Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has advised Avito Jobs on its USD 1.2 million investment in HR Messenger. Centil reportedly advised Avito as well. ProVidens reportedly advised HR Messenger.
According to BCLP, "this is the first deal of this magnitude involving chatbot design companies. HR Messenger will use the investment to develop its business and take on more staff."
Avito Jobs is a technology-based online platform for job seekers and recruiters. Avito is an advertisement marketplace, with 86 million active advertisements posted on its website in December 2021.
Founded in Kazakhstan in 2018, HR Messenger specializes in HR tasks and streamlines workflows using its own chatbot-building technologies.
The BCLP team was led by Associate Director Vera Gorbacheva and included Partner Anton Sitnikov, Senior Associate Dimitri Antipin, Associate Ayta Aduchieva, Junior Associate Elena Naumova, and Paralegals Gleb Aleksandrov and Mikhail Kuznetsov.
