Liniya Prava has advised the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the placing of three issues of government bonds series 01, 07, and 11 for a total amount of RUB 40 billion.

CMS and Arsov Natchev Ganeva have advised contractor Arkad on the completion of the Balkan Stream Gas Pipeline project, which was completed at the end of December, 2020. Dentons’s Dubai office, KPMG Legal and Tsvetkova Bebov Komarevski in Bulgaria, and Latham & Watkins in Russia reportedly also advised the contractor on the deal. Linklaters’s London office, reportedly assisted by DGKV in Bulgaria, advised unspecified lenders on financing for the project. 

Dentons’s St. Petersburg office has advised the Zyfra Group on its establishment of a joint venture with Gazprom Neft PJSC.

Noerr has advised Switzerland's Evoco AG on the acquisition of six subsidiaries of Gesco AG from Wuppertal. 

Rybalkin Gortsunyan Partners has advised the shareholders of the Uchi.ru educational platform on the sale of a 25% stake in the platform, with an option of an increase to a controlling interest, to the Mail.ru Group and a consortium of investors formed by the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Russia-China Investment Fund. DLA Piper reportedly advised the buyers.

Gowling WLG has become a pro bono legal advisor to the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow.

Orrick’s multi-office team has advised JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft on its USD 1 billion sale, lease, and financing of a fleet of 31 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircrafts to Ireland’s CityJet.

Dmitry Lyubomudrov has been appointed Managing Partner at Andrey Gorodissky & Partners.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has advised the ESN Group on the design and construction of a methanol plant in the Amur Region in Russia.

TGS Baltic and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner have advised the Mubadala Investment Company on investment in MEL Science — part of the latter's USD 14 million Series B funding round.

Revera has advised My.Games on its investments in Belarusian game development studios Mamboo Games, Appyfurious, and Purple Games. 

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Moscow office has advised Gazpromneft-Snabzhenie on the establishment of the Isource joint venture with Gazprombank.

Akin Gump has advised Equinor on its USD 550 million acquisition of a 49% stake in KrasGeoNaC from Rosneft. Linklaters’s Moscow office advised the seller on the deal.

Noerr has advised Axion Cyprus Holding Limited, a holding company of Russia's Softline Group, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Softline AG, a company listed on the open market segment of the Dusseldorf stock exchange, from its current major shareholder, Baden-Baden-based S.K. Management-und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. Houthoff Cooperatief and August Debouzy also advised Axion on the deal, which is expected to close before March 31, 2021.

DLA Piper’s Moscow office has advised Sberbank Investments on its provision of a RUB 2 billion secured mezzanine loan to a Russian construction company Avtoban to finance the construction of Startup Facilities No 3 and No 4 of the Central Ring Road in the Moscow Region. 

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Moscow office has advised Teva on the sale of a pharmaceutical company located in the Yaroslavl Industrial Park to Russia’s R-Pharm Group.

Since 22 October 2018, the assets of several hundred mostly Ukrainian persons which are located in Russia have been frozen based on Presidential Decree 592 of 22 October 2018 (“Presidential Decree 592”) and Governmental Order 1300 of 1 November 2018 (“Governmental Order 1300”). To date, these and other sanctions against Ukraine are the only measures which have been taken under Federal Law 127-FZ “On measures (counter-measures) in response to unfriendly actions of the United States [...]” of 4 June 2018.

Already suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia has been heavily affected by the volatility of the ruble, Western sanctions, and the price of oil, notes Torsten Syrbe, Partner at Clifford Chance in Moscow.