The Competition teams of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners in Moscow and Kiev have successfully represented Dole Food Company CEO David Murdoch in his request for regulatory approval in those countries for his purchase of the final 60% of the shares in the company.
Completing the USD 1.6 billion deal that closed in November 2013, the final acquisition now gives Murdoch's DFC Holdings control over all 100% of the shares.
EPAM lawyers representing David Murdoch on the deal included Associates Elena Kazak, Ksenia Firsova, Kristina Kokina, Oksana Franko and Nadezhda Dmitrenko, all supervised by Natalia Korosteleva, Partner and the Head of the Antimonopoly Practice at the Moscow Office, and Oksana Ilchenko, Partner and the Head of Corporate/M&A and the Antimonopoly practices of the firm's Kiev Office.
