Evgeny LevinskyEvgeny.Levinsky@salomons.com
Mr. Levinsky co-heads the firms’ corporate M&A and TMT practices with particular emphasize on real estate, natural resources, telecom and media companies. Before becoming one of the founding members of Salomon Partners, Mr. Levinsky worked as a senior attorney in a prominent Russian law firm Monastyrsky, Zyuba, Stepanov & Partners. Mr. Levinsky graduated from the faculty of law at St. Petersburg State University and is a fluent English speaker.
The major projects on which Mr. Levinsky has worked recently include:
- Corporate Law:
- Performing legal due diligence on an independent gas company and providing legal consultation for a large Russian gas company concerning its acquisition;
- Acquisition of a leading Russian pharmaceutical manufacturer by German investors, including legal support for corporate decisions made after the transaction (cf. buy-out of minority shareholders, consolidation of affiliated companies, etc.);
- Providing legal support for the acquisition of group of companies publishing telephone directories in Moscow and Saint Petersburg;
- Performing legal due diligence on several agricultural enterprises of an international agricultural holding;
- Acquisition of a group of factories producing baby food;
- Providing legal council and subsequent legal support for the acquisition of several timber industry companies;
- Providing legal council and subsequent legal support for the acquisition of a leading the bank in the Novosibirsk region;
- Restructuring a foreign direct investment fund specializing in the oil and gas industries in Russia and CIS countries;
- Developing a plan and legal mechanism for the corporate restructuring of a holding owning real estate objects in Moscow, the Moscow area and other Russian regions;
- Integration of several aviation enterprises and their assets into a single organizational and legal entity;
- Defending the minority shareholder interests of a foreign investment fund in a Russian oil company.
- Project and Debt Financing:
- Structuring of lease financing transactions;
- Preparation and legal support of a project for granting allocated credit to a leading home appliance sales and production group in the Russian Far East and performing legal due diligence on these companies.
- Real Estate:
- Developing a legal mechanism for the attraction of investments into construction utilizing a real estate private equity fund;
- Investments into one of the first Russian designated industrial zones.