Training in Moscow
Herbert Smith CIS has focused on deals, disputes and projects in Russia and its neighbouring states since 1992.
Our Moscow office offers advice on Russian, English and US law issues, providing a seamless cross-border legal service to clients through an 10 partner, 70+ legal staff Moscow presence. This capability is backed by our own international network of offices and further strengthened by our strategic alliance with German law firm, Gleiss Lutz, and Dutch and Belgian law firm, Stibbe.
The key areas of expertise of the practice are:
- corporate
- finance and banking
- projects
- capital markets
- dispute resolution
- real estate
Our corporate team has significant sectoral expertise in the energy, natural resources and telecoms areas and has also worked on numerous joint ventures, intellectual property licence agreements, contracts for construction and infrastructure projects, financing agreements and transactions involving the sale of goods and services. We acted on the second biggest foreign investment in the Russian oil sector.
Our finance and banking team has extensive experience of advising clients on structured financing, big ticket leasing, syndicated lending and project financing in all the major sectors of the Russian economy, including energy and natural resources, telecoms, finance, heavy industry and technology sectors. Members of our team have worked on the largest project financings and the largest insolvencies.