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Practice Experience

Maya specializes in bank finance and mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector. With White & Case Moscow since 1993, she has in-depth experience in international transactions related to the Russian Federation. Maya is ranked among the top banking and finance lawyers in Russia by Chambers Global and PLC Which Lawyer?. Although Maya concentrates on financial and capital markets institutions, she has also advised on numerous M&A transactions involving non-financial Russian assets, particularly in the real estate and natural resources sectors.

Maya's recent experience includes:

Representing Societe Generale in a record-setting $2.3 billion, multi-stage acquisition of Rosbank, Russia's top private consumer bank, from the Interros Group;
Representing the EBRD and IFC in numerous debt and equity investments in the Russian banking, infrastructure, natural resources and manufacturing sectors;
Representing European and Russian lenders in Russian real estate financings, including offices, shopping centers, warehouses, hotels and mixed-use developments;
Advising the developer of the Moskva Hotel, a historic building near Red Square and the Kremlin, on hotel operating agreements with the Four Seasons and an $800 million financing of the building's redevelopment by Deutsche Bank;
Representing Capital Partners in the acquisition and financing of various office, hotel and warehouse assets in the Russia, including Moscow's Ritz Carlton Hotel and the Metropolis retail and office complex; and
Representing Duferco in the $530 million sale of its stake in a Russian electromagnetic steel producer to Novolipetsk Steel.

Bars and Courts
District of Columbia Bar, 2009
California State Bar, 1990

Education
JD, Harvard Law School, 1990
BA, Economics, Harvard University, 1987

Publications
"Russian law specifics for foreign investors," a chapter in the informational almanac "Commercial Office Real Estate in Russia," co-authored with Vladislav Ivanov, and Natalia Makarova, Alpina Business Books 2007
"A chance for an alternative: Issues in assignment of receivables in the context of securitization," Vestnik NAUFOR (a Russian-language publication), 2005, No. 3, co-authored with Elena Stepanenko
"Legal issues in securitization in Russia," Rynok tsennyh bumag (a Russian-language publication), 2003, No. 3 (234), co-authored with Ekaterina Sushkova

Languages
English
French
Russian

Citizenship
United States