Ekaterina is an associate in our corporate group who advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial law matters, including joint ventures and M&A transactions. She has experience assisting both Russian and international companies in conducting due diligence reviews and structuring transactions in Russia and throughout the CIS.

Her recent experience includes: 

• Advising Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, on a potential joint acquisition, together with Magna International, of a 55 percent interest in Adam Opel GmbH and its subsidiaries in a number of European countries including Russia, from the US automobile producer General Motors Company; 
• Advising Atria Group, an international food processing company, on its €75 million acquisition of the Russian meat processing company Campomos from Campofrio Alimentacion, a Spanish company; 
• Advising Bank Hapoalim on its acquisition of 78 percent of SDM Bank, the first acquisition of a Russian bank by an Israeli bank; 
• Advising Bombardier Transportation, a leader in the global rail sector, on establishing three joint ventures with Transmashholding, Russia's largest manufacturer of rolling stock and Russian Railways' main supplier; 
• Advising MIH on the acquisition of Russian television and broadcasting businesses and of an interest in the Russian internet portal Port.ru; and
• Representing Societe Generale in a record-setting US$2.3 billion, multi-stage acquisition of Rosbank, Russia's top private consumer bank, from the Interros Group.

Bars and Courts
Qualified to practice law in the Russian Federation

Education
Law Degree, Moscow State University, 2006
DEA, University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, 2002

Languages
Russian
English
French

Citizenship
Russian Federation