Ekaterina is an associate in our banking and finance group. She regularly represents clients on financing transactions and has significant experience working on project finance, trade finance, acquisition finance and other secured financing transactions involving Russian and international companies and multilaterals, particularly in the oil and gas sector in Russia and the CIS. She also advises on a number of legal issues relating to banking, currency regulation, concession and PPP, security enforcement and corporate law.

Her recent experience includes:

• Advising Czech Export Bank on a secured financing transaction to a Russian energy generating company for construction and operation of a power plant, which transaction encompassed both ECA-backed and project finance elements;
• Member of the team representing, as common counsel, export credit agencies, multilateral lenders and commercial bank lenders in connection with the US$20 billion project financing of the Sakhalin II (Phase 2) Integrated Oil and Gas Project in Russia;
• Representing the sponsors and the project company, Nord Stream AG, in connection with the construction and financing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline project which runs from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea and the exclusive economic zones of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. This deal was named "2009 European Gas Deal of the Year" by Project Finance International;
• Advising BNP Paribas as the lender of record on a US$500 million refinancing of the construction of the Rusal Khakas aluminium smelter, the first aluminium production facility to be built in Russia in the past 20 years and the longest tenor project financing in Russia at that time. Infrastructure Journal called the project a "rarely-seen 'pure' project financing in the Russian market";
• Advising Goldman Sachs, as Mandated Lead Arranger, in connection with the provision of credit facilities to a Lion Capital LLC-incorporated SPV in connection with the acquisition of Russian juice manufacturer Nidan Soki, one of the first "LBO-type" acquisition finance transactions in Russia;
• Advising UniCredit Bank AG (then Bank Austria), Goldman Sachs, ING London and Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich, as Mandated Lead Arrangers, in connection with the US$315 million senior, leveraged financing for Lion Capital LLC as sponsor for the acquisition of Russian Alcohol Group, which transaction represented the second foreign sponsor-driven LBO in Russia, and was modeled on the Nidan Soki transaction;
• Advising ZAO UniCredit, as the documentary agent, and a syndicate of Russian and foreign banks on ruble denominated financing to Dixy Group, one of Russia's leading retailers of food and household supplies, of up to US$200 million in funds;
• Advising a syndicate of multilaters on €413 million in loans to MTS, the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS;
• Adivsing a Russian ferromolybdenum producer in connection with restructuring of its credit facilities with a syndicate of Russian and international banks;
• Representing Eurochem in US$1.3 billion pre-export facility from a syndicate of banks;
• Representing TNK-BP in US $1.5 billion corporate finance facility from a syndicate of banks; and
• Representing VTB Bank, Sberbank and Gazprombank in a project financing of LLC SeverEnergiya (a joint venture of Gazpromneft, Novatek, ENI and Enel) for the purpose of developing gas fields in the Russian north.

Bars and Courts
Qualified to practice law in the Russian Federation

Education
Master's Degree in Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Law Faculty, 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Law Faculty, 2007

Languages
Russian
English

Citizenship
Russian Federation