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Practice Experience

Olga Okouneva is a member of the Moscow office capital markets team. She has seven years of experience in various international and domestic capital markets and finance transactions, consulting on securities issues, corporate and banking law, and currency regulation.

Olga's recent experience includes:

Acting for JSCB Moscow Business World (MDM Bank) in relation to the debut and tap offerings by MDM DPR Finance Company S.A. of the notes funding secured loans to MDM Bank under the program for securitization of the diversified payment rights (DPRs) by MDM Bank co-arranged by Dresdner Bank and Merrill Lynch;
Acting for OJSC Alfa Bank (Alfa Bank), the largest private bank in Russia, in relation to the debut and repeat offerings by Alfa Diversified Payment Rights Finance Company S.A. of the notes funding secured loans to Alfa Bank under the program for securitization of the Alfa Bank’s DPRs co-arranged by Dresdner Bank and Merrill Lynch;
Representing Gazprombank in connection with the offering of RUR 10 billion 7.25 per cent loan participation notes due 2010, the first fully convertible Russian ruble Eurobond issued in the international markets by a Russian borrower, arranged by ABN Amro and Barclays Capital;
Representing Deutsche Bank as dealer-manager and tender agent in connection with a cash offer by Jenington International to purchase common shares (including American Depositary Shares) of OJSC Polyus Gold, the leading gold producer in Russia, whereby Jenington acquired 17,241,379 common shares (including ADSs), representing 9 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares of Polyus Gold, for an aggregate purchase price of $1 billion;
Advising Societe Generale in relation to a multi-stage acquisition of a stake in Rosbank, Russia’s top private consumer bank, from Interros group;
Acting for Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch as lead managers of the first securitization of credit card receivables in Russia, in a $225 million international bond issue made by Rosbank followed by a $75 million tap offering;
Representing the City of Moscow acting through the State Debt Committee of the City of Moscow in connection with the issuance of EUR 374 million loan participation notes due 2011;
Advising Gazprombank on a Regulation S offering of $1 billion 6.5 per cent notes due 2015 by GPB Eurobond Finance plc, funding the loan to Gazprombank;
Representing a Russian gold mining company in relation to a proposed initial public offering of its shares on the London Stock Exchange and Russian Trading System;
Advising Gazprombank on a Regulation S $750 million Eurobond offering and a tap offering of USD 300 million Eurobonds;
Representing TNK-BP in establishment of MTN Programme arranged by, and the drawdowns thereunder, including an inaugural two-tranche offering of the notes in an aggregate amount of $1.5 billion;
Advising a major Russian aluminum company in relation to proposed securitisation of export trade receivables under a Regulation S offering of secured notes;
Representing UBS Limited as a sole bookrunner and lead manager of the Regulation S issue of $1 billion loan participation notes by UBS Luxembourg S.A. funding the loan to the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation (Sberbank), the largest bank in Central and Eastern Europe;
Advising Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) on a $400 million Eurobond issue including a Rule 144A tranche and its fungible (Regulation S) $300 million Eurobond issue;
Advising ABN AMRO and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as lead managers in the debut issue of OAO Oil Company Rosneft Eurobonds, including a Rule 144A tranche (the first issue of Russian corporate Eurobonds since the 1998 crisis); and
Advising Deutsche Bank acting as a lead manager in establishing Gazprombank's debut EUR 300 million EMTN program (the first capital markets deal of a Russian bank since the 1998 crisis).

Bars and Courts
Qualified to practice law in the Russian Federation, 1999

Education
Law Degree, International Law Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, 1999

Languages
English
Russian

Citizenship
Russia Federation