Anastasia Buryak

Associate, Astana

Biography

Overview

Anastasia is an Associate in our Capital Markets practice in Astana. She has experience representing issuers and underwriters on a range of cross-border capital markets transactions, including initial and secondary equity offerings, debt offerings and liability management exercises.

Anastasia has also experience in merger and acquisitions transactions and advising on a wide range of corporate matters, including corporate governance.

Prior to joining White & Case Anastasia has worked at one of the leading international law firms.

Bars and Courts
Qualified to practice law in the Russian Federation
Education
Master's Degree in Law
Higher School of Economics
Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Higher School of Economics
Languages
Russian
English

Experience

Equity:

Advising Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives of the underwriters, on Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz's US$1 billion initial public offering (IPO) and listing on Nasdaq.

Advising Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan and VTB Capital as joint global coordinators and bookrunners, BCS Global Markets as a senior bookrunner, and Renaissance Capital, SberCIB, SOVA Capital, Tinkoff and ATON as joint bookrunners in connection with the RUB17.7 billion (approx. US$250 million) initial public offering of ordinary shares by Renaissance Insurance Group, a Russian diversified independent insurance company, with listing on the Moscow Exchange. The offering is the first fully marketed international IPO of a Russian insurance company.

Advising J.P. Morgan, VTB Capital and UBS as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners and Gazprombank as a joint bookrunner in connection with the US$275 million secondary offering of global depositary receipts of ROS AGRO, a leading Russian diversified agricultural holding with vertically integrated operations in the agriculture, oil and fat, sugar, and meat markets, listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Moscow Exchange.

Advising Citigroup Global Markets Limited, J.P. Morgan AG and VTB Capital plc acting as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners on the US$500 million initial public offering of United Medical Group CY, Russia's leading multidisciplinary premium-class healthcare services provider operating under the European Medical Center brand, on the Moscow Exchange (July 2021). This transaction is the first to be conducted under the new Russian legislative framework, which provides issuers with flexibility in listing GDRs only on a Russian stock exchange, without a primary listing on a foreign venue.

Debt:

Advising Credit Bank of Moscow as borrower in connection with standalone eurobond offerings, including:

  • Issue of US$350 million perpetual callable loan participation notes (October 2021);
  • Issue of US$500 million loan participation notes due 2026 (September 2021);
  • Issue of €600 million loan participation notes due 2026, dual listed on Euronext Dublin and the Vienna Stock Exchange (January 2021).

Banking & Finance:

Advising Citibank, N.A. and Banco Santander S.A. – New York Branch, as lenders, in connection with a term loan facility of CHF477,691,793.25 ($621 million) to National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC covered by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) under its Non-Honoring of Financial Obligations of Sovereign Owned Enterprises Guarantee.

M&A/Corporate:

Advising Sberbank Investments on the acquisition of a 50% interest in Mayak LLC and Prima LLC, which implemented projects related to the construction of a five-star hotel and deluxe apartments at the Fairmont & Vesper residential complex and the premium-class Lucky Residential Quarter. *

Advising Kopy Goldfields AB (publ) in connection with its entry into a conditional agreement with HC Alliance Mining Group Ltd and Lexor Group SA under which Kopy Goldfields is to acquire 100% of the shares in Amur Gold Company Limited, a medium-sized gold producing company based in Russia, through a reverse takeover. *

Advising Mubadala Investment Company's transactions in Russia, in particular: *

  • Acquisition of a 49% share in a company, which owns the Galleria shopping center, one of the largest shopping malls in St. Petersburg, from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund;
  • Acquisition, together with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, of a share in Russian Fitness Group, which operates a large chain of fitness clubs in Russia under the World Class brand; and
  • Acquisition, together with a consortium of investors, including the Russian Direct Investment Fund, of a share in ivi, one of Russia's largest online video streaming companies (the consortium's total investment amounted to US$40 million).

* Experience prior to joining White & Case