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Cross-border M&A: Russia poses special challenges

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Russia
  • -
  • June 21 2007

The recent announcement by Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. that it would form a partnership with Russia-based industrial chemical manufacturer OAO Shchekinoazot has called fresh attention to the opportunities posed by Russian investment

Strategic field poison pill need to reconsider joint venture agreements

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • January 29 2009

Legislative developments have created a very uncertain position in the event of a strategic field classification and this needs to be factored into existing investments for exploration of potentially large deposits

Emerging from the crisis?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • June 17 2009

When will private equity and venture capital in Russia and the CIS emerge from the current economic crisis and how different will the industry be when they do?

Russian-Venezuelan intergovernmental agreement on encouragement and mutual protection of capital investments ratified by Russia

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Russia, Venezuela
  • -
  • October 23 2009

The Russian-Venezuelan intergovernmental agreement on the encouragement and mutual protection of capital investments, signed in Caracas on November 7, 2008, has been ratified by Russia pursuant to Federal Law No. 221-FZ, "On Ratification of the Agreement by and Between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the Encouragement and Mutual Protection of Capital Investments," dated September 27, 2009

Court orders seizure of Telenor stake in Vimpelcom

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Russia
  • -
  • March 20 2009

Telenor’s ongoing legal battle with Russia’s Alfa Group took a dramatic turn this week, as a Siberian court froze Telenor’s stake in Russian wireless operator Vimpelcom after the Norwegian carrier refused to pay a US $1.7 billion claim that was ordered by the same court last month

Vimpelcom to purchase Golden Telecom for $4.3 billion

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • December 28 2007

Vimpelcom, the second-largest wireless operator in Russia, agreed last Friday to purchase Golden Telecom (GT) in a $4.3 billion transaction that, according to the companies, will create “the first fully integrated telecom service provider across Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.”

Structuring private equity investments in Russia

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • October 21 2010

With the gradual recovery of the global economy, private equity houses are once again looking towards emerging markets for value investments

Russia adopts law to counteract corporate raiding

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • December 27 2010

Corporate raiding has been a widespread problem in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, undermining confidence within the corporate community and negatively affecting the investment climate

New laws introduced in advance of new privatization initiative

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • October 1 2010

The Russian government has recently unveiled a plan to sell stakes in several major state-owned companies over the next five years to private investors with a goal of raising funds to cover budget deficits and to reduce the state's presence in the economy

A legal overview to foreign investments in Russia's strategic sectors

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • March 28 2011

This note gives an overview of Russia's regulatory regime for foreign investments into strategic sectors of Russian industry

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