Stephenson Harwood LLP CIS Group Awards and accolades: Ranked as the Leading Foreign CIS Desk in Dispute Resolution – Chambers Global 2014 Operational Risk & Regulation Law Firm of the Year – Operational Risk and & Regulation Magazine 2014 Financial Services Disputes Law Firm of the Year (Hong Kong) – Acquisition International 2014 Civil and Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year (Hong Kong) – Finance Monthly Global Award 2014 Litigation and Arbitration Law Firm of the Year 2014 (Dubai) – ACQ5 Global Awards 2014 Maritime Law Firm of the Year 2014 (Dubai) – ACQ5 Global Awards 2014 Rail Finance Law Firm of the Year – The Global Transport Finance Awards 2013 Litigation and Regulatory Firm of the Year – British Legal Awards (Legal Week) 2012 Litigation Team of the Year – The Lawyer Awards 2012 Best Regulatory Law Firm – Thomson Reuters’ Annual Compliance Awards 2012 Asset and Corporate Finance Deal of the Year – Asian Legal Business Awards 2012 Corporate Finance Firm of the Year – Corporate International Awards 2012 We can help you with: Commercial litigation and asset tracing Arbitration Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and legal advice on conduct of business Regulatory and criminal investigations International sanctions Energy Real estate and construction Stephenson Harwood is a full service international law firm, with over 120 partners and 700 staff worldwide. We have nine offices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East: Beijing, Dubai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Piraeus, Shanghai and Singapore. We are exceptionally strong in China, our presence is growing rapidly in the Middle East and we have strong business links in Africa and South-East Asia. Through our offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and a long established network of lawyers around the world, we provide our clients with commercially-focused legal advice across the globe. Our CIS Group provides a wide range of legal services in various jurisdictions to our clients from post-USSR countries, as well as to our international clients on CIS related matters. Our team of lawyers is multilingual. A profound understanding of the region’s business environment allows us to meet and surpass our clients’ expectations. Asset, project finance and PPP Funds and financial services Tax and wealth management Insurance Maritime and international trade EU and UK competition Our objective is to provide high quality legal services in a cost effective way and adopts a bespoke approach to reflect our clients’ individual business needs. Representative experience Members of our team have advised: Mergers and acquisitions Asset tracing Kernel – on a US$260 million joint venture between this leading global commodities company and a Ukrainian agribusiness to acquire a major processing facility on the Black Sea Arab Republic of Egypt – in relation to the recovery of assets misappropriated by former president Hosni Mubarak, successfully tracing assets on a global scale and working with governments across many jurisdictions Rusal Limited – on its US$30 billion merger with Sual and the assets of Glencore International, to form United Company Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer First Investment Bank – on its acquisition of the Bulgarian bank, MKB Unionbank EAD, from a Hungarian subsidiary of Bayerische Landesbank. Following the acquisition, First Investment Bank’s assets are valued at approximately £3.6 billion Energy CEZ Group – on a €1.1 billion development of one of the largest on-shore wind farms in Europe Motor Oil Hellas – on its €250 million acquisition of Shell’s downstream business in Greece including 700 petrol stations, requiring EU competition clearances Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Limited – on an agreement signed with the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to assist in the development of the country’s hydrocarbons sector and on an equity investment of US$50 million from the private equity investment company Winter Sky Finance European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – on the financing of the manufacture of Tupolev 20C aircraft at the Aviastar facility in Ulyanovsk Lion Air – on its acquisition of 230 Boeing 737 aircraft, valued at US$22 billion. This remains the largest aircraft order Bank of China – on a US$517 million loan to Pacific International to finance 14 container ships built in China. This was the first ship financing backed by Sinosure lease insurance policies, and was described by Trade Finance magazine as ‘a landmark for ship finance’ Funds KPMG – in relation to the launch of a US$300 million closedend fund focused on CIS region opportunities Taiga Asset Management – on a transaction involving the reconstruction and internalisation of the management company, together with its employees, to form part of Varyag Resources AB Commercial litigation UBS/Sociéte Générale – on claims arising out of a €2.3 billion syndicated loan to finance an acquisition brought by Germany’s motorway services giant, Tank & Rast AirAsia – in respect of a multi-million dollar claim brought against them by lessor Babcock & Brown arising out of the delayed redelivery of an aircraft Arbitration Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation – on the enforcement in London of a US$300 million plus award made in Nigeria Government of Bolivia and Entel – in relation to an unlimited freezing order made against them. This was in support of ICSID arbitration proceedings brought against the Republic of Bolivia by Telecom Italia (ETI) following the announcement by Bolivia that ETI’s shares in Entel would be expropriated. We acted for Bolivia in successfully discharging the freezing order Insurance Ingosstrakh – on multimillion recovery proceedings in relation to an insurance claim brought in an African country Sanctions Bank Melli – on the impact of the EU and UK sanctions legislation on its business Two of the largest Russian state-owned banks – on the effects on their businesses of rapidly developing EU sanctions in relation to Ukraine Maritime and international trade Russian FGUP – on the hire of cruise ships to provide accommodation facilities at the forthcoming Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Drafted and negotiated contracts for the hire, operation and commercialisation of the cruise ships as floatels Competition Vitol BV – on the joint acquisition by Vitol BV and Grindrod Limited of Cockett Marine Oil (one of the leading value added resellers and physical marine fuel suppliers in the world), including securing a Phase I clearance from the European Commission and South African competition authority Tax and wealth management HSH Nordbank – on a complex tax lease financing for four 7,500 TEU containerships chartered to A.P. Moller – Maersk Group combining a German tonnage tax structure with a UK tax lease structure Real estate and construction St. Martins Property Group – on the £400 million acquisition of the iconic Willis Building, one of the largest asset transactions in the City of London in 2008 Lloyds Banking Group – advised on an £80 million loan facility to a property fund with an underlying property portfolio valued at £400 million www.shlegal.com Contacts London Dubai Tatiana Minaeva, Head of Russia and CIS group, commercial litigation Direct line + 44 20 7809 2035 Email [email protected] Rovine Chandrasekera, MIT Direct line 00 971 4 386 2105 Email [email protected] Roland Foord, Commercial litigation Direct line +44 20 7809 2315 Email [email protected] William Saunders, Mergers and acquisitions, funds and financial services Direct line + 44 20 7809 2138 Email [email protected] Ian Mace, Yacht finance and corporate jet finance Direct line +44 20 7809 2653 Email [email protected] Sara George, Regulatory and criminal investigations Direct line +44 20 7809 2338 Email [email protected] Hong Kong Andrew Rigden Green, Litigation Direct line +852 2533 2761 Email [email protected] Paris Patrick Mousset, Corporate Direct line +33 144158078 Email [email protected] Singapore Matthew Gorman, Corporate Direct line +65 6622 9687 Email [email protected] Peter Bennett, Maritime and international trade Direct line +44 20 7809 2665 Email [email protected] Hugo Jenney, Tax and wealth management Direct line + 44 20 7809 2186 Email [email protected] © Stephenson Harwood LLP 2014. 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