Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• English
• Russian

Lawyer Overview

Maria Ankoudinova concentrates on M&A and capital markets transactions involving Russia. Her experience includes advising corporate clients, financial institutions, and investment funds on acquiring equity interests in one of the world's largest aluminum smelters, a major Russian paper and pulp producer, and a number of major Russian and Ukrainian broadcasting and telecommunications companies. Her experience also includes work on an SEC-registered public offering of convertible notes and American Depositary Shares by a leading Russian provider of wireless telecommunications services listed on the NYSE and representation of a NYSE-listed Russian leading telecommunications operator in connection with its SEC filings.

Maria's recent experience includes representation of Alfa Group in the $3.3 billion joint venture with the Cukurova Group to hold 27 percent of Turkcell, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft in connection with its Russian Regional Jet project, and TNK-BP in connection with the Kovykta gas project.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Antitrust & Competition Law

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Amafilter
• Acquisition of an indirect equity interest
• Acquisition of Gillette
• Acquisition of Manros
• Acquisition of Turkcell , (2005)
• Bridge Facility Agreement
• Georgia Pacific Merger
• Joint venture with Sinopec
• Kovykta Gas Sales and Transportation Project
• Loan to Sunbird Limited
• Russian Regional Jet Project (RRJ)

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Deceptive Trade Practices, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Antitrust, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, RICO Act, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Trade Regulation, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• Russia

Education

• Moscow Inst of Int'l Relations

Address

Ducat III, 12th Floor
6 Gasheka Street
125047 Moscow, Russia

Phones

7.495.648.9215 (Business Phone)

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