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ALEXANDER VARCHUK
Associate
Corporate and M&A
office + 7 495 540 47 12 avarchuk@samoylov.legal
Moscow
Education:
  • Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Bachelor’s degree, 2022
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Law, Master’s degree, 2024
Languages: Russian, English
  • more than 5 years of legal consulting experience at leading Russian law firms
  • specialisation: support of M&A transactions, creation of joint ventures, conducting due diligence and corporate restructuring
  • expertise including regulatory issues relating to M&A, as well as the structuring of personal asset ownership through private funds, closed unit investment funds and foreign corporate structures
  • represents clients in corporate disputes
  • PhD Candidate, works on the preparation of a Ph. D. dissertation in the field of corporate law
Selected experiences (significant projects)
Alexander has advised and represented:
  • a private investor in the acquisition of a controlling stake in one of Russia’s largest food producers
  • management of an international leasing company in connection with the buy-out of its Russian business from a foreign shareholder
  • shipping company operating in the Caspian Sea, in several transactions involving the acquisition of oil tankers, cargo vessels and supply ships
  • investment holding company in a joint acquisition with an institutional investor of a controlling stake in a leasing company ranked among Russia’s top 10 by portfolio size
  • founder of a fintech platform for the sale of insurance and credit products in a transaction to bring in Russia’s largest IT company as an investor
  • investment and construction holding company in structuring of corporate governance and implementing an investment project in a special economic zone
  • Russian airline during the buy-out of its fleet of aircraft used for scheduled flights
  • investment holding company operating in the CIS in connection with the buy-out of a minority shareholder’s stake as part of the resolution of a corporate dispute within a joint venture
  • shareholder of a major agricultural holding company in several corporate disputes concerning the procedure for forming the company’s governing bodies
  • shareholders of an oil production company in a series of corporate disputes arising from disagreements among the heirs of a deceased beneficial owner