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Sergey Komolov

Sergey Komolov

Partner, NY Law Qualified

Transactional
Sergey Komolov is a Partner in our Corporate/M&A practice. Sergey focuses on corporate transactions, regulatory matters and financing both in Russia and abroad and has multi-year experience in advising clients on acquisitions, joint ventures, public and private financing, banking and corporate restructurings, and general corporate and transactional matters. Sergey participated in innovative M&A transactions and restructurings and other complex projects in Russia and abroad. His clients include major Russian companies.
Sergey also has vast experience in cross-border court and arbitration proceedings and handling major cases in London, New York and other jurisdictions.
+7 495 139 15 00
skomolov@dgpartners.legal
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Projects

Qualification

Representing several major Russian banks on asset acquisition deals, complex structured financing, mezzanine financing and other transactions.

Corporate Law

Representing the first-ever contractual financial restructuring of a major Russian bank.

Corporate Law

Representing Global Payments Group with various corporate matters and the sale of their Russian business.

Corporate Law

Representing Citibank on the first-ever Islamic financing deal in Russia.

Corporate Law Private Equity and Venture Capital

Advising Yandex on a complex transaction involving the acquisition of the Delivery Club service from VK and the sale of the Dzen and News services to VK, including target due diligence.

Mergers and Acquisitions Corporate Law IP & Tech

Representing an international oil trading group on oil supply framework agreements

Corporate Law

Representing one of the largest Russian industrial groups in the resources sector in connection with several joint ventures and asset acquisitions.

Corporate Law Mergers and Acquisitions

Representing an investor in the first-ever acquisition of renewable energy assets by a foreign non-energy company.

Mergers and Acquisitions Corporate Law

Representing URALSIB Financial Corporation on a comprehensive corporate restructuring.

Corporate Law

Representing two major Western corporations with the legal aspects of greenfield projects in Russia.

Corporate Law

Sergey’s expertise includes transaction and project support as well as regulatory practice.

Previously, Sergey was a partner and head of the Moscow office of the international law firm King & Spalding. Before that, he headed the legal department of one of the largest banks in Russia, where he oversaw complex projects and transactions, including private and syndicated loans, transactions with bonds and promissory notes, securities and derivatives, structured finance deals, establishment of investment funds, securitizations, and bank mergers. Thanks to his experience working in the Legal Department of the World Bank, Sergey understands the rules and practices of international financial institutions. Before beginning his legal career, Sergey had a distinguished career in the Russian diplomatic service. He is the author of several articles on legal and political issues published in leading international and Russian journals.

Areas of specialization

Corporate Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Regulatory

Education

1996

LL.M., Georgetown University, cum laude

1982

International Lawyer, Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), cum laude

Admission to practice

1997 - New York
1982 - Russia

Languages

Russian
English
French

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