Financing for projects - Import export

The O2 Consulting experts provide legal support for transactions to raise equity and debt capital, project financing, debt restructuring, bank financing and asset securitisation. We also have vast experience in advising clients on currency regulation and currency control, licensing of banking activities and activities on the financial services and securities markets. O2 Consulting represents various market participants, including lenders and borrowers, financial advisers, securities issuers, guarantors and sureties.

The FinTech Practice was set up to provide legal support for innovative and high-tech business projects. We keep pace with the digital revolution, offering businesses the latest and most innovative legal solutions. We provide comprehensive support for high-tech projects and advise our clients in the following areas: Digital assets / crypto assets Digital financial instruments Artificial intelligence and machine learning Robotisation in business processes, trade and services Big Data – collection, turnover and management of massive data Internet of things / Industrial Internet of things Blockchain / Distributed ledger technology Information protection, cybersecurity Data storage, cloud solutions Digital technology, platforms, products and services Payment systems and e-commerce Social online platforms and applications Platforms for P2P payments and financing Crypto exchanges, crypto funds and crypto banks Investment / project financing / ICO Our team brings together top notch...

O2 Consulting has broad experience in cross-border transactions in M&A, restructuring, project financing and setting up JVs with Russian and foreign capital participation, and related to making foreign investments in Russia and Russian investments abroad. We provide our clients with comprehensive legal support through all stages of a cross-border transaction or set-up of a JV, from planning, asset due diligence, and corporate and tax structuring, to successful transaction closure and/or set-up of a JV. Our team is made up of lawyers holding diplomas from leading foreign and Russian universities, qualified under the US, Russian and English law, with experience of working with international law firms and leading Russian and foreign companies in a number of jurisdictions. Where necessary for a particular project, we outsource experts from our broad partner network - legal and consulting firms practising in other jurisdictions. We undertake to coordinate all matters related to...

Apart from legal services Westside offers the clients services in the scope of finance consulting, in particular, services on determination of the business real value and financial modeling. In the present section we offer the list of services provided by the firm within the financial consulting of the client. Services offered: Elaboration of a business plan for the most effective business development possible (At the same time a business plan is the main document provided to a credit institution for the purposes of financing); Services for search and selection of investors for the financing of project for business creation/development according to a business plan; Services for business valuation; Estimation of business acquisition proposals. Proposal of a fair price for business acquisition; Determination of a real price of business when selling the business; Estimation of risks included into the business acquisition price; Participation in negotiations in the capacity of...

Law firm AVELAN provides legal regulation all relations arising in the land law, including: •legal examination of the ground areas; •preparation of the documentation necessary for realization developer (green field) and redeveloper (brown field) projects; •reception and optimization of specifications; •structuration and realization of transactions on financing of developer projects, including with participation of foreign investors and-or in foreign jurisdictions; •support of transactions with the ground areas; •the permission of ground disputes in judicial and extrajudicial usages; •judicial recognition or contest of the rights to the ground areas; •legal protection of investments into projects, restoration of the lost property rights or removal of obstacles in realization of the rights to the ground areas; •registration of the ground areas under objects of the real estate.

Westside’s activities in finance sector includes provision of advice to banks and other banking institutions as well as provision of legal support to investment, construction and trade companies within the framework of project financing, financial risk management, receivables restructuring. Among the major projects of Westside in this area: Work in international team of law firms when structuring International Bank of Reconstruction and Development investments into a Russian-Ukrainian agro-industrial holding; Legal due diligence of an acquired bank (Top-20) on the purchaser’s part; Protection of bank owners and management at the stage of the bankruptcy proceedings; restructuring of a major agro-producer credit portfolio between two major Russian banks. Also Westside represents Russian and international financial and investment institutions’ interests in state courts and arbitration proceedings in Russia and abroad.