Ekaterina Larens (Matveychuk)

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About

Areas of FocusCorporate Real Estate Employment Intellectual Property Consumer Goods, Food and Retail Energy and Natural Resources Industrials Technology

Bar admissionsAdvocate registered with Advokatskaya Palata Moskovskoy Oblasti

EXPERIENCE

Advising a Lichtenstein foundation in connection with the disposal of residential real estate in the heart of Vienna and an internal restructuring, including contribution to the charter capital.
Advising a major European e-commerce company on a complex cross-border corporate restructuring, including mergers and granting of options to employees.
Advising an international investor on the purchase from a major bank consortium of the shares in the company holding agriculture complex.
Advising Italian client in connection with entering into the lease agreement and hotel management agreements with world famous Hotel operator in relation to four star hotel in the center of Milan.
Advising the Luxembourg fund in connection with acquisition of an office center building nestled in the heart of Islington, London (including finance aspects).
Advised Gazprom Export on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Centrex Europe & Energy Gas AG from Gazprombank.
Advising Renaissance Insurance Group, a Russian investment company, on the sale of its 100% stake in non-state pension fund Renaissance Pensions to the non-state pension fund of Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank.
Advising FFF Real Estate S.à.r.l., a subsidiary of FFF Fund I SCSp SICAV-RAIF, a multi-compartment-regulated Luxembourg fund managed by a Cyprus-based management company, on financing provided to a residential real estate developer for the acquisition and further development of a residential project in Hesperange (Luxembourg).
Advising FFF Real Estate S.à.r.l., a subsidiary of FFF Fund I SCSp SICAV-RAIF, a multi-compartment-regulated Luxembourg fund managed by a Cyprus-based management company, on financing provided to Luxembourg residential real estate developer for the acquisition and development of an O’Cite residential project in Luxembourg.
Advising Pfizer on its investment in, and collaboration with, the Russian pharmaceutical company NovaMedica, including licensing, manufacturing, supply and joint venture arrangements (voted "Deal of the Year 2017“ by industry peers at the Platinum Ounce awards, an annual Russian pharmaceutical industry awards ceremony).*

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Education

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics “Legal basis and legal practices of work with cryptocurrency and blockchain projects” (2019)

Insead course 2018 (Broadening Business Perspective Course)

Lomonosov Moscow State University (with honors), specialization: commercial law (2006)

Publications

Foreign Investment: Benefits of Austria’s Legal Environment for CIS Investors, CEE Legal Matters (May 2020)
Comments to the Bill on Personal Data Protection Regulation (June 2019)
Amendments to the Joint Stock Company Law (April 2016)

Prior Experience

2005-2019 – Senior Associate in the corporate practice of an international law firm, Moscow

Lecturing and charitable work

Memberships And Affiliations

Association of Russian lawyers, member of Commission for corporate law
Expert member of tender “Digital decisions for Regions” conducted by Agency of Strategic Initiatives