Real Estate & Construction

Advised X5 Group on acquiring Victoria Baltia, which operates Victoria food stores in Moscow and in the Moscow and Kaliningrad Regions and on sale of the real estate assets to a third-party investor and leaseback of premises within the sold assets. The due diligence covered 118 stores with a total commercial space of 92 thousand square metres, including leased premises.

Advised Tinkoff Group on a project to lease a Class A office with an area of almost 78,000 sq. m. at the AFI Square Business Centre under construction on Gruzinsky Val to accommodate the Group's headquarters, including all its core subdivisions, such as Tinkoff Bank, Tinkoff Insurance, Tinkoff Mobile, Tinkoff Development Centre and others. This deal is the biggest office lease ever on the Moscow office real estate market.

Advised Capital Group on acquiring a site from the Moscow Government and a joint venture for developing a multi-use complex located on Balchug Island in the very centre of Moscow (also known as Golden Island) with investment of around RUB 25-30 bn (approx. USD 600 million).

Advised VK Group on acquiring the 27-storey, 49,290 sq. m. Skylight tower on Moscow’s Leningradsky Prospect. According to assessments by Real Estate market experts, the transaction was the biggest on the office market since the beginning of 2023.

Advised a JV structure on a series of EPC contracts and related documentation for Tushino Waterfront Mixed-Use Development (the largest innovation cluster in Russia, including residential properties, a stadium, sports and social infrastructure, research and educational facilities, and recreation zones of approximately 1 million sq. m) with an investment of about USD 1.5 bn.

Legal support for acquisition by PAO Tatneft of industrial rubber plant Birinchi Rezinotekhnika Zavodi, Angren, Republic of Uzbekistan, from state-owned companies of Uzbekistan.