Eric specializes in corporate law and arbitration dispute resolution, including cross-border disputes.

He works with projects related to foreign clients and offices in terms of cross-border transactions and deals.

Russian State University of Justice named after V.M. Lebedev

Master of Laws

Diplomas with honors

The topic of the thesis: “Legal qualification of a distribution agreement in the system of Russian and international contract law. Distinguishing it from related contractual constructions”.

• Comprehensive legal support of an oil refinery construction project in one of the CIS countries with total investments of over $800 million. In the course of the project, a corporate structure of the business was prepared, transactions on acquisition of shares by foreign members were conducted, a corporate agreement was drafted and negotiated. A separate area of work was operational support in terms of compliance with local regulatory requirements, as well as organization of contracting with foreign equipment suppliers.
• Establishment of a joint (Russian-Indian) industrial venture in India with an initial investment of $10 million. In the course of the project, a corporate structure was established, tax and corporate aspects were worked out, and corporate relations between Russian and Indian partners were established. In the course of the project, the advisers provided support in negotiating and establishing agreements between the parties on a balanced corporate governance system.
• Advising a Chinese company on the use of industrial designs and patents in the Russian Federation in the context of the client's IPO. The corporate law practice together with the intellectual property law practice provided comprehensive support in drafting a set of documents protecting the uniqueness of the Chinese company's developments.
• Advising the largest foreign manufacturer of paint and varnish products in Russia on setting up a Russian-Chinese joint venture. In the course of the project, a corporate structure was established in China, corporate agreements were made and the track of initial financing was determined. The project was implemented in cross-companion with Chinese advisers and the application of Chinese and Russian law.
• Establishment of a corporate holding structure in Hong Kong for the purposes of procurement activities of one of the largest Russian suppliers of equipment in the energy sector.
• Support of the establishment of a corporate structure in the Kyrgyz Republic and organization of banking services for a subsidiary of a major international oil and gas engineering company.
• Support for obtaining authorization from the Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment in the Russian Federation for the sale and purchase of an interest in a major international computer hardware and software trading company to Russian top management.
• Support for obtaining authorization from the Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment in the Russian Federation for liquidation of a Russian company which is a part of a US holding company engaged in computer software development.
• Advising a foreign provider of IT integration solutions on obtaining permission from the Government Commission of the Russian Federation for intra-group restructuring of a corporate structure which includes legal entities both in Russia and in the Czech Republic.
• Representation of a minority shareholder in a dispute on joint recovery of over RUB 500 million in damages from the CEO and majority shareholder of a major Russian fishing company in connection with the siphoning off of the company's assets.
• Participation in corporate structuring of an international holding company operating in the field of ionizing radiation sources.
• Successful support of a subcontractor dispute on recovery of a debt from an Italian company, during which it was possible to prove the exclusive jurisdiction of the Russian court in accordance with Article 248.1 of the Arbitration Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, despite the arbitration clause established by the parties to transfer all disputes to the ICC (Paris) and the applicable Belarusian law.
• Participation in a project to defend the client's interests in a dispute with Chinese companies - the bailor and owners of several thousand sea containers. A contract for storage of containers was made between a logistics complex and the bailor. As a result, the Moscow Arbitration Court considered a dispute between TLK on recovery of 300 million rubles and accepted a counterclaim from the bailor demanding the transfer of 3.5 thousand containers to the bailor. As a result of a number of negotiations we managed to agree on the positions of all parties to the dispute and terminate the case on terms satisfactory to the client.
• Successful defense of a top manager's interests in a litigation to challenge an illegally imposed disciplinary sanction in the form of a reprimand, recovery of unpaid bonus and moral damages against the employer being a well-known international pharmaceutical company. The adviser managed to prove not only that the disciplinary sanction was imposed illegally and unreasonably in order to induce the top manager to resign from the company due to a labour conflict with the employer, but also that, in the course of the litigation, the employer had fabricated a document on the full payment of the bonus to the employee.