Moscow – March 12, 2014 - Sergey Trakhtenberg, partner of Dentons’ Moscow office, has been appointed head of the Russian Real Estate / Construction Practice. Sergey has extensive experience in cross-border M&A, joint ventures and finance transactions primarily in the real estate sector.
Sergey has acted as a lead lawyer in a wide range of transactions, including share and asset sales and acquisitions, investment in existing or future property, construction, secured and unsecured lending (both on the lender and borrower side), workouts and restructurings of defaulted loans, and others. He has significant experience in structuring and implementing these transactions and drafting and negotiating a full range of related transaction documentation (including English-law documents). He has also conducted numerous full and limited-scope due diligence reviews and coordinated due diligence exercises by offshore counsel on cross-border transactions.
Florian Schneider, managing partner of Dentons’ Moscow office, comments that “Sergei has led teams of lawyers on the most complex and large-scale projects in the Russian real estate market. He will be responsible for strategy to further develop Dentons’ real estate and construction practice in Russia and the CIS.”
Dentons’ Russian real estate and construction group, one of the largest in Russia, is rated as one of the leading practices in Russia by Legal 500 and Chambers Global and Europe. Practice lawyers advise on all real estate matters and transactions, including purchase and leasing of real estate, structuring of land development projects and optimal investment arrangements, project financing, property management projects (hotels, administrative buildings), arbitration, and court disputes.
Sergey’s recent selected experience includes acting for:
Real Estate M&A
Real Estate Finance
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