Banking & Finance
For several years, Aleinikov & Partners has been working with the country’s major financial institutions, including the Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus. The company’s clients are included in the high-profile list – The Banker Top 1000.
We have gained considerable experience in project financing matters: Aleinikov & Partners has given support to a significant part of the domestic M&A transactions in the banking sector, advised on updating banks’ information infrastructure and software procurement, while the team’s knowledge of securities enabled us to act as legal adviser to the World Bank within the framework of an international technical assistance project for Belarus seeking to harmonize the provisions of the national laws and the EU Directives and IOSCO standards.
What we can help with:
- Using a variety of financial market instruments;
- Entering into loan agreements by banks;
- Project financing and public private partnership;
- Issues related to investment activities;
- M&A transactions involving banks;
- Regulation of payments, settlements, electronic money, and digital marks (tokens);
- Securitization;
- Issuance of blockchain bonds;
- Mezzanine financing;
- Trade financing;
- Legislative work.
Projects
Alfa-Bank Belarus
Representation of Alfa-Bank (Belarus), a part of Alfa Group, one of the largest privately owned financial-investment conglomerates in Russia, in the M&A transaction to acquire a 99.98% stake in Fransabank More
Advising jointly with DLA Paper shareholders of Alfa-Bank (Belarus) on 100% acquisition of the Home Credit Group’s Belarusian subsidiary More
Bank BelVEB
Advising the company from the Bank BelVEB Banking Holding on the launch of the online investment platform FINSTORE.BY.
Evrotorg
Advising Evrotorg, a Belarus' major food retailer and the only country's issuer of eurobonds, on debt financing issues.
PromSvyazBank
Advising PromSvyazBank (Russia) on securing performance of obligations under the loan agreement.
Belarusbank
Advising Belarusbank that is among the largest financial institutions of Belarus on concluding a loan agreement with the consortium of Swiss banks (UBS AG, Credit Suisse AG, Zurcher Kantonalbank) aimed at financing of procurement of electrical trains produced by Stadler Bussnang AG for Belarusian Railways.
MTBank
Advising MTBank regarding entry into an agreement with Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) aimed at cooperative financing of projects in the field of energy efficiency.
Belarusbank
Assisting Belarusbank with attraction of the loan from Slovenska izvozna in razvojna banka (Slovenia) aimed at financing of purchase of equipment from Slovenian manufacturer by the Belarusian JSC.
Czech financial institution
Advising the Czech financial institution on the issues related to implementation of forfeiting scheme in Belarus.
BelAZ Trading House
Advising BelAZ Trading House on attraction of trade financing.
Belarusbank
Advising Belarusbank in respect of attraction of financing from Export-Import Bank of China for the purpose of implementation of the project aimed at constructing the plant for the production of sulfate bleached and rayon pulp.
Maxim Marinich
Marketplace manager at Deal.by
Aleinikov&Partners law firm perfectly coped with negotiation on solving of controversial situation with the former operator of Deal.by platform. We are absolutely satisfied with both the process and the result. There is no doubt that the сooperation with Aleinikov & Partners is the case when any business-critical issues can be effectively solved by external consultants. There are no ‘’one-size-fits-all” approach to the problem solving for lawyers of Aleinikov&Partners, because their work is always based on the clients’ specific needs and they do everything possible to respond to these needs.
Vladimir Peshko
Head of Legal Department of Unitary Enterprise «Velcom»
Aleinikov&Partners’ specialists proved themselves as professionals in the field of IT. The main quality of the company's lawyers is the ability to anticipate the development of the situation in various directions. Deep involvement in work on a particular legal problem forms a positive image of the company and objective assessment of the situation allows to achieve the goals.
Andrey Yarantsev
Top Manager of Wargaming & Melsoft
We have been cooperating with Aleinikov&Partners law firm on various issues for several years. The representatives of this company are friendly, decent as well as always attentive to the issues in question. Especially I would like to emphasize their deep understanding of the specifics how start-ups work and the nuances of companies which entire into the cross-border market. In my opinion, Aleinikov&Partners is the absolute leader in the number of top-level transactions in the IT-field and the Game Industry in our country.
Aleinikov&Partners Law Firm advised Austrian Kapsch TrafficCom in regard to implementation of the investment project on creating in the Republic of Belarus of the national electronic tolling system for motor vehicles on selected roads.
Aleinikov & Partners and IT Park of Uzbekistan have signed a Cooperation Agreement. Aleinikov & Partners becomes IT Park’s international outside adviser in connection with the improvement of a regulatory framework for the development of the IT industry in Uzbekistan as the firm had been experienced successful work with the Belarus Hi-Tech Park in this respect
Aleinikov & Partners has been advised Service Desk, a subsidiary of BPS Sberbank and a member company of Sberbank Group, which deals with software development for banking and financial activities, on joining the Hi-Tech Park