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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.

More projects

Sergey BruiCo-Founder of Vizor Games

Sergey Bruy
Co-Founder of Vizor Games

Vizor team would like to express its gratitude to the law firm Aleinikov&Partners for legal support of Vizor Interactive projects. It is quite difficult to find lawyers with an excellent understanding of technologies. Lawyers of "Aleinikov and Partners" are those with whom you can speak the same language. Taking into account the timesaving you can achieve with that, such quality cannot be overemphasized. The law firm "Aleinikov and Partners" can be recommended to IT businesses, which need a modern, flexible and professional team.

Eric GundersenCEO of Mapbox

Eric Gundersen
CEO of Mapbox

We've been working with Aleinikov & Partners since 2016 and they've provided excellent service as Mapbox is quickly growing in Minsk. Definitely recommend Aleinikov & Partners to any other tech companies looking for local counsel in Belarus.

Maxim MarinichMarketplace manager at Deal.by

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.

A&P advised Open Line on Issuance of Blockchain Bonds

Aleinikov & Partners advised Open Line, a Minsk-based leasing company, on issuance of blockchain bonds. Token sale is going to be conducted on the FINSTORE.BY investment platform, which is operated by a subsidiary company of Belvnesheconombank (Bank BelVEB)

BELARUSBANK

Aleinikov&Partners advised BELARUSBANK on the issue of financing of procurement of electrical trains produced by Stadler Bussnang AG for Belarusian Railways.

Aleinikov&Partners advised on Melesta Games – Wargaming deal

Aleinikov&Partners finalized the transaction between the law firm's Client, renown Belarusian mobile games developer Melesta Games and Wargaming, the developer of extremely popular World of Tanks. As a result of the last four months of hard work a strategic cooperation contract between two companies was signed.