Mikhail Vasilev Email & Phone Number

Moscow, Ru

Moscow, Russia

NIQ is a big data company engaged in the retail measurement business. It was separated from publicly traded Nielsen Media, a rating company, in 2020. Job purpose:-- to be a member of a regional management team responsible for running the business across North-Eastern Europe and delivering P&L commitments to HQ;-- to plan and execute "special projects" requiring deep professional expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and business acumen;-- develop and execute the government relations strategy of the business in the region;-- manage the legal function and oversee day-to-day operations;-- identify, analyze and mitigate strategic business and legal risks.Key achievements:-- managed to find a suitable space, approve at the HQ level, negotiate the deal, oversee the infrastructure construction and fit-out to relocate the Moscow office of NielsenIQ (a task that could not be completed in years due to budget constraints and market conditions) to a new location in a new "office-by-purpose" paradigm; this helped to improve the HR brand, increase the engagement of existing employees and get a pool of highly-motivated and professional job-seekers;-- developed and executed an adequate government-relations strategy to ensure the business in Russia keeps running despite political turmoil, people crisis, and mobilization.

Moscow, Russia

Job purpose:-- to be a member of a regional management team responsible for running the business across North-Eastern Europe and delivering P&L commitments to HQ;-- develop and execute the government relations strategy of the business in the region;-- manage the legal function and oversee day-to-day operations;-- identify, analyze and mitigate strategic business and legal risks;-- to support long-term multi-million global contract negotiations with several clients.Key achievements:-- reduced outside counsel spending in North-Eastern Europe significantly, with no impact on the service level model and business operations;-- developed and executed a COVID-19 response strategy that allowed the business in Russia not to shut down certain critical operations during lockdowns and keep growing despite the crisis;-- ensured the adequate promotion of team members despite merits freeze;-- froze regulatory changes in Kazakhstan that could have disrupted the business model;-- successfully managed to separate Nielsen Media and Nielsen Connect businesses in NEE (the deal entailed corporate restructuring, transfer of assets and employees and negotiating the transitional services).

Moscow, Russia

Job purpose:-- to create legal function "from scratch" and ensure efficient cross-functional collaboration;-- to deliver strategic advice on key business matters;-- to be a member of the country management team responsible for running the business and delivering P&L commitments to HQ.Key achievements:-- created a friendly, efficient, and professional legal team that ensures cross-functional cooperation and proper business support;-- developed a set of proper forms and templates to significantly reduce the timeframe for revenue recognition (regular contract gets processed by the legal team within four business days), created a solid profile of policies and procedures to cover the business from regulatory risks;-- orchestrated the Russian business restructuring to bring six-figure cost savings and increase the velocity of the business.

Moscow, Russia

Baker McKenzie is a top-tier US law firm with global footprint. I was part of Moscow’s corporate M&A group, providing advice to investors in Russia, and was working on negotiating and closing the deals governed by English law. Job purpose:-- to represent publicly-traded and privately-owned corporations in negotiations, drafting, signing, and closing complex M&A cross-border projects and international restructurings;-- to deliver crystal-clear, sharp, and easy-to-understand legal advice on strategic matters and fundamental business risks and to ensure such issues get proper mitigation in negotiations or via contractual protections;-- to manage high-profile projects requiring top-notch legal expertise.Key achievements:-- successfully represented a foreign investor in a complicated project aimed at establishing corporate control over a medical plant (via the intricate acquisition of a majority stake from a local business group), combating hostile activism of minority shareholders, and making sure all regulatory and other approvals are timely received to get the deal through;-- advised a group of international investors on the proposed upstream JV with the major Russian oil company, several vast-reserve shelf oil fields near the Sakhalin Island were included in the deal perimeter;-- helped a US-based international leading provider of secure logistics solutions to exit from its Russian asset (made the risk assessment, planned, orchestrated, and negotiated the sale of the client's controlling stake in a non-banking financial institution).

Moscow, Russia

Job purpose: -- to deliver legal advice; -- draft contracts;-- M&A due diligence.

Moscow, Russia

Job purpose: -- to prepare materials for court hearings;-- to make researches, deliver legal advice on non-complex matters;-- to represent clients in courts and ensure the enforcement of the awards.-- general corporate/ commercial due diligence.

Specialist Law Degree (Jd Equivalent), Business Law, With Highest Honours

Language Interpretation And Translation, With Highest Honours