Senior corporate executive, consultant and lawyer with over 30 years of experience in restructuring fast growth, highly acquisitive businesses both in the United States and in Russia. Fluent in English, Russian and French.Experience encompasses start-up firms to international conglomerates. Industry experience includes energy, fertilizers, transportation, real estate, aluminum, biotechnology and finance.✔ Project lead for due diligence, negotiation and acquisition of a major Russian fertilizer holding company.✔ Post-acquisition, led corporate optimization. Through negotiations and litigation restructured company’s debt, built efficient chain of international trading companies, and expanded the company through a series of stock / assets acquisitions.✔ Through corporate restructuring and legal maneuvering, successfully defended against hostile takeover.✔ Lead successful sale of the holding company through a series of transactions with competing buyers while spinning off rail cargo transportation business.✔ Repositioned railroad company’s business making it one of the leaders in the chemical industry in Russia, expanded into oil transportation, and accomplished corporate/tax optimization.✔ Co-founded a utility-scale solar energy development company. Built strong relationship with utilities, manufacturers, municipalities, environmental groups, and local stakeholders. Successfully navigated complex and cumbersome regulatory/permitting process. ✔ As a managing partner in a private real estate investment company, co-led analysis, due-diligence and acquisition of real estate assets in New York and North-East, adding value through legal means, renovation, and utilization of favorable tax programs.✔ Lead advisor to a Russian business group on domestic and international corporate, tax, and business law, structuring and executing investment transactions and M&A. ✔ Advise Russian companies on project finance, private equity and venture capital transactions.