Capital Markets

Liniya Prava has a 11-year track-record of supporting major deals on the domestic equity and debt capital markets remarkable for uniqueness, complexity or value. Reliable and sophisticate legal advice of Liniya Prava has contributed to its reputation and laid the basis for the long-term relations with main market participants.

Leadership of Liniya Prava’s legal expertise on capital markets is recognized by most authorized international professional ratings as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500,  IFLR 1000, PLC: Which Lawyer?.

Liniya Prava holds the award ‘Best Legal Adviser on Russian Bond Market’ (2011- 2009) presented by the leading information agency operating on the domestic corporate bonds market Cbonds.info.

We are on the cutting edge of the local capital markets. We support every second bond issue, deliver legal opinion on Russian laws within cross-border share offerings, advise on innovative securities transactions, contribute to the improvement of the legal framework, etc.

We advise foreign companies on issuing securities to the Russian financial markets. First in Russia transaction of the kind was initiated by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Republic of Belarus were implemented with legal support of Liniya Prava in late 2010.

Liniya Prava’s lawyers advise investment banks, issuers, guarantors and investors on structuring securities transactions and provide explicit documentation in compliance with Russian law requirements therefore. Liniya Prava’s experience in capital markets is distinguished with advising on first IPOs of such Russian companies as Severstal, Mechel, VympelCom, Wimm-Bill-Dann and others.

Exceptional knowledge of the joint-stock companies and securities market laws enables Liniya Prava to be most effective not only when advising on local securities transactions, but also when participating in cross-border transactions as a Russian law adviser.

As a legal counsel on Russian laws Liniya Prava provides exquisite advice on:

• Share offerings on domestic and international stock markets including IPOs
• Mandatory/ voluntary offers
• Privatization
• Eurobond placements
• Corporate bond loans
• Bond restructuring
• Securitization
• Other transactions with securities

At Liniya Prava you can get competent legal advice on:

• Fund-raising on Russian and global capital markets
• Listing and information disclosure on Russian and foreign stock exchanges
• Corporate governance
• Enhancement of equity control
• Investment management
• Other issues

Our lawyers obtain remarkable experience in:

• Securities transactions structuring
• Issuance documentation drafting
• Conducting legal due diligence under Russian laws
• Delivering legal opinion on Russian laws
• Court representation on disputes related to securities