ТМТ (Telecommunications, Media & Technology)

Advised Vezet Group on sale of its call centres and cargo business to the MLU B.V. ride-sharing and food delivery joint venture between Yandex N.V. and Uber International C.V., for a purchase price of up to USD 178 m.

Advised MTT Group on selling to Mobile TeleSystems PJSC 100% of the shares in MTT, a Top-10 biggest telecom company in Russia and a leading provider of intelligent connectivity solutions for businesses. The asset was purchased for RUB 5 bn.

Advising Mastercard Members’ Association on the possibility of implementing a completely new product (cash-out procedure) in Russia.

Acted for Skolkovo resident Double Data specialising in Big Data solutions for finance companies in a high-profile, precedent-setting dispute with the VKontakte social network over use of Big Data and the way search engines work. This is one of the most talked about and high-profile IP/IT and Big Data litigations in recent years and is also the first ever dispute in Russia over intellectual rights to publicly accessible web data (database) generated by users themselves, rather than the website owner.

Providing continuous support to MTS, a leading telecommunications provider in Russia, in connection with the client’s projects and transactions, including: acquisition of the OZON group of companies; acquisition of a number of Russian mobile operators; acquisition of a controlling stake (50.82%) in the Russian retail software developer Oblachny Retail (Cloud Retail) LLC operating under the LiteBox brand; establishment of a corporate venture capital fund to invest in cloud technologies, FinTech, AI and machine learning, e-health and other start-ups.