Ekaterina Dedova

Contacts

Telephone

+7 495 968 8 968

E-mail

ekaterina.dedova@alumnipartners.ru

Dr Ekaterina Dedova advises clients on cross-border transactions, including global M&A, restructuring and joint ventures, on established and emerging markets throughout the world.

Ekaterina Dedova advises a number of world-leading corporations, privately and publicly held companies, in the following areas:

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Advises companies in various industries on global M&A transactions, often involving multiple jurisdictions. Effective in directing big teams of lawyers and accountants to assist clients in structuring, negotiating, implementing and closing international transactions.
Joint ventures and strategic alliances. Advises companies on negotiating, structuring, operating and exiting international equity joint venture arrangements, licensing, distribution and manufacturing agreements, collaborative marketing arrangements and other strategic alliances.
Pre- and post-acquisition integration and restructurings. Advises companies on post- acquisition restructurings and has substantial experience of complex reorganisations and group restructurings.

Expertise

Corporate / M&A

Digital Economy

ТМТ (Telecommunications, Media & Technology)

38

team members

are recommended by the leading Russian national legal directory Pravo-300 in 22 practice areas

Projects & Clients

Advising Etalon Group on the acquisition of a 65% stake in a joint venture established to implement a major project for integrated territorial development of the city of Rostov-on-Don.

Advised Sovcombank on a number of high-profile projects, including acquisition of VCA Bank shares, support in negotiating and entering into a financial services strategic partnership agreement with IDRAM Mobile Payments LLC, and some other deals.

Conducting a legal assessment and developing the documents for launching a goods (service) payment service to a foreign store using a quick payment system, as per the provisions of the legislation on digital assets, communications, AML / CFT, the national payment system and personal data.

Advising X5 Group on acquiring the Forward-Market distributor's business in the Republic of Bashkortostan. As part of the transaction, X5 Group will acquire ownership of distribution centres (28 000 sq. m) and a fleet of 47 vehicles.

Awards & Rankings

The best

lawyer

Ekaterina was also selected by her peers as one of the best lawyers in Russia in the fields of Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Information Technology Law, according to Best Lawyers in Russia 2018-2022.

Lawyer

of the Year

Ekaterina has been recognised as Lawyer of the Year in Fintech by Best Lawyers in Russia 2021.

A recommended

lawyer

For several years now, Ekaterina has been named a recommended lawyer in Corporate / M&A and Telecommunications, Media and Technologies (TMT) by the Legal 500 EMEA, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe.

News & Insights

ALUMNI Partners advised Etalon Group on its acquisition of a stake in a joint venture established in the Russian region for a large-scale integrated territorial development project

ALUMNI Partners’ lawyers are individually recognised by Pravo-300 in 2023

ALUMNI Partners has advised X5 Group on acquiring a distributor in Bashkortostan

ALUMNI Partners provides legal support to X5 Group on the Victoria Baltia retail network acquisition project