Major projects - Import export

Westside’s activities in finance sector includes provision of advice to banks and other banking institutions as well as provision of legal support to investment, construction and trade companies within the framework of project financing, financial risk management, receivables restructuring. Among the major projects of Westside in this area: Work in international team of law firms when structuring International Bank of Reconstruction and Development investments into a Russian-Ukrainian agro-industrial holding; Legal due diligence of an acquired bank (Top-20) on the purchaser’s part; Protection of bank owners and management at the stage of the bankruptcy proceedings; restructuring of a major agro-producer credit portfolio between two major Russian banks. Also Westside represents Russian and international financial and investment institutions’ interests in state courts and arbitration proceedings in Russia and abroad.

Our clients are owners and operators of large logistic terminals, sea ports, freight forwarders, logistic operators. Westside has successfully provided legal support of major infrastructure projects. Infrastructure projects: Creation of corporate structure, being the basis of relationships between an airport, an air company and an aircraft repair plant; Acquisition of a sea port in the Far East on the background of a corporate conflict involving foreign investors. Elaboration of a legal plan for acquisition including shareholders agreement between Russian and foreign partners; Legal support of a Seller of a sea port and oil transshipment business with a multinational corporate structure (structuring of the deal; drafting and negotiating of all agreements being the basis of the deal; organizing of settlements between the parties through an escrow-agent – one of the leading Swiss banks; organizing of the deal completion in Netherlands and Switzerland); Optimization of a structure...