Mergers & acquisitions - Import export

O2 Consulting provides M&A transaction support services in Russia and abroad. We advise sellers and buyers, startup owners and strategic investors, private equity and venture investment funds, owners and managers of companies operating in all areas of today’s economy. We assist in conducting negotiations with counterparties, in preparing and holding auctions and offers for public and private tenders, conducting negotiations with lenders for raising loan funds to finance M&A transactions and setting up joint enterprises and strategic alliances. Our team is able to resolve any client issue arising during an M&A transaction, including conducting comprehensive due diligence of an asset, creating an optimal structure for a joint venture or M&A transaction, developing a tax model and an optimal framework of employment relations, assisting in obtaining government consents to a transaction, and on matters of regulation, intellectual property protection, environment protectio

The O2 Consulting lawyers have accumulated considerable expertise in the telecoms and media sector and enjoy a well-deserved reputation among clients and contracting parties for their innovative solutions, level of expertise and efficiency. The projects implemented by us show that our team is capable of resolving the most complex industry-specific issues. Major business publications are keen to know the professional opinion of the lawyers of O2 Consulting in the telecommunications and media sphere. Our team is ranked among the top in this field according to a leading federal rating of legal advisers. We resolve a wide range of general law and applied matters with a focus on industry specifics: mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, antimonopoly aspects, licensing, protection of personal data, protection of information and commercial secrecy, intellectual property, goodwill, complex legal and tax due diligence, tax and corporate structuring, regulation of the media and the Internet.

Westside has accumulated exceptional experience in the sphere of legal support for merger and acquisition transactions (purchase/sale of businesses) including structures in several jurisdictions. With the aid of our colleagues from The Law Firm Network we have the ability to form a team of professionals for each project who will work as a unit and be able to provide a service which is of a high international standard. The firm’s partners have represented their clients’ interests in commercial negotiations with contracting parties for sale or acquisition of businesses, achieving the best possible price and payment arrangements for a transaction. Services offered: Carrying out legal due diligence for assets to be sold or acquired; Highlighting transaction legal risks and proposing suggestions for their mitigation; Legal structuring for M&A transactions; Drafting of M&A transaction documents including: letters of intent, exclusivity and confidentiality agreements, agreements