Melling, Voitishkin & Partners announces that Sergey Kapustin has been made a partner of the firm and that counsel Stepan Akishin and senior associate Elizaveta Sukhovetskaya have joined the Banking & Finance practice.
Sergey Kapustin specializes in M&A transactions, joint ventures, private equity deals, and general corporate support for Russian and foreign companies operating in Russia. He has extensive experience in advising clients on M&A structuring and implementation issues in various industries. Sergey is recommended in Corporate/M&A by leading legal ranking agency Pravo-300 2023.
Stepan Akishin specializes in legal support of banking and financial transactions. Stepan has significant experience in supporting syndicated loan transactions under Russian law, both for lenders and borrowers, in particular, within the framework of the VEB.RF Project Finance Factory program. Stepan also specializes in project finance and restructuring issues. Stepan is recommended in Banking & Finance by leading legal ranking agency Pravo-300 2023.
Elizaveta Sukhovetskaya specializes in legal support of financial transactions, including syndicated and bilateral financing, financial restructuring, as well as capital markets transactions.
Dmitry Dembich, partner and head of the Banking & Finance practice, said: “We are glad to welcome Stepan and Elizaveta to our team! They are talented specialists, and their experience will strengthen our expertise in supporting loan and project financing transactions.”
“Congratulations to Sergey Kapustin on becoming a partner! He has excellent experience, having worked on some of the largest M&A transactions in our market, and I am confident that Sergey will achieve new successes in the development of our transaction practice,” said managing partner Sergei Voitishkin.
