Dewey & LeBoeuf

Nataliya Luchnikova

Associate

Nataliya Luchnikova is a UK-qualified associate and a member of the London office's Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets Group. Nataliya has experience in a broad range of cross-boarder and domestic corporate finance transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions (under the Takeover Code and by private agreement), corporate reorganisations and listing transactions, including IPOs, secondary equity and debt issues (AIM and Official List), public and private offerings of equity or debt in the UK, the US and other financial markets, investment fund finance, joint ventures and structured finance. Nataliya also advises on strategy, business solutions, corporate governance and regulatory compliance issues.

Nataliya is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian languages.

Representative Matters

Acting as issuer's counsel to PJSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, on its successful US$955 million IPO of shares in the form of GDRs, which included both a Russian domestic offering and an international offering to investors pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, with an admission to trading of the GDRs on the London Stock Exchange;
Acting for EnCore Companies on their reverse takeover by Oil Quest Resources Plc, an AIM-listed exploration and production company, in conjunction with a placing on AIM;
Advising Telefonica on the auction sale of its 99.7% stake in Endemol Investment Holding to a consortium comprising Mediaset, gestevisiontelecinco, Cyrte and Goldman Sachs for a total consideration of €2.629 billion;
Acting for Credit Suisse as arranger and dealer, and ING Bank, JPMorgan and Nomura, as dealers, in connection with the update of the $8 billion Global Medium Term Notes Program of JSC Bank TuranAlem and TuranAlem Finance B.V. and the issue under Rule 144A and Regulation S of $1 billion of Notes thereunder. This was the largest Eurobond issue out of Kazakhstan to date;
Advising ENR Russia Invest and Eastern Property Holdings, two Swiss-listed investment funds, concerning their $50 million investment in a Russian "hypercenter" project;
Advising Vnesheconombank on its over 3% investment in Rusal UC IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange and subsequent pledge arrangement with Rusal's key shareholders;
Acted as an issuer's counsel to Eastern Property Holdings on a US$153 million offering of shares (both pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S), with an admission to trading on the SWX Swiss Exchange;
Representing Kiln Limited on its acquisition of Kiln Plc by was of a court-approved scheme of arrangement and listing on the Official List, group reorganisation and relocation to Bermuda;
Advising Rambler Media Limited on its admission to AIM and the placing of new and existing shares. This was the first Russian-language media IPO in London, and one of the first Russian companies outside the energy or mining sectors to be listed on AIM;
Advising Lancashire Holdings Limited, in connection with its US$1 billion IPO and listing on AIM. This was the largest IPO of an insurer on AIM. Also advised the company on its move to the Main Market of the LSE;
Acting as depositary’s counsel to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas on ADR and GDR programs relating to IPOs and other offerings by Russian companies