Corporate Practice

ILC attorneys have extensive corporate experience in representing commercial clients in the United States, the European Union, Eastern Europe and Asia.

Within the corporate governance aspect of the corporate practice, ILC establishes and maintains legal entities, branches and representative offices. ILC attorneys advise clients on the appropriate corporate structure to achieve their business objectives and comply with corporate law and other applicable legislation. Addressing the issues arising in multi-party and cross-border transactions, ILC assist entrepreneurs in structuring relationship between venture partners and advises management and shareholders of the companies on following corporate procedures and internal corporate documentation. ILC also conducts due diligence and related activities in connection with financing and mergers and acquisition. 

The firm’s attorneys negotiated and drafted complex documentation in connection with numerous major corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investment, corporate finance, joint ventures and privatization. ILC has been involved in numerous multi-million dollar transactions in the United States and the countries of the former Soviet Union regarding technology development, financing transactions and major investments in energy, biotechnology, information technology and telecommunication companies.

The firm represents corporate clients in structuring and organizing start-up businesses and joint ventures in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (NIS). ILC advises clients with regard to complex legal issues arising in cross-border technology transfers and marketing of technological products developed in the NIS and sold or licensed in the West with a focus on information security products, software development, biotechnology and telecommunication. ILC’s attorneys have drafted and negotiated loan agreements and equity investments for projects in the technology, infrastructure, energy, urban development, financial and other sectors.

Representative Transactions:

• Plesk, Inc. Representation of the Delaware company in the sale of its assets to SWsoft, a hosting automation and enterprise server software company. As a result of the transaction, SWsoft became the leader in the industry with over 30 thousand servers deployed to support the three million businesses currently using the combined companies’ hosting products that manage corporate web sites, email servers, and file servers. http://www.sw-soft.com/en/news/id,2251

• Investment company*. Representation of a foreign stockholder in the successful disposition of a significant stake (with a value of just under $20M) in a major Russian energy company.

• Innalabs Inc. Advising Innalabs Inc., a US-based technology “incubator,” in connection with its corporate structuring and financing; acted as lead counsel in documenting and negotiating several transactions of the company regarding the transfer and marketing of Russian technologies in the United States and related multi-million dollar financings.

• Biotechnology company.* Advising a US biotechnology company regarding financing and acquisition of a manufacturing facility from a US public company for production of a substance used for cancer treatment and other pharmaceutical materials.

• Kaspersky Lab Customized Solutions Inc. Advising KLCS, the U.S. subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab, a Russian information security company, with regard to the structuring of its North America operations, protection of confidential information, corporate governance, numerous technology licensing agreements and copyright protection.

• U.S. software company.* Negotiating several off-shore software development contracts in the former Soviet Union in connection with health related software products.

• U.S. investment bank.* Advising the client in connection with structuring and financing of an investment in a Russian energy company.

• Subsidiary of a major Russian public energy company. Advising the client on acquisition of a major industrial concern in St. Petersburg producing energy processing and generating equipment.

• European consortium of investment companies.* Advising the consortium on restructuring of its investments and creating a holding company structure for furthering investment opportunities in the Russian Federation.

• Investment company.* Negotiating agreements and conducting due diligence in connection with acquisition of a Russian bank.

• Project development company.* Advising the client in connection with acquisition of equipment for an energy supply facility for one of the major city development project in Moscow.

• Pharmaceutical company.* Advising the client on the establishment of a joint venture in the EU.

• Ukrainian trading company.* Representing the client in debt recovery procedure in France.

* the name of the client could not be disclosed due to confidentiality