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Alexander Dolgov

Partner, Head of Infrastructure and PPP Practice, LL.M.

Corporate Law and M&A Infrastructure and PPP Banking and Finance Law Capital markets Real Estate. Land. Construction Investment Support

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+7 (495) 374-74-03

alexander.dolgov@verba.legal

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Russian, English, German, French

Alexander has over 20 years of experience specializing in supporting public-private partnership (PPP) projects and project finance transactions across various sectors, including transport, manufacturing sector, energy, utility infrastructure, and digital technologies.

He has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating concession agreements, PPP agreements, risk allocation memoranda, and corporate, facility, and finance documents. He advises clients on various projects at all project implementation stages, from initiating a project and competitive tender procedures to contracting and achieving commercial and financial close.

Alexander is a member of numerous associations and working groups dealing with PPP mattes, legislative process, investments and regional development.

Alexander's clients include major Russian and international banks, investment funds, infrastructure and IT companies, developers, governmental authorities, and private investors.

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Ratings and Rewards

Alexander is recommended as a leading lawyer (Tier 1, the highest ranking) by both national and international legal directories, including IFLR 1000, Legal 500, Chambers & Partners (Europe), Best Lawyers, Pravo-300, Kommersant, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

IFLR 1000, in conjunction with Petroleum Economist, in Energy and Infrastructure Guide

Chambers & Partners (Europe), ranked in the Public-Private Partnership category

Legal 500, ranked in the Public-Private Partnership category

Best Lawyers, recognized in the Project Finance and Development category

Pravo-300, ranked in the Public-Private Partnerships / Infrastructure, Transport Law, and Digital Economy categories

Kommersant, recognized in the categories Public-Private Partnerships and Tourism

Rossiyskaya Gazeta, ranked in the Public-Private Partnerships / Infrastructure category

Highlighted Experience

Alexander advised:

a syndicate of Russian banks (including Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Sovcombank) in connection with Russia's largest concession-based project involving financing, development and operation of the high-speed passenger railway service connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, and acquisition and operation of high-speed rolling stock; the amount of investments exceeds RUB 1.8 trillion;

Gazprombank and DOM.RF in connection with the financial close of the project involving construction of a new tram line connecting Kupchino metro station, Shushary and Slavyanka residential settlements in St. Petersburg under a concession agreement;

VTB Infrastructure Holding Company in connection with financing a project involving construction and operation of the Latitudinal High Speed Highway; the City of St. Petersburg acts as a concession grantor;

VEB.RF on construction, renovation, and upgrade of the urban tram lines in Rostov-on-Don, Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnodar, and Taganrog, and providing security for financing the projects under concession agreements;

RT-Invest Transport Systems in connection with amending the terms and conditions of the Platon Electronic Toll Collection System Concession Agreement;

VEB.RF and Rodina Group of Companies in connection with financing a project involving renovation and operation of the cultural heritage site, an Ivanovo-based inter-university campus, under a concession agreement;

VEB.RF and Regional Engineering Infrastructure Development-Kemerovo in connection with financing the development and operation of facilities for collection, storage, processing and decontamination of solid household waste in the Kemerovo Region (Kuzbass) under a concession agreement, including risk analysis, drafting a direct agreement and other services (Financing Agreements were made in June 2025);

Alfa Bank in connection with financing the development and operation of Voronezh-based Left Bank Wastewater Treatment Facility under a concession agreement;

Rosneft in connection with drafting a concession agreement with the Russian Federation for preservation and operation of the palace and garden complex, a poor-condition UNESCO-protected federal significance cultural heritage site;

AGA (A) Federal State Unitary Enterprise on the review and negotiation of documents required for execution of concession agreements in relation to financing, development, renovation, and operation of the airfield facilities (airfields, buildings and/or structures designated for aircraft take-off, landing, taxiing, and parking, and airport engineering and maintenance infrastructure in the airports of Kemerovo, Chita, and Stavropol;

VEB.RF and Gazprombank in connection with financing a project involving construction and operation of the Lavna Coal Terminal under the concession agreement, including risk analysis and drafting a direct agreement;

VEB.RF and Magadan Region Development Corporation in connection with the financial close of the project involving construction of the small craft marina and maintenance center in Magadan under a concession agreement;

Advanced Technologies Development Center in connection with designing a project envisaging development of the marking and sales tracing system under a public-private partnership agreement;

Eurasian Fish Center in connection with implementation of a fish port and general cargo terminal construction project in Vladivostok;

VEB.RF in connection with financing a project envisaging development and operation of the Mine Park in Vladivostok under a concession agreement, including risk analysis and drafting a direct and intercreditor agreements;

a state corporation in connection with the projects envisaging development (renovation) and operation of water-supply and water-disposal facilities in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

Digital Primorye in connection with the project envisaging development and operation of the regional information system in the Primorye Territory under a concession agreement;

Avtodor in connection with the development, implementation and operation of the toll collection system (TCS) and automatic traffic-control system (ATCS) on the Central Ring Road (or TsKAD, in its Russian acronym) under a long-term owner-operator agreement, involving a new free-flow tolling system;

Avtodor in connection with the comprehensive legal support in relation to the Central Ring Road (or TsKAD) Project (Start-up Facilities No. 3 and 4) at the stage of preparation for the tender, commercial and financial close, including drafting tender documents and concession agreements, legal support at the stages of preparation for, and holding, the tender;

United Toll Systems at the financial close stage of the M4 (Don) Federal Motorway Renovation, Maintenance and Operation project (first ever O&M project in Russia);

Sberbank and Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District Development Fund on drafting standard-form (model) documents for concession-based general education institution development and operation projects (a model solution for the Yugra's New Schools program);

Moscow Tourism Committee in connection with the promotion of the PPP mechanisms for the development and operation of travel infrastructure facilities (hotel complexes);

Amur Region Investment Agency in connection with developing a project envisaging upgrade and operation of the Blagoveshchensk international airport for servicing international and domestic flights; drafting tender documents for an airport infrastructure concession agreement and a concession agreement;

Yekaterinburg Branch of the Eye Microsurgery Inter-Agency Scientific and Technical Complex in connection with financing, design, renovation and operation of a Yekaterinburg-based health facility under a concession agreement (Winner of ROSINFRA Award in the 2017 Best Social Sector PPP Project category);

a concession operator in connection with the development of concession-based projects envisaging construction and operation of oncoradiological centers in the Moscow Region;

VEB.RF and RVK Capital in connection with the renovation and development of water-supply and water-disposal facilities in Saransk;

Donaerodorstroy in connection with the review of the long-term investment agreement to raise finance for implementation of the M4 (Don) High-Speed Motorway construction and operation project (Krasnodar Bypass);VEB.RF and RVK Capital in connection with the renovation and development of water-supply and water-disposal facilities in Saransk;

an energy company in connection with the project envisaging design, construction and operation, under a PPP agreement, of technological and digital infrastructure facilities of the electric vehicle charging network in various constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

an IT company in connection with the project envisaging design, construction, equipping, maintenance and operation, under a PPP agreement, of sports and physical training facilities in Bashkortostan;

a client in connection with the project envisaging development and operation of a digital platform for attracting private investments in sports and physical training facilities under a PPP agreement;

a service for operations with self-employed contractors and individuals in connection with the project envisaging development and operation of the platform-employment digital system under a PPP agreement;

Tekhnopass in connection with financing, development and operation of the Unified Federal System for Monitoring and Control over Interregional Passenger Transportation under a concession agreement, including drafting amendments to the statutory regulations required for project implementation, drafting a concession agreement and other project documents;

a client in connection with the project envisaging development of the urban bus service in Yakutsk under a concession agreement;

China Railway Construction Corporation in connection with a project envisaging construction and operation of the Vladivostok Ring Road, including drafting a concession agreement and client support in negotiations with the public-sector participant;

Eighth Concession Company in connection with the financial close of the Lena River bridge construction and operation project in Yakutsk under a concession agreement, including drafting a risks memorandum and a supplemental and a direct agreements (Winner of ROSINFRA Award in the 2021 Best Trunk Infrastructure Project category);

Crocus International on financial closing of a project envisaging construction and operation of the Central Ring Road (Start-Up Facility No. 1) under a long-term investment agreement, including drafting a risks memorandum, a supplemental and a direct agreements;

an investor and a syndicate of banks in connection with financing a project envisaging upgrade of an international airport located in a friendly jurisdiction in accordance with the international treaty and PPP agreement, including analysis of risks, including political risks, and regulatory treatment of the project assets (including the historic terminal building, a cultural heritage site), drafting amendments to the key project documents, and security documents;

an investor in connection with a project envisaging granting the rights to operate an Asia-Pacific international airport;

Veolia in connection with a pilot PPP project in Uzbekistan's housing and utility sector involving upgrade of the heat supply system in Tashkent, including drafting a PPP agreement and providing negotiation support;

Polar Star in relation to a project envisaging construction and operation of the Polar Star year-round children’s recreational and rehabilitation center in Yakutia, including drafting project documents and project risks memorandum;

Russian Environmental Operator, a public-law company, in connection with preparation for a tender to conclude a concession agreement in relation to solid household waste collection, recycling, neutralization and disposal facilities in the Tara municipal district, Omsk Region, including drafting tender documents and a concession agreement;

VIS Group in relation to amending a concluded concession agreement to promote implementation of a solid household waste disposal project in the Novosibirsk Region, including support in obtaining a competition authority's approval of such amendments;

VEB.RF in relation to amendments and supplements to a draft law that clarify the manner and terms and conditions of PPP project implementation in the IT sector (the second reading of the draft law in the State Duma of the Russian Federation; future Law No. 604-FZ dated December 29, 2022);

CIS Interparliamentary Assembly / EBRD in connection with drafting a CIS model public-private partnership agreement and preparation of methodological guidelines in relation to application of PPP mechanisms in the CIS countries in various sectors;

EDB on analysis of the laws of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to address regulatory peculiarities of operation of private equity funds;

EBRD, IFC, EDB, Nordic Investment Bank, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank and Vnesheconombank in connection with financing, reconstruction, and operation of Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg;

IFC and Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry in connection with implementation of the country's first PPP project aimed at enhancing the provision of laboratory and dialysis services by way of involvement of two private partners for reconstruction and operation of the laboratory and dialysis center network;

EBRD in connection with the development of the pilot PPP project in Uzbekistan's road construction sector, the Tashkent-Samarkand motorway project;