Valeria specializes in supporting public-private partnership (PPP) projects and project finance transactions in infrastructure, industrial and energy sectors. She has a successful track record of working on projects across various industries including transport, housing and utilities, healthcare.
She provides legal support throughout all project stages, from building up a concept and choosing the legal structure to executing, performing and amending the relevant agreements.
Valeria takes part in drafting and negotiating concession agreements, preparing credit and security documentation, advises on transaction structuring and risk allocation issues. She has experience working on both large-scale federal infrastructure projects and regional initiatives, including the development of public transport and social infrastructure.
achievements
Ratings and Awards
Valeria is recommended by Pravo-300 (a leading Russian legal directory) as a prominent expert in transport law.
Experience Highlights
Valeria advised:
VEB.RF and investors in connection with the preparation and financing of a project envisaging the construction, renovation and upgrade of the urban electrical transport systems (tram lines) in Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don and other regions;
A+ Integration in relation to the establishment of a traffic violation recording system in the Chuvash Republic, including drafting bidding documents and a concession agreement;
Crocus International on potential modification of a long-term investment agreement entered into as part of a project envisaging the construction and operation of the Central Ring Road (Start-Up Facility No. 1);
Veolia in connection with its participation in a tender for the right to conclude a public-private partnership agreement as part of a project envisaging the construction of a water treatment plant in the town of Namangan, Uzbekistan;
Gazprombank and DOM.RF in connection with the financial closing 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;
Yekaterinburg Branch of the Eye Microsurgery Inter-Agency Scientific and Technical Complex in connection with a concession project envisaging the financing, design, renovation and operation of a Yekaterinburg-based health facility;
an investor on the establishment of a tennis centre based on a concession agreement in the town of Sysert, Sverdlovsk Region;
EBRD and the Government of Azerbaijan in connection with the development of the regulatory framework for implementation of PPP and concession-based projects in Azerbaijan, including drafting policy documents, a PPP law and related regulations;
Avivir on a project envisaging the construction and operation of a hotel in the urban-type settlement of Ugolnye Kopi in the Chukotka Autonomous District, including drafting a concession agreement and a proposal to conclude an agreement;
a syndicate of banks in connection with the preparation of credit and security and related concession documentation and the financial closing of a federal concession project for the construction of Moscow - St. Petersburg High-Speed Railway;
Center for Research in Perspective Technologies on development of a legal model as well as drafting of a PPP agreement and a set of private initiative documents for the implementation of a pilot PPP project in the IT sector of the Republic of Uzbekistan envisaging the setting-up and operation of a product labelling system;
Raiffeisen Bank International on a Russian component of a general cross-border factoring agreement including amending its draft version and drawing up accompanying documents and annexes taking into account the provisions of Russian law.