Margarita Sologubenko

Head of Corporate Restructuring Practice

sologubenko@sameta.ru
+7 (495) 937 54 85 (-140)

Margarita specializes in providing full-service support for mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and corporate restructuring, and advises clients on complex civil, corporate, and competition law issues.

Projects successfully completed by Margarita include:

structuring and support for transactions involving the transfer of rights to assets;
legal analysis of businesses and support for their restructuring;
assessment and adaptation of foreign companies corporate policies and programs for compliance with Russian statutory requirements;
review and development of option programs (remuneration programs) for company management, etc.

Before joining Sameta, Margarita was a senior lawyer with the legal department of a major Russia and CIS gas trader.

Restructuring and Troubled Assets

Recent mandates

Providing strategic advice to a group of companies of a leading jewellery manufacturer and retailer on the restructuring of debt in the framework of insolvency proceedings involving a large pool of hostile creditors
Providing strategic advice to the creditor of a major petrochemicals holding on management and subsequent disposition of non-core assets in the framework of external administration and insolvency proceedings
Providing strategic advice to a leading real estate development group on disposition of assets to settle a debt owed to a bank and on restructuring the group’s business
Advising a professional securities market participant on a range of measures to be taken prior to and during liquidation of the company
Advising a leading foreign auto dealer on management of accounts receivable (including recovery) and insolvency procedures
Advising a major media holding on management of accounts receivable (including recovery) and insolvency procedures