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Capital Markets

Our team advises issuers, selling shareholders, underwriters, investors, and other capital markets participants on a wide range of matters, including:

  • Initial and secondary public offerings, including offerings structured as rights offerings and accelerated book-builds;
  • Preparing and launching an IPO, including corporate restructuring, pre-IPO investments, and alignment of company’s corporate governance with stock exchange requirements and best market practices;
  • ADR and GDR depositary programs, including their termination and delisting from foreign exchanges and conversion of depositary receipts into underlying shares;
  • Buy-backs of equity securities in the open market;
  • Public and private offerings of debt securities and hybrid instruments, including structured bonds, perpetual Eurobonds and sovereign Eurobonds;
  • Tender offers for debt securities, including tender offers structured to bypass central securities depositories and exclusionary tender offers;
  • Consent solicitations to replace trustees, change payment terms, or amend other provisions of issuance documents;
  • ESG-compliant debt offerings, including offerings of green Eurobonds and social Eurobonds issued in compliance with the rules of the International Capital Markets Association;
  • Public company disclosure and investor relations;
  • Capital markets regulations, including sanctions and counter-sanctions; and
  • Development of market infrastructure, including market infrastructure located in the international financial centres of emerging markets.
Our lawyers have gained significant experience at leading international law firms, are qualified to practice in Russia and abroad, and have in-depth knowledge on a broad range of ECM and DCM issues, which allows us to successfully structure complex transactions and offer comprehensive solutions that enable our clients to meet their goals in a rapidly changing environment of Russian and international capital markets.

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Recent Events

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Pravo-300 Individual Ranking: 21 Better Chance lawyers make the list

On March 12, the individual lawyer ranking Pravo-300 has been released

12 March 2025
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Better Chance Advises Alfa-Bank JSC on its Acquisition of Pushkinsky JSC and Karo Film Sevastopolsky LLC

Better Chance acted as legal counsel to Alfa-Bank JSC on its acquisition of Pushkinsky JSC (which includes the “Rossiya” cinema on Pushkinskaya Square) and Karo Film Sevastopolsky LLC

27 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises R-Pharm on its Acquisition of a Stake in Center IVF

Better Chance team acted as legal counsel to R-Pharm, a medical biotechnology company, on its acquisition of a 49.9% stake in Center IVF, comprising a network of 29 operating companies

26 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises Natixis on the Sale of its Subsidiary Bank in Russia

Better Chance team acted as legal counsel to Natixis S.A. on the sale of 100% shares in Natixis Bank JSC, its subsidiary bank in Russia

25 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises on the Largest Infrastructure Project in Russia

On 20 December 2024, the financial closing of the Moscow — St. Petersburg High-Speed Railway (HSR) project took place

24 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises Joyson Safety Systems on its Transaction with MGC Group

Better Chance acted as legal counsel to the global automotive components manufacturer Joyson Safety Systems (JSS) in connection with the sale of 100% shares in its Russian subsidiary, Joyson Safety Systems Rus LLC, to MGC Group

23 December 2024
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Better Chance advises Getblogger Founders in the Transaction with MTS

Better Chance team acted as legal counsel to the founders in connection with the acquisition of Getblogger LLC, a blogger advertising platform, by a subsidiary of MTS

19 December 2024
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Better Chance and W&H Law Firm (PRC) entered into a comprehensive strategic cooperation

Our cooperation with one of the largest law firms in mainland China creates new opportunities in the rapidly growing market of cross-border investment projects 

16 November 2023
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Better Chance advises X5 Group

Better Chance advises X5 Group on the acquisition of a 100% stake in Victoria Baltia LLC

17 August 2023
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First year results and strategic developments

Better Chance announces its first-year results and new strategic areas of focus

01 June 2023
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