Team
"Vash Hod" is a legal business team, united by common principles, views and goals. We are equal partners who complement each other. We have years of experience behind us, many complex tasks and solutions, tested by time. All this allows us to be self-confident.
The career track and experience of each of us are unique and it took a lot of hard work. But we did it to become top level professionals.
Make Your move with us!
The career track and experience of each of us are unique and it took a lot of hard work. But we did it to become top level professionals.
Make Your move with us!
Valentin Afanasiev
Partner
- securities
- corporate disputes
- judicial and claim work
- bankruptcy
Practices
Valentin Afanasiev has extensive experience in resolving complex corporate conflicts, creating holdings, optimization of corporate governance and advises on securities on the Russian stock market. Valentin is also a certified specialist in the field of maintaining registers of securities holders, carrying out dealer and brokerage activities, and securities management activities.
Speaks English and French.
Speaks English and French.
Specialisation
Graduated from the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Education
He began his professional career in the Russian Federal Service for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy in 2000. Engaged in advocacy. Then, at various times, he held senior positions in the largest registrar companies (JSC Central Moscow Depository and CJSC Computershare Registrar), was an assistant to the head of the working group for the creation of an international financial center in the Russian Federation under the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of the financial market, held position of corporate secretary of JSC United Rocket and Space Corporation. In 2016-2022, he headed the Legal Due Diligence Department of PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel.
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Sergey Andreev
Partner, PhD in Law
Sergey has extensive experience in civil service: in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the Russian Federal Service for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy, adviser of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, assistant to the Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. During his work, he was directly involved in the preparation of numerous regulations and in the formation of judicial practice. At the same time, he was actively engaged in scientific and teaching activities, working as an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Law Disciplines of the Russian Law Academy of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. Since 2005, he moved to the Center for Legal Research and Development of Legislation. He practiced as an advocate of the Moscow Regional Bar Association since 2008 untill joining our team.
He has more than 30 published works (including 12 books, 9 curricula, 9 articles, translation of judicial practice from English) on civil, arbitration and constitutional law.
He has more than 30 published works (including 12 books, 9 curricula, 9 articles, translation of judicial practice from English) on civil, arbitration and constitutional law.
Career
Sergei graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, defended his thesis on the topic "Correlation between rehabilitation and liquidation procedures in bankruptcy cases".
Education
- business structuring, protection of the interests of owners and managers in the course of entrepreneurial activities
- preparation of civil legal documents, project support
- claim work, risk assessment
- legal representation in civil cases
- legal support in bankruptcy cases
Practices
Sergey Andreev specializes in the legal support of corporate activities, with a focus on commercial contracts and corporate procedures. He has extensive experience in insolvency cases and legal disputes.
Specialisation
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Evgeny Cherkashin
Partner
Practices
- securities and derivative financial instruments
- corporate law
- arbitration
- distressed assets (vindication, restructuring, bankruptcy)
- compliance
- rule-making
Specialisation
Evgeny Chershkashin specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and financial law. He has extensive experience in supporting M&A transactions, financing transactions, corporate and financial restructurings, as well as current legal support for the activities of large Russian and foreign companies.
Speaks English.
Speaks English.
He began his professional career in 2001 as a specialist of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (litigation, work with distressed assets, interaction with international financial organizations: IFC, IBRD). At various times, he held the positions of Director of the Legal Department of the registrar company in the securities market ZAO NRK (Computershare Registrar), Deputy General Director - Compliance Officer of the International Computershare Group in Russia, Deputy General Director - Compliance Officer of the International Forex Club Group in Russia and CIS.
Career
Graduate of the International University (in Moscow) and the Academy of Budget and Treasury of the Ministry of Finance of Russia (Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation).
Certified specialist in the areas of dealer, brokerage and securities management activities.
Certified specialist in the areas of dealer, brokerage and securities management activities.
Education
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Sergey Zubenya
Partner
- contract law, transaction support
- corporate relations
- bankruptcy
- labor disputes, application of labor law
- representation of interests in courts of general jurisdiction, arbitration courts
- representation of interests in public authorities, regulatory authorities
Practices
Specialisation
Sergey Zubenya has extensive practical experience in legal support of various business sectors, extensive litigation and arbitration practice, significant and successful experience in comprehensive legal and communication support for litigation and bankruptcy procedures, and experience in working with distressed assets.
He started his professional career in the banking sector in 1994.
Worked in Surgutneftegazbank, Alfa-Bank, Binbank, National Reserve Bank in positions related to the legal support of the activities of banks and the management of the legal function of banks, including the organization of work with the distressed assets of the banks, recovery of troubled debts and solution of legal issues of the group of companies
Worked in Surgutneftegazbank, Alfa-Bank, Binbank, National Reserve Bank in positions related to the legal support of the activities of banks and the management of the legal function of banks, including the organization of work with the distressed assets of the banks, recovery of troubled debts and solution of legal issues of the group of companies
Career
Graduated from Tyumen State University
Education
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Kozyrev Maksim
Partner
He has work experience (including management) in federal executive authorities, large credit institutions, oil and metallurgy companies, as well as monopoly companies in the communications industry and in the nuclear industry, international consulting, and is engaged in entrepreneurship.
Places of work: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Sberbank of the Russian Federation, SbS-AGRO Bank, Yukos-Moskva LLC, Haarmann, Hemmelrath and Partners International Legal Audit Bureau, Svyazinvest OJSC, Atomstroyexport CJSC, currently is an executive body and founder/co-founder of several Russian and one Kazakh companies (rare metals, consulting)
Places of work: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Sberbank of the Russian Federation, SbS-AGRO Bank, Yukos-Moskva LLC, Haarmann, Hemmelrath and Partners International Legal Audit Bureau, Svyazinvest OJSC, Atomstroyexport CJSC, currently is an executive body and founder/co-founder of several Russian and one Kazakh companies (rare metals, consulting)
Career
He is a graduate of the Moscow State Law Academy. O.E. Kutafina
Certified by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation as an auditor for general audit
Certified by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation as an auditor for general audit
Education
- support of construction and supply contracts;
- legal expertise of economic transactions and development of contractual corporate schemes;
- due diligence of industrial facilities when investing;
- protecting the interests of clients in pre-trial and judicial proceedings, as well as within the framework of administrative proceedings (including in the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation);
- legal services for the client's current economic activity (outsourcing);
- legal support of clients on housing, land and family issues up to the stage of enforcement proceedings
Practices
Specialisation
Kozyrev Maxim specializes in support of construction contracts (EPC, EPCM, MULTI LOCK), legal support of construction in Moscow and the region, supply transactions under Incoterms, arbitration, civil and administrative proceedings.
Fluent in German, English and Greek
Fluent in German, English and Greek
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tel./fax: 8 (495) 762 12 32
e-mail: info@vash-hod.ru
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e-mail: info@vash-hod.ru
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