Aug 4, 2021

Default Helvetica Segoe Georgia Times Share This Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has advised Sberbank Investments and the Russia-China Investment Fund on a RUB 1.6 billion investment structured as a syndicated venture loan in Eruditor Group holding. White & Case advised the Eruditor group on the deal. Eruditor Group holding is the owner of Russian professional services marketplace Profi and Zoon information service. According to BCLP, Profi enables professionals to seek customers and users to find qualified specialists in multiple sectors, including tutors, repair and beauty professionals, sports coaches, etc. Zoon provides consumers with information about various places and organizations in the tertiary sector and helps businesses promote themselves. BCLP’s team included Partners Emma Howdle-Fuller and Anton Panchenkov, Counsels Igor Zhivotov and Alexey Koshelev, and Associates Elena Shelomenzeva, Lira Pogodina, and Sam Wilson. White & Case's team included Moscow-based Local Partner Ekaterina Logvinova and Associate Azamat Gaisenov. Russian Knowledge Partner Founded in 1993, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is the leading full-service law firm in the CIS with offices in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and associated offices in the UK, the USA and Cyprus. We handle some of the largest and most complex and demanding transactions. We advise our clients in many areas of law, including: dispute resolution in Russia and abroad, International Arbitration and Litigation, M&A and Corporate, antitrust issues, criminal law, intellectual property, restructurings and insolvencies, international trade and customs, tax, real estate and construction, banking and finance, energy and natural resources, environmental and technical regulation, marine and transport law, pharmaceuticals and healthcare and others. We combine high academic qualifications, internationally acknowledged moral and ethical values, senior partners' professional experience and practical abilities with the vigour and knowledge of younger attorneys, providing clients with reliable, first-class service according to both Russian and western standards through a flexible structure. All News about, and Legal Analysis by, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners can be  found here .