Pepeliaev Group bolsters its Banking Practice

16th October 2012 - Igor Marmalidi has joined Pepeliaev Group as partner and head of Banking and Finance Practice. Prior to joining Pepeliaev Group, Igor has served for 14 years as Head of the Legal Department of Citibank providing legal support for Citibank’s businesses in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.  He graduated from the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and received a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) at Case Western Reserve University (USA).  Before joining Citibank, Igor spent several years working as a lawyer at Russian and international law firms in Moscow and New York City.  He is licensed to practice law in the State of New York, USA.

Igor has twenty years of experience of advising clients on a wide range of legal matters in relation to major projects in the banking sector; banking and securities markets regulations; commercial, corporate and finance law; structuring of international financial and investment transactions; securities issuance and trading. He has extensive experience in currency control issues and dispute resolution involving financial institutions.

“Having an expert join our firm from the banking sector not only strengthens our banking and finance practice, but also significantly broadens the range of services we can offer our clients in the area of banking and finance,” states Pepeliaev Group’s managing partner Sergey Pepeliaev. “In particular, it will allow us to provide support for transactions on capital markets (securities issuances, securitization transactions and credit products), trade finance and pre-export finance, as well as bilateral and syndicated lending among other things.” 

“As head of the legal department in Russia at one of the largest international banks, I did interact with many law firms,” adds Igor Marmalidi. “Pepeliaev Group, in my view, is one of the best law firms on the Russian market. I am delighted with the opportunity to join such a highly professional team and I hope that together we can do even more for our colleagues and clients in the financial markets.” 

The lawyers of Pepeliaev Group’s Banking & Finance Practice provide legal support to banks, other financial institutions, professional securities market participants and investors on a broad range of matters, such as:

• registration and licensing of banks and other financial institutions; 
• advice on the banking and securities market regulations;
• capital markets transactions support;
• financial transactions structuring (including cross-border transactions);
• structuring and tax support for derivative transactions;
• debt restructuring and recovery;
• representation of creditors in bankruptcy proceedings;
• information protection and information security;
• retail banking and financial products and services;
• securities issuances and trading;
• legal due diligence;
• M&A involving banks and other financial institutions.