Vladimir Sokov has been elected a senior partner of Pepeliaev Group

As a partner in the firm, Vladimir Sokov became head of Pepeliaev Group’s corporate division in February 2009. Since 1 March 2013, Vladimir became a senior partner. Before joining Pepeliaev Group, Vladimir headed up the Moscow office of international law firm Hannes Snellman. Before working at Hannes Snellman, in 2005-2006, Vladimir was a partner at ETL Law Offices.

Vladimir specialises in corporate law. Across almost fifteen years of his professional career, Vladimir has handled major projects involving mergers and acquisitions of companies. He has also successfully taken part in numerous pieces of litigation regarding corporate issues, having been instructed by well-known international and Russian companies. Vladimir has extensive experience of advising  in areas such as real estate and antimonopoly regulation. He has been actively involved in projects such as: the acquisition by SCA of the Georgia-Pacific businesses; providing legal support on the development of the Shtokman deposit; providing legal support on drafting the regulatory and legislative basis for hosting the football World Cup 2018 at the behest of FIFA, among others. 

Vladimir and the lawyers of our corporate practice have provided ongoing support to companies such as: Energy Standard Group, Hoffmann La Roche, MSD Pharmaceuticals, NovoNordisk, AUCHAN, Shtokman Development, Volkswagen, Skamol, Rosneft, Johnson & Johnson, Becton Dickinson, Omya Rus and Gals Development among others.  

Vladimir is a member of of the Russian Bar Association. Mr Sokov and lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s division he heads have regularly been recommended for their advisory work by leading international and Russian legal directories that rate lawyers and law firms, such as PLC Which Lawyer, the journal M&A, IFLR 1000, Pravo-300, Chambers Europe, and Legal 500.

Under Mr Sokov’s management, Pepeliaev Group’s corporate division has experienced significant growth, achieving impressive results. Pepeliaev Group’s corporate division now numbers three partners and around 50 lawyers, providing advisory services to and legal protection of the business of clients in such areas as: corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, support for investment projects, real estate and construction, antimonopoly regulation, securities and capital markets, private equity, nature management and environmental protection, pharmaceuticals and healthcare and telecommunications. Over the past three years, lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s corporate division have provided support on and closed transactions involving the sale and purchase of businesses with an overall value of more than USD 8 billion. 

“The fact that Vladimir has been elected a senior partner is the result of the successful performance of all the lawyers in the corporate division. Thanks to their expertise, we are receiving a lot more instructions from clients within large-scale investment and M&A projects”, says Sergey Pepeliaev, managing partner of Pepeliaev Group. “We encourage professional growth of our employees and help them to advance in their careers; this allows us perform increasingly large-scale tasks that our clients entrust to us,” Mr Pepeliaev adds.