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What she specialises in

Natalia specialises in real estate, corporate law, and environment protection. She has a vast experience in providing legal support to foreign and Russian clients.

Her main achievements

Natalia’s professional experience is over 20 years and includes legal support in real estate transactions, structuring transactions in Russian and in the CIS countries, establishing joint ventures, providing legal support in investment projects, and advising clients on a wide range of issues associated with the exploration and development of the largest deposits of oil, gas and other types of minerals.

Projects include:

• providing legal assistance to a development unit of VTB group in connection with the proposed acquisition and further development of a number of real estate projects in Moscow and Moscow Region (including an acquisition of an integrated plant); due diligence of the development sites, expert review of Russian law issues and transactional support;
• providing legal support for many years to Zarubezhneft JSC on a wide range of issues in real estate, corporate law, oil and gas, and on environmental protection;
• providing legal support within a project of Gazprom group involving the construction of a plant in Bashkortostan for manufacturing super-absorbent polymers with a production capacity of 45,000 tons per year. Super-absorbents based on acrylic polymers are included in the action plan for import substitution in the chemical industry of Russia approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Once the import substitution project is implemented the company will be able to cover 60-70% of the demand for super-absorbents in the territory of Russia;
• providing comprehensive support in connection with an incident at a client’s facility (a Russian mining and smelting company) which caused a national environmental catastrophe - one of the largest oil spills in the Arctic zone in history. The amount of claims of the Russian environmental regulator (“Rosprirodnadzor”) was approximately 2 billion USD;
• providing legal support to a major oil refinery (largest in Russia) located in West Siberia when the court was considering a lawsuit of Rosprirodnadzor seeking total suspension of work of the whole refinery due to the alleged environmental violations;
• •advising on the full scope of Russian law in connection with the implementation of a project for the development of the Shtokman gas condensate field.

What they say

“Clients recommend a ‘tough negotiator’ Natalia Stenina, one of the heads of the real estate practice” (The Legal 500).

“Natalia Stenina, our key contact, has a high level of professional knowledge, as well as the ability to quickly acquire new skills as required by the project. She showed herself very well in a number of difficult and contradictory situations and managed to coordinate the work in such a way that the lawyers from her team also adhered to this line” (The Legal 500). 

“Our projects at Pepeliaev Group are managed by Natalia Stenina. In cases where support is provided to us directly by her, we receive highly professional advice on a wide range of issues that are fully consistent with both our needs and existing legislation. If Natalia acts as the head of a team of lawyers of different specialisations, we are always confident in the optimal selection of team members and clear coordination of their work” (The Legal 500).