Igor Gorchakov
Partner
Moscow
Igor Gorchakov
Partner
Moscow
Contact Details
Igor is an experienced and versatile Russian lawyer specialising in banking and dispute resolution, including domestic and cross-border litigations and arbitrations. His wide ranging banking and finance expertise includes general lending, syndicated lending, project finance, real estate finance, securitisation, derivatives and bank regulation. Igor also practises in the areas of international capital markets and M&A.
Igor is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb) and a member of Moscow Bar Association.
Igor is recognised as a leading practitioner by The Legal 500, Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and IFLR1000 legal directories. The current edition of Best Lawyers in Russia named Igor a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance, Litigation, Capital Markets, Corporate Law, M&A, and Project Finance and Development Practice.
Qualifications
Academic
Diploma in law (with high honours), St. Petersburg State University, 2000
Diploma in linguistics, English major, St. Petersburg State University School of Linguistics, 1996
Experience highlights
Advising VTB Leasing and GTLK on the insolvency of Transaero Airlines, the second biggest airline in Russia.
Advising Morgan Stanley Bank on the bankruptcy proceedings of South Oil Company, JSC being the guarantor under the syndicated loan agreement.
Advising Gazprombank on a RUB30bn credit facility for PJSC "State Transport Leasing Company" (GTLK), to finance the development of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 leasing program.
Advising Goldman Sachs International, ING Bank, Raiffeisen Bank International and AO Raiffeisenbank as mandated lead arrangers on the USD800m leveraged financing of the acquisition of a 70% stake in Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) by the Russian private equity funds Summa and GHP Group.
News & insights
Publications: 08 OCTOBER 2020
Covid-19 coronavirus: Insolvency Moratorium is extended until January 2021
Third follow-up on our alert of 10 April 2020.
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Publications: 07 AUGUST 2020
Russia: Law on categories of investors has been adopted
The Federal law dividing all investors in the financial market into two categories, regulating investment activities carried out by individuals and reforming the procedure by which non-qualified…
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Publications: 11 JUNE 2020
Covid-19 coronavirus: Judicial rescheduling during the Insolvency Moratorium in Russia
Second follow-up on our alert of 10 April 2020
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Publications: 27 APRIL 2020
Covid-19 coronavirus: Insolvency Moratorium is now optional in Russia
Follow-up on our publication dated 14 April 2020
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Qualifications
Academic
Diploma in law (with high honours), St. Petersburg State University, 2000
Diploma in linguistics, English major, St. Petersburg State University School of Linguistics, 1996
Recognition
Partner Igor Gorchakov is the firm's main force on the Russian finance law side.
Chambers Europe, 2016
