Areas of practice: Corporate, Intellectual property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Antitrust, Currency Exchange, Litigation
		Education: Diploma in Jurisprudence, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) (MGIMO), 1994 Bar Admission: 1999

Mr. Komissarov is a general corporate and intellectual property lawyer whose personal practice focuses primarily on counseling major software, industrial, retail, telecommunication, mass media, and technology companies. He has broad-based experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting a wide range of complex domestic and cross-boarder transactions, such as purchases and sales of companies, asset sales of industrial companies in Russia, joint ventures, strategic alliances, software license arrangements, commercial contracts, securitization and various finance transactions. He has advised a wide range of international clients on the formation and operation of subsidiaries in Russia. Mr. Komissarov has developed extensive experience handling complex restructurings.

Mr. Komissarov provides day-to-day counseling and business-oriented advice to the world’s largest software manufacturer in connection with its business in Russia. As part of this engagement, he regularly handles complex intellectual property matters, as well as the full range of general corporate issues.

Mr. Komissarov speaks English and Russian (native).

Practice details:

Intensively involved in legal support to the business activity of a major U.S. multinational computer software corporation and its Russian subsidiaries, such as drafting of an agreement for cooperation with governmental authorities in the area of information safety, and a comprehensive structural optimization of the presence and doing business in Russia.

Intensively involved in documentary due diligence and preparation of several legal opinions for a major U.S. investment institution and a major Swedish multinational telecommunication company regarding granting of big loans to major Russian telecommunication companies.

Representation of a major foreign investor and intensive involvement in legal support for acquisition of assets of a bankrupt Russian pulp and paper company.

Intensively involved in corporate restructuring of a major Russian publishing holding.

Assisted a Russian TV company in creation of a joint venture with a major U.S. media holding.

Representation of a group of foreign investors in the acquisition of stock and management of a major Russian group of banks.

Intellectual property: Computer software license agreements for corporate clients, governmental organizations and individuals.

Corporate law: Legal opinions for foreign investors regarding proposed loans to Russian companies, acquisition of assets in bankruptcy, voting rights of privileged stock holders, shareholders meetings; drafting and legal review of articles of incorporation and memorandums of association.

Contracts: Agreement for purchase of assets in bankruptcy, agreement for trust management of property; lease, leasing, joint activity, service, partnership, management, employment agreements; agreement for cooperation with governmental authorities in the area of information safety, agreement for acquisition of stock in and management of a bank group; commercial contracts.

Currency law: Loans in foreign currency to Russian companies, acquisition of stock in Russian companies for foreign currency; settlements in foreign currency and Russian rubles between foreign and Russian companies, and between companies and individuals.

Tax law: Taxation of foreign bank and company loans to Russian companies.

Litigation: Representation before a state commercial (arbitrazh) court of the major foreign shareholder of a Russian oil company acting as plaintiff in a dispute with another Russian oil company over the ownership of an oil well; representation before a state commercial court of the major foreign shareholder of a Russian oil company acting as plaintiff in a dispute with the state authorities over infringement of the right to use subsoil; representation of a foreign oil company acting as plaintiff in a dispute with a Russian bank over the termination of the pledge agreement.

Anti-monopoly law: Acquisition by foreign investors of the voting stock in a Russian company; acquisition by a foreign investor of the rights to manage a Russian company and serve on the board of directors of several Russian companies; acquisition of assets.