Alexey Mareev

Alexey is a partner at White Square splitting time between Moscow and Dubai offices of the firm. He has been based in the UAE since 2022.

Alexey specialises in M&A transactions, including private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, strategic investments and venture capital/growth capital investments. Alexey acted for a wide range of clients, including corporates, financial sponsors, multilateral institutions and government entities across multiple sectors.

From 2008 to 2025, Alexey worked at the leading international law firm A&O Shearman (formerly named Allen&Overy) in Moscow, Dubai and London offices.

ING Bank, BNP Paribas Cardif, TetraPak, Societe Generale, Imperial Tobacco, De Lage Landen, IMI, Tyco Electronics, Mammoet, Algeco, Beam Suntory, Gerry Weber on divestment of their Russian operations

Mubadala/Kelix on acquisition of the UAE based pharmaceutical assets from GOHH and Julphar

NMDC Group on acquisition of various assets including an oil and gas service company, Emdad

ADGM on a joint venture in the financial sector

Familia on various minority buy out deals and redomiciliation

Veon (Beeline) on sale of its tower company to Servis-Telecom

Sber on creation of an ecosystem for the development of artificial intelligence in health care with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)

Mail.ru Group on its investment into Uchi Group, Russia’s leading platform within the K-12 e-learning segment

O2O Holding on its acquisition of 100% in Foodplex through a purchase of stake from several founders and financial investors

Black Earth Farming Ltd, a public company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, on the sale of its core agricultural operations to Volgo-DonSelkhozInvest LLC

Etalon Group, one of Russia’s largest and longest-established development and construction companies, in respect of purchase of a 51% stake in Leader-Invest JSC from Sistema PJSFC, a publicly-traded diversified holding company, and its affiliates

Gazprom in relation to the South Stream and TurkStream gas trans-European pipeline project

Rambler Group, one of Russia’s largest media companies, on its repurchase of a 6% stake in the Group’s holding company Epokha Digital LLC (Russia) from ERA Capital and the restructuring of the existing shareholders’ arrangements with respect to Rambler Group

International Investment Bank in relation to an overhaul of their corporate governance and capital structure