Valery Lavrov

Valery is counsel at White Square, Dubai office.

Valery has extensive experience in advising leading Russian and international companies on corporate law and M&A, investments, private equity, restructurings, and business structuring.

Valery’s experience includes working at the leading international law firm White & Case (offices in Moscow and Sydney).

Selectel, the largest independent IT infrastructure provider, the top 3 Russian IaaS companies by revenue, in connection with:

• the acquisition of United Network, which operates under the Servers.ru, Exepto.ru and Fozzy.ru brands; and
• the acquisition by a Tier-5 investment partnership of a 25% stake in Selectel

Autostels, leading spare parts trading platform, in connection with acquisition of its 19.91% by Severgroup Investments

Rostelecom, an unrivalled Russian leader in the telecom industry, in connection with:

• the creation of a joint venture in relation to the operator of the unified biometric system of the Russian Federation
• disposal of a 44.8% stake in SafeData, leading data center and cloud service provider in Russia, to VTB Bank for US$464.3 million via JV deal
• acquisition of 75% of the developer of Sailfish mobile operating system

VTB Capital, Russia’s leading investment bank:

• as financial advisor to the seller, Transtelecom, a leading Russian telecom operator owned by Russian Railways, in connection with the sale of shares in Zapsibtranstelecom and TTK-Svyaz
• as financial advisor to Russian Railways (seller) in the auction sale of 100% minus one share in the charter capital of JSC VRK-2, Russia-based provider of rail car and wagon repair services
• as financial advisor and auction manager to UTLC (a subsidiary of the Russian Railways) in the US$968 million sale of 50% + 2 shares in the charter capital of PJSC Transcontainer via auction process

Major multinational retailing company in connection with its sale of 100% stake in the companies operating 27 home improvement supplies retail stores in Russia to a private investor

Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers Pty in connection with the creation of joint venture of US$4.2 billion Karratha Urea Project in Western Australia

Embassy of the Republic of Korea in connection with its acquisition of building and land plot in Moscow for the allocation of the ambassador’s residence