Mikhail is the head of our finance and capital markets practice and a corporate/M&A partner. His areas of practice include banking, finance, restructuring and insolvency, capital markets, domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity deals in the retail, financial and natural resources sectors. His experience includes advising on several multibillion-dollar M&A deals, corporate reorganisations, debt and equity listings.
Mikhail worked at Freshfields from 1996 to 2022 and has been a partner of the firm for 17 years. In 2022, he was one of the co-founders of his present law firm.
Mikhail graduated with honours from the law school of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1996 and has a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the University of Illinois. Mikhail is qualified to practise law in Russia, England and Wales, and the State of New York (USA). He speaks Russian, English, French, German and Italian.