Yulia Cherepanova

For more than 20 years, Maria Grechishkina has advised U.S. and foreign clients on Russian law, corporate finance, litigation and arbitration matters. Her clients include oil and metallurgical businesses, banks and telecom companies. Prior to joining Marks & Sokolov, Maria served as in-house counsel for Nestle where she worked on the company’s M&A in Russia. From 2003 to 2005, she led the contracting department of VimpelCom, a major telecom provider in Russia, where she oversaw their transactional and licensing work, corporate finance matters, and negotiated multimillion dollar financing in foreign and domestic markets.

Maria holds a degree in English and French from Moscow State Linguistic University (1993), a law degree from Moscow State University, Lomonosov School of Law (1998) and an LLM from Temple University (2000). She is admitted to practice in both Russia and the U.S. (New York) and is fluent in Russian, English and French.

Experience

Yulia’s assisted in the following matters:

• Representation pertaining to 28 U.S.C. §1782 discovery proceedings in the United States in aid of foreign proceedings
• Canadian company’s dispute over Russian oil assets. The appellate court granted client’s appeal of the dismissal of the case on the grounds of forum non conveniens
• Obtaining a US court order granting recognition and relief under US Bankruptcy Code Chapter 15 in aid of insolvency procedures commenced in Russia;
• Preparation of expert opinions on various issues of Russian law
• Representation of plaintiff shareholders in a dispute over the management of the world’s largest ferroalloy plant.