Asters advised IFCon restructuring deal with Mriya

Asters has acted as a legal counsel to International Finance Corporation in connection with its recent restructuring deal with the Mriya group.

Overall, the restructuring negotiations and procedures took up to 20 months. Asters team’s advisory role covered multiple dimensions, including developing the legal and tax models of the deal, evaluation of different options, negotiating the proposed models on behalf of IFC, representing IFC in the Ukrainian enforcement and bankruptcy proceedings, developing complex contractual settlement mechanisms and assisting the parties with the antitrust clearance.

As an outcome, several IFC loan transactions have evolved in a component of the global restructuring deal involving all the major creditors of Mriya and, partially, a secured long-term lease deal among IFC and the newly created Mriya entities.

Asters banking, finance, restructuring and litigation teams were led by partner Iryna Pokanay and included counsel Gabriel Aslanian, associates Vitaliy KornevInna Bondarenko and Anatoliy Donets. Partner Constantin Solyar and senior associate Marina Golovko took care of the tax part of this project. Asters antimonopoly team consisted of partner Alexey Pustovit and associate Olena Tsygulska.

 

 

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