Alexander V. Marchenko

Associate

Note: This list includes engagements completed prior to joining Morgan Lewis.

• Assisting Statoil on a new large-scale E&P venture with Rosneft involving offshore blocks in the Barents and Okhotsk Seas.
• Assisting Itera, one of Russian leading independent gas producers, on its proposed strategic joint venture with a major Russian oil & gas company.
• Assisting Statoil on the major Shtokman offshore gas field development and LNG project, together with Gazprom and Total, in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea.
• Assisting a major French state power and utilities company in its proposed farm-in into one of Russia's major LNG projects.
• Advised Bashneft (and its controlling shareholder AFK Sistema) on the formation of its joint venture with Lukoil to develop the large Trebs-Titov field complex in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug; follow-up advice on the subsoil licensing issues of the JV.
• Assistance to Chevron, on a proposed large-scale E&P venture with Rosneft to develop a deepwater Russian Black Sea block.
• Advised Eni SpA on various aspects of its $5.8 billion acquisition at the 2007 Yukos assets bankruptcy auction of three gas and condensate producing companies in Russia and a 20% stake in Gazpromneft, follow-up support of this acquisition to date, and the 2009 sale of the Gazpromneft stake to Gazprom for $4.2 billion.
• Advised a major European energy company in its various upstream projects in Russia (including analysis of various non-equity structures).
• Assisted ArcelorMittal in its $720 million acquisition of a group of Eastern Siberia coal assets companies from Severstal of Russia.
• Represented a number of oil companies in their acquisition of various hydrocarbon interests in Russia over several years.
• Advised various clients on mineral resource regulatory aspects of public offerings, drafting relevant sections of public offering documents.
• Assisted various clients in preparation of various types of petroleum contracts with the Government of Turkmenistan-this work included assisting a major European company, a major Asian company, and various other companies in the drafting of their production-sharing agreements for various Turkmen fields, advising on other types of petroleum contracts in Turkmenistan, and advising on various ancillary matters.
• Assisted a major Russian bank in its various secured financing, corporate restructuring, and similar projects involving cross-jurisdictional advice.
• Provided ongoing legal support to a major steel and mining company in its various proposed acquisitions of producing and processing assets in Russia.
• Advised various clients (both in mineral resource and other sectors) on the newly enacted Russian laws restricting foreign investment in "strategic enterprises."
• Conducted extensive due diligence investigations into production companies and other corporate structures in Russia.