Morgan Lewis

Vasilisa Strizh

Partner

Vasilisa Strizh represents global and domestic strategic and financial investors across multiple industries, including financial services, mass media and telecommunications, energy, and pharmaceuticals and life sciences. Vasilisa’s practice focuses on cross-border investment, joint venture, and merger and acquisition transactions. Vasilisa also counsels on corporate governance and compliance and advises on capital market transactions and related regulatory matters. She has served as lead lawyer on complex corporate projects, including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, public and private equity offerings, financing, and structured settlements.

Extended Profile

Vasilisa serves as the Managing Partner of the Moscow office. She also leads Morgan Lewis’s pro bono legal services in Russia, providing advice to charities and other nonprofits helping persons of limited means.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Vasilisa was a partner in the corporate practice of an international law firm, resident in Moscow.

Vasilisa teaches legal writing basics (a practical study) at the Master’s School of the Law Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Education

  • Lomonosov Moscow State University, Law Faculty , 1992, J.D.

Admissions

  • Eligible in the Russian Federation

Awards and Affiliations

Recognized, Corporate Law, Moscow, The Best Lawyers in Russia (2020) 

Recognized, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Moscow, The Best Lawyers in Russia (2020)  

Ranked, Corporate/M&A, High-end Capability, Russia, Chambers Europe (2019) 

Ranked, Corporate/M&A, Russia, Chambers Global/Europe (2009–2018)

Recommended, Commercial, Corporate & M&A (Russia), The Legal 500 EMEA (2017–2018)

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