Yaroslav Smorodin

Associate

Yaroslav Smorodin acts on a broad scope of financing mandates ranging from plain vanilla facilities to commodity repo transactions. With extensive experience in complex corporate finance, acquisition finance, project finance, prepayment and pre-export finance transactions, Yaroslav also frequently represents the firm’s domestic and international clients in the course of insolvency proceedings and assists with debt restructurings and LBOs. A native Russian speaker, Yaroslav is also fluent in English.

Selected Representations

Acting for the trading arm of one of the largest state-owned banks in Russia in connection with a RUB 100 billion commodity repo with a major aluminum producer.
Acting for a syndicate of banks arranged by ING and UniCredit in connection with an up to US $1 billion financing for EuroChem Group AG.
Acting for the project company of a prominent Russian investment group in connection with the secured financing for the construction of a methanol production plant in Volgograd in Russia, with the total project value exceeding US $800 million.
Acting for EVRAZ in connection with a US $750 million syndicated facility arranged by UniCredit.
Acting for one of the largest state-owned banks in Russia in connection with a EUR 500 million secured financing for an SPV created for the purposes of development of certain ore deposits in the Taimyr region of Russia.
Acting for a major international trading house in connection with a syndicated US $250 million secured pre-export facility for a major Kazakh oil and gas producer.
Acting for one of the largest state-owned banks in Russia in connection with a US $200 million Rouble equivalent financing of a major Kazakh gas supply company.
Acting for Vitol in connection with a US $184 million secured prepayment facility for a private Russian oil refinery.
Acting for one of the largest state-owned banks in Russia in connection with a secured EUR 150 million financing for the construction of a plant for processing of polymetallic ores in the Republic of Buryatia in Russia (1st stage).
Acting for one of the largest state-owned banks in Russia in connection with a RUB 8.2 billion financing of the acquisition of a Russian IT company providing B2B cloud solutions.
Representing a syndicate of international banks with a US $70 million claim in connection with two bankruptcy proceedings relating to entities of the Russian metallurgical group Red October.