DLA Piper strengthens Real Estate offering with leading team hire in Russia

DLA Piper announces the appointment of Marc Bartholomy as senior counsel in its Moscow-based Real Estate practice. Marc joins the firm from Clifford Chance together with a team made up of legal director Nick Diakoumis, senior associate Anna Krutik and associate Alexandra Kuznetsova.

With more than 25 years of experience, Marc’s practice focuses on real estate projects, including acquisitions and disposals, construction and development, financing and leasing. Additionally, he has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other types of investment projects in Russia and the CIS across a broad range of sectors.

This four-strong Real Estate team, led by Marc, has been widely recognised as a leader in transactional real estate and ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and Tier 1 by Legal 500 since 2016. They join a Real Estate practice of 15 lawyers based in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Commenting on the new hire, Constantine Lusignan, country managing partner of DLA Piper in Russia and the CIS, said: “Marc and his team are no doubt a great complement to our practice as this hire marks a further step in the continued growth of DLA Piper’s Russian business.”

Marc Bartholomy said: “The team and I are very excited about joining DLA Piper Real Estate team and look forward to contributing to the further expansion of this already successful practice, helped by the synergies that exist within a market leading firm and the full service offering that it has.”