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Andrei Sheetkin PhD

Legal Director
Dubai
About

Andrei Sheetkin specialises in civil law, corporate law, mergers and acquisition and venture capital.

His experience covers legal advice on various corporate and civil law matters, including the day-to-day business of companies.

Andrei has rich experience in:

  • advising on mergers and acquisitions, in which he represents various types of the sellers and the purchasers, including founders, investment funds and private equity;
  • advising on cross-border and other types of corporate restructurings;
  • leading due diligence projects.

    In the venture capital, Andrei advises investors, founders and management of the venture companies in connection with:

  • fundraising (starting from early seed financings);
  • strategic sales; and
  • ·other matters related to the legal support of the venture capital business, including convertible loan agreements, SAFEs, employee share option plans, etc.

The above legal support includes matters under English law, Delaware law and Russian law.

Areas of FocusCorporatePrivate Equity
Professional QualificationsAdvocate registered with Advokatskaya Palata Moskovskoy OblastiAttorney-at-law admitted with the Supreme Court of New YorkSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Fundmates, Inc., a fintech platform providing financing to YouTube creators, in connection with the series seed financing;
  • Advising Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund LLC, Pan-African Venture Fund created with AfricInvest, in connection with the series A investment into Aura B.V., a company engaged in the development of a smart personal safety platform that provides businesses and their customers with fast, affordable and reliable private security and medical response;
  • Advising Finery Markets Limited, a leading multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets, in connection with the series seed financing from a number of EU/UK investors;
  • Advising Gero, a biotechnology company that provides therapeutics against chronic diseases, in connection with the series B investment;
  • Advising Jiffy, UK based platform developing SaaS and on-prem e-commerce solutions for retail business, in connection with еру series A 1 financing and a number of subsequent follow-on financings;
  • Advising AliExpress Russia, a joint venture between China’s Alibaba Group and a number of Russian investors, in connection with the sale of the majority stake in KazanExpress, Russian online marketplace;
  • Advising shareholders of a business engaged in food delivery and ready meals in connection with the sale of the majority stake in such business to the institutional investor;
  • Advising Hong Kong Wangsu Science & Technology Company Limited in connection with the sale of its stake in CDN-Video, a company involved in delivering content of customer’s site and applications, such as images, files, software, videos, live streams, etc. through Content Delivery Network (CDN) – a geographically distributed set of servers connected to ISPs and IXs, to PJSC VimpelCom;
  • Advising Busfor, Russia and Ukraine’s leading online bus ticketing platform, on its acquisition by BlaBlaCar, the long-distance carpooling platform;
  • Advising Gett, on several acquisitions of taxi-hailing companies;
  • Advising Dubai based professional laundry & dry-cleaning service in connection with changes to the shareholders' agreement;
  • Advising RE7 Capital, a crypto-asset investment firm, in connection with a joint venture focusing on сryptocurrency assets with Republic, private investing platform;
  • Advising Fix Price, a chain of low fix price stores, in connection with the redomiciliation from the Republic of Cyprus to the Republic of Kazakhstan (Astana International Financial Centre);
  • Advising Marlin Equity, a private equity fund, in connection with acquisition of a minority stake in ABBYY, a developer of document conversion, data capture and linguistic software designed to capture and extract information using artificial intelligence.
Languages
  • English
  • Russian
Education
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University, PhD in Law, 2020
  • Georgetown University Law Center, Master of Laws, 2013
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University, Specialist Degree in Jurisprudence (with honours), 2009

Publications

  • Author of “Liability of a controlling person towards participants of the controlled corporation,” Bulletin of Moscow University, Series 11: Law, No 3, 2020
  • Author of “Liability of a controlling person to third parties,” Entrepreneurial Law, No 2, 2020
  • Author of “Definition of corporate control and grounds when it arises,” Business and Law, No 5, 2020
  • Co-author of “Corporate Law: Topical Problems,” monograph edited by Dmitry Lomakin, 2015
  • Author of “Abuse of law by a controlling entity,” Business and Law, No 7, 2015
  • Author of “Concept, grounds and legal consequences of the establishment of corporate control,” Law Magazine, No 11, 2014
  • Author of “Restriction on the risk of corporation participants: benefits, disadvantages and possible remedies,” Law Magazine, No 5, 2014

Seminars

Andrei leads a comparative corporate law course at the Lomonosov Moscow State University for graduate students and has several publications on various corporate law matters.

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