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ANTON V. KALININ

Mob. number: +417******** e-mail: acy6nn@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATIONAL

BACKGROUND

**/****–08/2006: LLM, University of London (Queen Mary), Chevening scholar, International finance law, banking law, capital markets. www.qmul.ac.uk 09/1997– 06/2002: Perm State University Law School (Russia), commercial law. www.psu.ru PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

01/2013 – 08/2016: Bryce Group, Chief Legal Officer, Director. www.bryce.ch (Moscow, Geneva, B permit)

Heading a group of lawyers of one of international oil traders. Overall legal support of a group of companies

(Oil products trading, consulting, logistics, transactions structuring) in the area of corporate law, finance law, tax law, contract law, laws of foreign jurisdictions, corporate restructuring, debt restructuring, consulting. Reporting directly to the beneficial owner of the Group I provided overall support on various legal, managerial, administrative matters and on all the beneficial owner’s major projects (of a private and corporate nature) in various jurisdictions.

Core responsibilities:

- overall legal support of the Group's business activity in the area of corporate law, finance law, tax law, contract law, trade law, laws of foreign jurisdictions, deals structuring, corporate governance and consulting. The group includes 15 entities located in various jurisdictions off shore and on shore, major business is oil products and soft commodities trading, consulting, logistics;

- M&A practice (a merger of a Swiss company and panama based company within the group, interaction with the Swiss legal advisers and auditors);

- review of all major financing (mostly trade finance) transaction documentation with core Swiss banks.

- drafting, negotiating of most important agreement with majors (Glencore, Vitol, etc.) regarding the shareholder's personal guaranties, major supply agreement, shareholder’s agreements, etc;

- drafting and negotiating of various trade related agreements (supply of cured oil to one of the Russia based refineries, processing agreements, exporting of oil products agreements), providing legal support to logistic team on various agreements and related matters.

- providing expert opinion and undertaking feasibility studies on various the Group's investment projects in various jurisdictions in the area of hard /soft commodities trading, immovable property purchasing, entertainment business, consumer supply related business.

- general corporate, administrative and managerial duties as a director of two Swiss companies (corporate compliance, liaison with authorities, corporate governance, etc).

- litigation and conflict resolution work (quality / quantity related disputes, railway claims, etc. financing, taxation, etc.)

- corporate structuring and taxation.

- coordination of work of lawyers in Minsk and Moscow offices and external consultants in various jurisdictions.

11/2010 – 01/2013: Vanguard, Moscow, Counsel, legal. Personal adviser to the managing partner. An advisory and consulting company offers legal and finance consulting services and investment solutions. The firm provides advisory services to governmental bodies, corporates, high-profile individuals and private clients. Preparation of extended information memorandum on Rosatom (corporate, legal, managerial issues) in cooperation with EPIC Fund under the client’s request – AREVA (www.areva.com) in relation to potential joint venture projects in Russia. Various memos on legal matters in relation to requests of United Aircraft Corporation, drafting amendments to current Russian legislation re financing of the aviation industry (Sukhoi Super Jet project) and re drafting the State federal programme on development of Russian aviation industry. Transactional work re various financing deals (fund participation, vanilla loans, secured lending, etc.), transaction structuring. Client liaison and project management. Legal due-diligence of target companies, drafting of sale and purchase agreements, drafting of various contracts related to real estate and development projects, letters on intention, overall legal support of clients’ projects and the company’s corporate matters. 01/2010 – 05/2011: OJSC Angstrem, Moscow, Counsel, ecorporate and legal. (11/2010-05/2011 part- time involvement to finalize the project).

Anti-crisis management project. Restructuring of EURO 815 mln. secured loan facility, projects in the area of corporate finance, internal finance and corporate restructuring work including mergers of the companies, off- shore/on-shore corporate matters. Corporate practice and various contracts drafting, including real estate matters, construction, resolving antimonopoly issues, legal regulatory issues, memos drafting on various legal matters upon shareholder’s requests, Representing interests of the beneficial owner of the Group of companies with Russian Government, Minpromtorg, VEB and various state authorities. Drafting funding participation programme agreements, plain vanilla facility agreements as well as various off-shore security documents re the group’s financing projects. Overall corporate legal and contractual work support of the group’s business. 09/2007 – 01/2010: Herbert Smith, Moscow, Associate. (www.herbertsmith.com). Secured lending, project financing and securitisation. Drafting various security documents for Russian and foreign banks and companies in connection with loan facility transactions; Advising a number of resident and non-resident borrowers in real estate secured financial transactions; Advising resident and non-resident companies on inter group loans (secured and unsecured); Advising various clients on currency regulations, general banking and financial matters, preparation of information memorandums on various legal matters. Managing junior associates and trainees on various matters.

09/2006-09/2007: Baker & Mckenzie, Moscow, Associate, (www.bakermckenzie.com). Various corporate matters, including contracts drafting and negotiation. Securitisation and structured finance transactions, bond issues, loan facilities and syndicated loans, advising major international banks and companies, pre-acquisition companies’ due-diligence. Companies’ legal due-diligence. 03/2003–02/2006: Russian Information and News Agency «RIA Novosti»), (currently “Russia Today TV”). http://www.ria.ru (Moscow / London).

High level of my professional qualification affected my speedy career growth and allowed me to be quickly promoted. I was personally responsible and coordinated legal issues of several major international company’s projects: due diligence of launching State International TV news channel “Russia Today” http://www.rttv.ru as well as other mass media; due diligence of opening of company’s subsidiaries and representative offices in more than 30 overseas countries; monitoring of current company’s activity in the area of corporate and commercial law; supervising on drafting of cross-border transactions agreements; functioning with real estate abroad, bargaining with foreign companies and Russian residents and contract drafting and negotiation; undertaking of business correspondence with State authorities, legal consulting. PERSONAL

DESCRIPTION

Native Russian currently based in Geneva effective lawyer with ability to work in a team, meet challenges and deliver outstanding results. At all times I have found myself to be a potential leader, dependable, reliable, respectable, highly trusted and valued member of a team with abilities to accomplish the goals targeted. I consider myself to be disciplined and self-motivated, career, success and result oriented with outstanding managerial skills, excellent listening skills, good research and writing as well as with exceptional executive presentation skills, adaptive to work in dynamically developing surroundings with positive attitude and ability to negotiate and maintain effective business relations according to international business practice and diplomacy.

ADDENDUM REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS, CASES AND MATTERS CORPORATE MATTERS

• EUROSET on various corporate matters, various contracts drafting, legal opinions and memos preparation.

• Apple Europe Limited, on various corporate matters, various contracts drafting, legal opinions and memos preparation.

• AREVA (France) in relation to preparation of legal information memorandum re joint venture with Rosatom.

• DVI Holding Company in relation to financing of purchase by Credit Swiss the company's shares.

• KBC re EURO 761 million acquisition of Absolut bank in Russia.

• Kanam Grund Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBM re pre-acquisition of target financial entity (full legal due diligence re financial standing of the target).

• Mint Capital LLC re acquisition transaction of a target (legal due diligence of the target CJSC).

• Emerson Electrics Co. and its affiliated companies on various corporate matters.

• AGIP Kazahstan Nort, on various corporate matters. LOANS and SECURED FACILITIES

• Angstrem Group of companies in relation to restructuring of Euro 815 mln. loan facility provided by VEB

(Vensheconombank).

• Lehman Brothers in relation to financing organized for a Russian borrower.

• Merrill Lynch in relation to financing organized for a Russian borrower.

• TRUST Management / TRUST Investment Bank in connection with a various secured facilities to a real estate developers and other corporates backed by notes under the bank's LPN programme.

• Deutsche Bank in connection to financing provided to a Russian borrower.

• Goldman Sachs in relation to financing provided to a Russian borrower.

• RTM TC in connection to various financing transactions.

• Lehman Brothers Int. in relation to US$ 90,000,000 ROSGOSSTRAKH financing.

• ING Bank N.V. on its RUR$1,200 million term loan facility to The National Factoring Company.

• ING Bank N.V. on its USD 29 million term loan facility to the Russian Agricultural bank.

• Husky International on its EURO 130,000 inter-company loan agreement (drafting the agreement and advising on security collateral).

• Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg on its EURO 10 million facility agreement to Russian borrower. SECURITISATION and CAPITAL MARKET TRANSACTIONS

• Ashmore and Spinnaker investment funds on a private equity consortium on financing a mine in Yemen.

• Morgan Stanley in relation to feasibility of securitisation of MBS portfolio of one of the major Russian banks.

• Probusinessbank in relation to securitisation of its receivables portfolio (feasibility study memorandum and legal risks report).

• BNP Paribas Moscow (ZAO) on its USD 40 million structured financing deal.

• ATON International Ltd. on the structuring and execution of the first Russian municipal loans RUR 45 billion securitisation for Moskovsky Zalogoviy Bank (MZB) (overall legal support, including drafting of Russian law related documents).

• Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort on USD 500 million securitisation of personal instalment loans for Alfa-Bank (overall legal support, including drafting of all Russian law related documents).

• Promsvyazbank on securitisation of consumer receivables. (feasibility study, due diligence, providing recommendations for amendment of the bank's standard documentation).

• UniCredit Bank Advising on the securitisation of credit cards receivables.

• ING Bank re 2007 debut Eurobond issue for OJSC “MTT”.

• Dresdner Bank AG and UBS Limited in connection with Eurobond issue for Absolut Bank.

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