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Anatoly Andriash has over 27 years' experience in international transactions involving major Russian oil, gas and mining companies. He specializes in corporate and commercial law, including M&A transactions and joint ventures with an industry focus. As a partner in the Corporate practice, Anatoly manages the firm's energy and natural resources projects.

Anatoly advises Russian and international companies in various sectors of the economy on a wide range of cross-border transactions, but is particularly known for large-scale transactions related to the mining and processing of mineral resources, the development of optimal corporate strategies for companies in the energy sector, and M&A transactions in the energy, oil and gas sectors.

Anatoly is a member of the Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the Mining Advisory Council's Legislative Working Group, having previously served on the organization's governing body since its founding in 1999.

Leading legal directories regularly rank Anatoly among the leading lawyers in the energy, natural resources, mining and oil and gas industries, as well as in M&A and project finance: Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, IFLR1000, Pravo-300. In 2021, Anatoly was named an industry “stand-out” by Acritas Stars. In the Pravo-300 and Kommersant rankings Anatoly is recommended in the Energy and Natural Resources industries, and Kommersant recommends him in the field of Environmental Law.

SERVICES
AND PRACTICE AREAS

ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Practices

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Industries

EDUCATION

Master of Science in International Finance and Management, Open University Business School London, 2010
MBA, Open University Business School London, 2005
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO), 1994

CLIENTS
AND PROJECTS

ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY PJSC

Advised Rosneft on the sale of a minority stake in Vankorneft JSC and related joint operating arrangements to ONGC Videsh Limited. Vankorneft JSC is one of Rosneft's principal production subsidiaries holding licences for the Vankor field in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia

NOVATEK

Advised on marketing and transportation issues in connection with the establishment of a joint venture for a natural gas production and liquefied natural gas project

Shell

Advised Shell in connection with its planned acquisition of a 50% stake in Meretoyakhaneftegaz LLC from Gazprom Neft PJSC to implement Russia's largest oil production project in five years. This new joint venture is being set up to further develop the Tazovskoye and Meretoyakhinskoye oil and gas fields and certain other oil and gas condensate fields in Western Siberia

Shell

Advised Shell regarding a proposed acquisition of a 25% stake in Gazpromneft-AeroBryansk LLC and the establishment of a new oil and gas joint venture between Gazprom Neft PJSC (50%) and Repsol (25%). As a result of Repsol's withdrawal from the transaction, it was subsequently restructured into a 50/50 joint venture between Gazprom Neft PJSC and Shell

ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY PJSC

Advised Rosneft on the sale of a 33.3% stake in SevComNeftegaz LLC, a company developing the Severo-Komsomolskoye field, and related joint venture arrangements to Statoil

AWARDS
AND RANKINGS

kommersant 2023

- Energy and

natural resources
(Band 1)
- Environmental law

(Band 1)

Chambers and Partners

Individual recognition in the field of "Energy and Natural Resources"

2008 - 2021 гг.

Acritas Stars

Eminent jurist, 2021

Legal 500

Lead attorney in the Energy and Natural Resources industry, 2019-2021

Best Lawyers

Energy & Natural Resources, Investments, M&A, Oil & Gas, Project Finance, Telecommunications, 2011-2021

IFLR1000

Leading Lawyer - recommended on the Russian market in Energy and Natural Resources, M&A, Project Development, Project Financing, 2019 – 2021

Pravo-300

Recommended lawyer in the field of Natural Resources and Energy, 2020

Who’s Who Legal International

Energy, Mining, 2013-2021

FEEDBACK AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Anatoly Andriash provides advice based on valuable expert experience.

Legal 500

Anatoly Andriash has a long-standing reputation in the Russian energy market. He is best known for his industry expertise in legal regulation.

Chambers & Partners

Anatoly Andriash is "well known to market observers for his experience in the energy sector".

Chambers & Partners

Anatoly Andriash "has extensive experience in Russian M&A transactions in the energy sector".

Legal 500

WRITTEN WORKS

Co-author of the Law and Practice section of the Chambers & Partners publication Energy: Oil & Gas 2020 – Russia
Co-author of the Law and Practice section of the Chambers & Partners publication Energy: Oil & Gas 2019 – Russia
Co-author of the Law and Practice section of the Russia section of the Chambers & Partners publication Mining 2019
Co-author of the article "The New Civil Code of the Russian Federation: the Future of Contract Law and the Law of Obligations" in the journal Economy and Life, No. 10b, 2013
Interview for Oil and Gas Journal on the dangers for Russia's oil industry posed by high taxes and aging fields, February 2008
Co-author of the article "Some Practical Recommendations on the Implementation of the New Law On the Subsoil", published in the journal Oil and Gas Vertical, March 2000

NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

05 / 04 / 2023

LEVEL Legal Services - No. 1 in the rating of the business publication Kommersant

On April 5, 2023, Kommersant Publishing House published the results of a survey of legal services market leaders, where LEVEL Legal Services holds leading positions in 28 legal and industry practices, and 11 lawyers of the firm received individual recognition

14 / 03 / 2023

LEVEL Legal Services as a member of the Mining Advisory Council

LEVEL Legal Services officially joined the Mining Advisory Council

21 / 02 / 2023

"Pravo-300" rating recommends 9 partners and practice heads of LEVEL Legal Services in individual rating of lawyers

On February 21, 2023, the "Pravo-300" ranking published individual lawyer recommendations following the release of the main survey results. The ranking recommends all partners and practice heads of LEVEL Legal Services in 14 areas of law in which the firm has been ranked as a leader in the federal Law-300 ranking.

20 / 12 / 2022

Anatoly Andriash joins the corporate practice of LEVEL Legal Services as a partner with expertise in the energy and natural resources sector

Anatoly Andriash, a partner with a long-standing reputation as a leading international energy and natural resources lawyer, has joined LEVEL Legal Services. Anatoly specializes in corporate and commercial law, including M&A transactions and joint ventures with an industry focus.