Ksenia Soloschenko is Senior Associate at Capital Legal Services.

Ksenia has vast experience in providing comprehensive support for real estate and construction projects, including projects on sale and acquisition of real estate, investment and construction projects, projects related to managing real estate, including hotels, lease and other uses of real estate.

Ksenia advises on urban planning legislation, protection of cultural heritage, legal issues related to operation of real estate, carries out due diligence of real estate and rights thereto. Ksenia regularly undergoes advanced training in the field of real estate and urban planning legislation.

Ksenia has experience in providing comprehensive support for transactions on acquiring/selling businesses, including those involving the management of real estate, and has expertise in structuring such transactions using mechanisms of English law.

Ksenia has successful experience in representing Russian and foreign companies in Russian commercial arbitration courts in disputes related to fulfillment of contracts, as well as in bankruptcy cases, successful expertise in representing clients in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, as well as experience in pre-trial dispute resolution.

Ksenia’s expertise also includes advising on commercial law issues, developing supply contracts, including international ones, developing distribution agreements and other contracts. Ksenia also advises clients on anti-corruption compliance, regularly conducts training and presentations, risk assessments, and drafts documents and recommendations for clients.

Education 

• St. Petersburg State University, Law School (Bachelor degree), 2007
• St. Petersburg State University, Law School (Master degree), 2011
• St. Petersburg State University, Philology (supplemental education under the program “Translator in the field of professional communication”), 2007
• St. Petersburg State University, Law School, advanced training program “Construction and real estate transactions,” 2012
• St. Petersburg State University, Law School, advanced training program “Legal issues of land use and real estate,” 2018
• Legal Institute “M-Logos,” advanced training program “Tools of English contract law in structuring of transactions under Russian law,” 2018

Languages

• Russian;
• English.

Recent experience 

• Due diligence and support of transactions of foreign clients on exiting the Russian market through the sale of assets, in particular, business centers, warehouses and industrial facilities, land plots;
• Support of a project on construction of a client’s plant in an industrial park;
• Due diligence of projects and comprehensive support of transactions on acquisition of real estate by a major owner of residential real estate in St. Petersburg;
• Support of a transaction related to acquisition of rights to a real estate facility for the subsequent opening of a supermarket of a major retail chain;
• Representing an owner of aquatic entertainment center in court in the course of consideration of cases on collecting debts, declaring the contract terminated and lifting an encumbrance from the property;
• Multiple training seminars and advising on anti-corruption compliance for employees of Russian divisions of a foreign company. Drafting legal memoranda on anti-corruption compliance;
• Participation in a sale and purchase transaction of a cultural heritage object under an intergovernmental agreement, support of transactions for the subsequent lease and sublease of the object.