Roman Dulatov

Education and research

He graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Law with honors.

He completed advanced training programs at St. Petersburg State University in the fields of contract law, construction and real estate acquisition, economics and marketing.

Work experience and practice

Roman Dulatov has 30 years of professional experience. He has worked, among other things, in the legal services of large enterprises operating in the real estate, telecommunications and wholesale sectors, in European and Russian law firms, advising individuals and legal entities, including foreign ones, in various branches of law.

He was involved in corporate and other key legal issues related to the activities of mobile and fixed-line operators, participated in the due diligence of companies that were subject to acquisitions in the interests of foreign and Russian clients, developed draft memoranda of intent, purchase and sale agreements for shares and shares of Russian and foreign legal entities, various real estate objects, marine vessels, prepared drafts of shareholders' agreements, option agreements, He provided legal support for attracting various forms of financing from Russian and foreign credit institutions, obtaining permits and approvals from antimonopoly and other government agencies, registering joint ventures, accrediting representative offices and branches of foreign legal entities, and conducting court cases in the interests of foreign clients. He supervised the contractual work of a development company, was involved in the structuring and support of transactions for the purchase and sale of land, commercial and residential real estate.

Among the successful projects of Roman Dulatov are the following:

• purchase of one of the largest alternative operators in the digital fixed-line market in the Northwestern region of Russia from an American corporation investing in telecommunications and mass media, and raising financing in the amount of more than 200 million US dollars;
• sale of a large printing company specializing in the offset roll and sheet printing market in Moscow to an international financial group at a transaction price of 40 million US dollars;
• the takeover of an insurance company, which was one of the leaders of the insurance market in the North-Western region of Russia, in the interests of an international insurance and investment group;
• sale of a company specializing in the production of low-alcohol products in St. Petersburg in favor of a group of companies that holds a significant share in the alcohol production market in Russia;
• sale of a non-residential building located in the historical center of Moscow and operated as a business center for subsequent reconstruction and placement of apartments in it;
• sale of lease rights for a land plot with a total area of about 12 thousand square meters.m. with investment conditions for the construction of a residential complex in St. Petersburg;
• development and implementation of an investment project for the organization of residential and public-business buildings in the center of St. Petersburg on an area of more than 250 thousand square meters.m.;
• acquisition of rights to a land plot of about 12 hectares for low-rise cottage construction in St. Petersburg;
• sale and acquisition of rights to implement other investment projects related to the construction or reconstruction of residential and commercial real estate in St. Petersburg;
• entry of foreign investors into various Russian companies operating in the field of telecommunications, trade, cargo transportation by sea, stevedoring services, participation in negotiations and conclusion of purchase and sale agreements, management agreements between shareholders (participants) of such companies, option and other agreements;
• conducting legal research in relation to companies whose shares (stakes) are considered as objects of acquisition by potential investors; representing the interests of the head of one of the largest construction companies in St. Petersburg in a dispute over bringing him to subsidiary liability in a bankruptcy case with more than 4 billion rubles in creditors' claims.;
• peaceful resolution of a major corporate conflict between the co-owners of the largest food production enterprise in the North–West of Russia (the corporate conflict involved the resolution of more than 25 interrelated arbitration cases, the amount of mutual claims of the parties was over 700 million rubles);
• conducting a case on the division of the spouses' common property, complicated by the need to search for assets to be divided throughout the Russian Federation and abroad (the value of the property is over 800 million rubles);
• legal support for major transactions involving the acquisition/alienation of real estate and shares in the authorized capital of business entities, including in the context of anti–sanctions regulation;
• preparation of documents for the establishment of a personal fund in order to protect and optimize asset management worth more than 700 million rubles;
• legal support for the restructuring of the legal entities that made up the holding (consulting on the optimal business structuring option); conducting a case in a court of general jurisdiction on the division of the spouses' common property, which includes a holding company controlling a significant number of legal entities (the value of the property is over 10 billion rubles).

Roman is distinguished by his professionalism, attention to detail, and individual approach to each case.

He is fluent in English.