Andrei Sheetkin

Andrei Sheetkin Partner, Head of Venture Capital, PhD andrei.sheetkin@denuo.legal

+7 495 221 44 99

Moscow

Leontievsky pereulok, 25

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

Andrei has rich experience in (i) advising on mergers and acquisitions, in which he represents various types of the sellers and the purchasers, including founders, investment funds and private equity, (ii) advising on cross-border transactions and various types of corporate restructurings, (iii) leading due diligence projects.

In the venture capital, Andrei advises investors, founders and management of the venture companies in connection with (i) fundraising (starting from early seed financings), (ii) strategic sales and exit transactions, (iii) 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.

Education

Lomonosov Moscow State University, PhD in Law, 2020

Georgetown University School of Law, LLM, 2013

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Law Degree, with honours, 2009

Languages

English
Russian

Qualifications

Advokat registered with the Moscow City Chamber of Advocates, Attorney-at-law admitted with the Supreme Court of New York, Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Advising Yango, a technology ecosystem, in connection with execution of the shareholders agreement with a minority partner in a joint venture doing ride hailing business in Oman
Advising Luchi (former BestDoctor), a fintech insurance company, in connection with several rounds of the investments and certain aspects of the redomiciliation of the top parent holding company from the Republic of Cyprus to Special Administrative District in Kaliningrad Region, Russia
Advising Yandex, a technology ecosystem, in connection with the acquisition of:
- the stake of Uber in the ride-hailing JV between Uber and Yandex in Eastern Europe
- eLama, an advertising platform for small agencies and small and medium-sized enterprises
- K50, a developer of a platform for automatisation of work with online advertising
- TheQuestion, a Q&A website
- FoodFox, a food delivery service from local restaurants
Advising Skyeng, an edtech company, in connection with:
- acquisition of Qmarketing Academy, online marketing and design school
- convertible loan agreements entered into by Skyeng (as a borrower) with a number of institutional lenders
Advising Borzo (former Dostavista), a crowdsourced same-day delivery service, in connection with several rounds of the equity investments
Advising Balance Platform, a developer of software for management of lending products, tariffs and margins, in connection with share transactions with Baring Vostok
Advising Baring Vostok, a private equity firm, in connection with:
- acquisition of a minority stake in Synergetic, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly detergents and cosmetics
- several transactions on the acquisition of shares in iTransition, custom software development company

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