EPAM is the first runner-up in the ratings of legal advisers on securitization and mortgage bonds prepared by CBonds Information Agency.

The ratings are based on the assessment of the law firms’ performance on the Russian securitization and mortgage securities market by the number of supported transactions, the number of lenders the funds have been borrowed for under a transaction, etc.

The Firm’s Banking & Finance and Capital Markets Practice is a leading one on the market. Over the last year, EPAM’s Banking & Finance and Capital Markets Practice Team headed by Partner Dmitriy Glazounov has provided legal support to a number of landmark transactions on the market.

Thus, the Firm’s lawyers have contributed to successful closing of the asset securitization for Sberbank of Russia OJSC, Bank of Moscow OJSC, Khanty-Mansiysk Bank Otkrytie PJSC, Absolut Bank JSCB, URALSIB OJSC, Housing Funding Bank, AK BARS OJSC, SOYUZ JSCB, Tatfondbank OJSC. The Firm’s lawyers have also provided a comprehensive legal support for the Russia’s unique issue of convertible bonds by TransFin-M PJSC.  

The high level of the practice lawyers’ expertise has been recognized by a number of competent guides and professional awards, including Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR1000, Pravo.ru, as well as by dozens of other awards won over the recent years.