Marat Gainutdinov specializes in banking & finance with a particular focus on project finance transactions. Marat also has experience in debt restructuring as well as capital markets transactions.

Education, qualification

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Master's degree

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Bachelor's degree with Honors

Oxford Fund Scholarship for Academic Achievements

Experience

• Advising lenders in connection with construction and financing of the 303 km railway from Sohar (Oman) to Abu Dhabi (the UAE);
• Advising a sponsor in connection with construction and financing of Aluminium Mega City 1 in Yanbu, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
• Advising ECAs (Hermes, SACE and EXIAR) and a syndicate of 22 financial institutions on a multi-source €11.4bn project financing of the Amur Gas Processing Plant (AGPP) construction and development (with total capex of ca €19bn) in the Amur Region;
• Advising Mitsui in connection with its participation in Arctic LNG2 project in the Gydan Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia;
• Advising IFC in connection with financing of construction of a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan;
• Advising a consortium of lenders on financing the USD 1.5bn project on construction and development of Central Ring Motorway in Moscow Region (the 4th stage of construction);
• Advising Northern Capital Gateway LLC (Pulkovo Saint Petersburg Airport operator) on refinancing of its USD 570m project financing debt owed to a syndicate of lenders;
• Advising a syndicate of lenders on the refinancing of ADNOC Drilling's multi-billion dollar term credit facility;
• Advising Raiffeisen Bank, China Construction Bank and UniCredit Bank on extending USD 75m financing to a major Russian oil equipment producer;
• Advising Ozon, one of the largest retail marketplaces in Russia, on raising an up to RUB 6bn secured bridge loan for general corporate purposes that was extended by Sberbank Investments;
• Advising a European agro-industrial company on USD 200m facility agreement entered into with a major Swiss bank;
• Advising a Russian borrower (whose subsidiary operates several sections of Western High-Speed Diameter Highway, a toll road near Saint-Petersburg) in connection with RUB 13.7bn secured financing extended by two major Russian banks;
• Advising a Russian coal mining group on corporate restructuring and refinancing of its USD 2bn debt owed to a major Russian bank;
• Advising Borets International Limited on its USD 330m Eurobond offering;
• Advising Global Ports on its USD 350m Eurobond offering;
• Advising Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Int, HSBC, ING Bank, J.P.Morgan, SIB as the global coordinators and joint bookrunners on issue of USD 500m loan participation notes by EuroChem.