Kirill Y. Ratnikov
PhD in law
According to the international rankings of the best lawyers "has a reputation as one of the few real experts in the field of PPP and is a prominent expert who participated in a number of major PPP projects in Russia and CIS countries".
For more than 10 years he has been working in international law firms such as Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen&Hamilton, Coudert Brothers and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. For 8 years he has been a partner of international law firms CMS Cameron McKenna and Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & partners, where he led the international practice of PPP and the practice of mergers and acquisitions.
He participated in infrastructure and PPP projects on the total amount of more than $ 50 billion, including such sectors as toll roads, airports, ports, bridges, hydroelectric power plants, wind and solar power plants, factories, infrastructure clusters, integrated development of territories, the development of Siberia and the Far East.
One of the developers of the Federal law "On concession agreements", he is member of the Committee on PPP at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, expert council on PPP and infrastructure of the State Duma and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), provides expert support for the development of legislation on project financing in the CIS.
Member of the Business Advisory Board on PPP of the UN economic Commission for Europe (UNECE Business Advisory Board) from Russia, member of the Association of independent Directors, and independent Director of Moskommertsbank (a subsidiary of the Russian Bank Kazkommertsbank).
Author of "New method of privatization and the sale of shares of Russian companies and banks abroad: American and Global Depository receipts" (two editions), co-author of a textbook on corporate governance issued under the auspices of the World Bank, the author and co-author of about 20 articles in various professional journals, including the Parker School Journal of East European Law (Columbia University), North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, Corporate Governance Review, "Moscow journal of international law", "Mergers and acquisitions", "securities Market" and other.
Recognition and awards:
He was noted in the ratings of "first tier" on PPP and infrastructure and for his work in Kazakhstan and the CIS, took high position in the ratings of leading lawyers in corporate law, construction and project finance, natural resources and energy. Awarded the award of the British magazine World Finance as "Best lawyer in Russia" 2013.