Andrey Zharskiy is the ALRUD Law Firm Partner, practicing advocate in Russia and solicitor in England and Wales. Andrey is Partner in Corporate and M&A Practice, heading Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Industry Group, Real Estate Practice and co-heading Crisis Management, Economic sanctions and Compliance practice. In 2023 Andrey was elected as a Finance and Investments Committee Chair at the Association of European Businesses.

Andrey has over 20 years of experience in providing legal support for complex and international corporate/M&A and commercial projects, with particular experience in energy and natural resources (including projects involving the extraction and processing of oil, gas, LNG, mining projects in Russia and Africa, infrastructure projects, off-take contracts and oil service contracts); real estate and construction projects (including EPC contracts on various international forms); industrial investment projects in Russia (including joint projects with the government).

Currently, Andrey is actively advising foreign and Russian clients on different issues related to restructuring/exit from the Russian market, sale/acquisition of business, as well as on Russian counter-sanctions regulations applicable to M&A deals and financing matters.

Andrey joined the ALRUD team in 2013 and became a Partner in 2015. Prior to joining ALRUD, Andrey worked at one of Russia's largest oil companies, and then as the head of the international legal department of a major international group, where he gained unique experience in handling M&A and JV transactions in the energy, metallurgy, and real estate sectors in Russia as well as China and Africa.

Education
Andrey Zharskiy graduated from Belarusian State University, Minsk, Department of Law (1993-1998); after conducting post-graduate research in 2002 he earned his candidatskaja in juridical science (equivalent of SJD). He has got LL.M. degree in 1999, validated by the University of Manchester (UK). Andrey Zharskiy participated in a post-graduate course in International Trade and Business Law at T.M.C. Asser Institute, Asser College Europe, the Netherlands, in 2000.

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association
• International Bar Association
  
• the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)

Professional Activities and Experience
Before joining ALRUD Andrey worked in one of the major Russian oil companies, subsequently was a head of international legal department of a large international group, where he acquired vast experience in supporting energy, metallurgy and real estate transaction not only in Russia, but in China and Africa as well.

• Legal Checklist: How to Make your Business Sustainable in the Face of New Challenges

  By Andrey Zharskiy |July 2020

• COVID-19 Impact on M&A in Russia: Trends and Transaction Specifics

  By Andrey Zharskiy |April 2020

Additional ArticlesAndrey Zharskiy is an author of multiple publications on international sale of goods and Russian contract law, devoted primary to legal remedies for breach of contracts