Karen
Shakhnazarov

experience/skills

Karen joined the O2 Consulting team in 2016.

Prior to that, Karen worked in the New York and Moscow offices of leading international law firms (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler; Salans; Dewey & LeBoeuf) and held a number of executive positions with private equity funds in the USA and Russia.

He has been member of the New York State Bar Association since 2002.

Over his 20 years of practice, Mr Shakhnazarov has implemented over 100 M&A/Private Equity/VC transactions, including a number of landmark projects in energy; oil & gas; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; artificial intelligence, blockchain and other high tech; recreation and entertainment; retail; fast food chains, food and beverages and other industries.

Individual
recognition

Over the years, Karen Shakhnazarov has been personally recognized as an expert by Russian and international individual rankings.

Best Lawyers — in the nomination "Leveraged Buyouts".

The Legal 500, Russia — in the nomination "TMT".

Recommended Lawyers "Pravo-300", nominations:

• "Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions",
• "Sanctions Law",
• "TMT",
• "Digital Economy".

In 2023, in the category "Partners and Practice Leaders", nominations: "PPP/Infrastructure Projects", "Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions (High Market)".

Kommersant Legal Market Leaders, nominations:

• "Commercial Law",
• "Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions",
• "Sanctions Law".

education

Karen obtained his Master of Law (LLM) degree from Columbia University (New York, USA), graduated with distinction from the Law Department of Moscow State University and is a specialist in US and English law. He also holds a diploma in philology from Moscow State Linguistic University.

languages

english

russian

french

spanish

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