Daria Lukoianova
Daria Lukoianova
Daria Lukoianova
Biography
Daria is an associate in the firm’s Corporate and Finance Transactions group. She has extensive experience in cross-border finance, acting for both lenders and borrowers. Daria’s experience includes wide range of finance transactions, including syndicated loans, bilateral loans, real estate finance, trade finance and project finance.
Prior to joining the firm, Daria worked for an international development bank in London as an in-house counsel, supporting the bank’s finance deals in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Before that, Daria was a banking and finance associate with the Moscow office of a major international law firm, representing European and US clients and the largest domestic financial institutions.
Daria is a dual qualified solicitor in England and Wales and a Russian lawyer. She was recognized in the Best Lawyers ranking for Russia in banking and finance law (2022).
Civic Involvement & Honors
- Recognized in the Best Lawyers 2022 for Russia, banking and finance law.
Spoken Languages
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French
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Russian
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English
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Practice Areas
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Real Estate
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Real Estate Finance
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Finance
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Financial Institutions
Experience
- Advised an international bank on secured syndicated facilities to a shopping mall operator in Moscow.
- Acted for a major German bank in a syndicated loan, secured by 16 real estate properties in Moscow.
- Represented the largest Russian bank in several secured financings of benchmarking shopping malls in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
- Represented lenders on a multi-million prepayment finance facility to a European oil trader.
- Advised a Cypriot bank on a several unsecured multicurrency facilities to copper, coal and gold producers.
- Advised a coal mining company in a multicurrency financing by a syndicate of international banks.
- As a counsel for a development bank, negotiated a project finance loan for the construction of a wind power plant in Uzbekistan, which included lenders’ backed letter of credit and a sovereign guarantee.
- Acted for a development bank in guaranteed loans to a retailer chain expanding its operations to the Western Balkans by building energy efficient stores.
- Acted for a development bank in several secured loans to a Mongolian automotive dealer.
- Advised on and negotiated a multicurrency loan from an international development institution to a major bank in Morocco, to further advance loans to local businesses investing in climate change mitigation technologies.
- Advised on a loan from a development bank to construct and operate an air separation factory in Croatia.
- Negotiated revolving loans from a development bank to a gas distribution company in Bulgaria.