Marina Safonova advises publicly and privately held companies and financial sponsors on a wide range of cross-border and US domestic corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, "going private" transactions, carve-outs, joint ventures and minority investments. Marina has experience advising US corporate boards on hostile takeover and stockholder activism defence matters.
- Iberdrola on its agreement to acquire 100% of the publicly held shares of Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR)
- EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) on its all-stock merger with DISH Network
- Screaming Eagle Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SCRMU) on its business combination with the studio business of Lionsgate to launch Lionsgate Studios Corp. (Nasdaq: LION)
- Alstom Group on its agreement to sell its rail signalling technology business in North America to Knorr-Bremse
- NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) on its settlement with Elliott Investment Management
- Blackstone in its >US$500 million investment in a joint venture (Dynamo Software) with Francisco Partners
- TPG in its >US$200 million acquisition of Keter Environmental Services Inc.
- TPG in its acquisition of Morrow Sodali
- Assembly (a portfolio company of Providence Strategic Growth) in the acquisition of Pacvue
- JC Flowers in its co-investment with Bain Capital into Insigneo Financial Group
- Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ACND) on its US$3 billion business combination with Beacon Street Group, LLC
- CITIC Capital on its US$700 million acquisition of GNC Holdings Inc. pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Cellular Biomedicine Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBMG) in its “going private” sale to a consortium led by certain members of CBMG management, CBMG stockholders and financial sponsors
- Hg Capital in its acquisition of Intelerad Medical Systems
- Calpine Corporation in the US$1.1 billion financing of the Geysers geothermal power generating facilities in California
- Mill Rock Capital in the acquisition of Trojan Lithograph Corporation
- Saudi Aramco in its US$69.1 billion acquisition of a 70% stake in Saudi Basic IndustriesCorporation (SABIC) from the Public Investment Fund
- Roark Capital Group and Inspire Brands, Inc. in the acquisition of Jimmy John's LLC
- Certares LP in its investment in Mystic Invest
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Career and
qualifications
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Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Bachelor of Law) summa cum laude, 2013
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Master of Laws) summa cum laude, 2015
Harvard Law School (LLM), 2018
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York, 2019
Joined Clifford Chance in 2024
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