Maria Grechishkina

Practice Areas

  • Russian Law Expertise for US Courts
  • Discovery in Aid of Foreign Proceedings
  • International Arbitration
  • Russian Law
  • Foreign Judgment Enforcement
  • Corporate Law Services
  • International Business Transactions
  • Business Immigration

For more than 20 years, Maria Grechishkina has advised U.S. and foreign clients on Russian law, corporate finance, litigation and arbitration matters.  Her clients include oil and metallurgical businesses, banks and telecom companies.  Prior to joining Marks & Sokolov, Maria served as in-house counsel for Nestle where she worked on the company’s M&A in Russia.  From  2003 to 2005, she led the contracting department of VimpelCom, a major telecom provider in Russia, where she oversaw their transactional and licensing work, corporate finance matters, and negotiated multimillion dollar financing in foreign and domestic markets. 

Maria holds a degree in English and French from Moscow State Linguistic University (1993), a law degree from Moscow State University, Lomonosov School of Law (1998) and an LLM from Temple University (2000).  She is admitted to practice in both Russia and the U.S. (New York) and is fluent in Russian, English and French.

Experience

Maria’s representations include:

  • Representations pertaining to 28 U.S.C. §1782 discovery proceedings in the United States in aid of foreign proceedings.
  • Represented a Russian industrial company against foreign investors for recovery of $150 million that was improperly diverted in a trade fraud scheme and obtained a favorable settlement.
  • Represented plaintiff shareholders in a dispute over the management of the world’s largest ferroalloy plant. The action was filed to vindicate the rights of good-faith investors who suffered damages exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars. The dispute was settled.
  • Represented foreign investor with clams in excess of $3.6 billion against Russia’s largest oil company for wrongdoing related to the denial of rights to develop one of the world’s richest diamond fields.
  • Represented Canadian company in a dispute over Russian oil assets. The appellate court granted client’s appeal of the dismissal of the case on the grounds of forum non conveniens.
  • Represented shareholders plaintiffs in a suit filed in Delaware in excess of $1 billion related to the illegal seizure of a Russian vanadium plant and a plaintiffs in $2.7 billion suit in New York on behalf of the foreign trading partners of a Russian aluminum factory whose contracts were abrogated in sham bankruptcy proceedings

 

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