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ANATOLY ANDRIASH
Partner, Head of the Energy and Natural Resources Practice
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Anatoly Andriash has over 27 years' experience in international transactions involving major Russian oil, gas and mining companies. He specializes in corporate and commercial law, including M&A transactions and joint ventures with an industry focus. As a partner in the Corporate practice, Anatoly manages the firm's energy and natural resources projects.

Anatoly advises Russian and international companies in various sectors of the economy on a wide range of cross-border transactions, but is particularly known for large-scale transactions related to the mining and processing of mineral resources, the development of optimal corporate strategies for companies in the energy sector, and M&A transactions in the energy, oil and gas sectors.

Anatoly is a member of the Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the Mining Advisory Council's Legislative Working Group, having previously served on the organization's governing body since its founding in 1999. Anatoly is also a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators.

Since 2023, Anatoly Andriyash has been a lecturer at the Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy Complex at MIEP MGIMO. Anatoly teaches the course “Legal Support of Energy Business in Russia and Abroad” at MIEP's Master's Program “Legal Support of International Projects and Energy Business”.

Leading legal directories regularly rank Anatoly among the leading lawyers in the energy, natural resources, mining and oil and gas industries, as well as in M&A and project finance: Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, IFLR1000, Pravo-300. In 2021, Anatoly was named an industry “stand-out” by Acritas Stars. In the Pravo-300 and Kommersant rankings Anatoly is recommended in the Energy and Natural Resources industries, and Kommersant recommends him in the field of Environmental Law.
SERVICES
AND PRACTICE AREAS
ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Practices
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Industries
EDUCATION

  • Master of Science in International Finance and Management, Open University Business School London, 2010

  • MBA, Open University Business School London, 2005

  • Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO), 1994

CLIENTS
AND PROJECTS
ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY PJSC
Advised Rosneft on the sale of a minority stake in Vankorneft JSC and related joint operating arrangements to ONGC Videsh Limited. Vankorneft JSC is one of Rosneft's principal production subsidiaries holding licences for the Vankor field in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia
NOVATEK
Advised on marketing and transportation issues in connection with the establishment of a joint venture for a natural gas production and liquefied natural gas project
Shell
Advised Shell in connection with its planned acquisition of a 50% stake in Meretoyakhaneftegaz LLC from Gazprom Neft PJSC to implement Russia's largest oil production project in five years. This new joint venture is being set up to further develop the Tazovskoye and Meretoyakhinskoye oil and gas fields and certain other oil and gas condensate fields in Western Siberia
Shell
Advised Shell regarding a proposed acquisition of a 25% stake in Gazpromneft-AeroBryansk LLC and the establishment of a new oil and gas joint venture between Gazprom Neft PJSC (50%) and Repsol (25%). As a result of Repsol's withdrawal from the transaction, it was subsequently restructured into a 50/50 joint venture between Gazprom Neft PJSC and Shell
ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY PJSC
Advised Rosneft on the sale of a 33.3% stake in SevComNeftegaz LLC, a company developing the Severo-Komsomolskoye field, and related joint venture arrangements to Statoil
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AWARDS
AND RANKINGS
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
2025


- Corporate Law

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- International Projects

Rossiyskaya Gazeta
2024


- Mergers and Acquisitions (Group 1)

- International Projects (Group 1)

Kommersant
2024

- Energy and Natural Resources

- Environmental Law

Pravo-300
2024

- Natural resources/energy

Kommersant
2023

- Energy and Natural Resources (Band 1)

- Environmental Law (Band 1)

Pravo-300
2023

- Energy and Natural Resources

Kommersant
2022

- Energy and Natural Resources

- Environmental Law

Chambers and Partners
2008 - 2021

- Energy and natural resources

Acritas Stars
2021

- An outstanding lawyer

Legal-500
2019-2021

- Energy and natural resources

IFLR1000
2019 – 2021

- Energy and Natural Resources

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- Project Development

- Project Finance

Best Lawyers
2011-2021

- Energy and Natural Resources

- Investments

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- Oil and Gas

- Project Finance

- Telecommunications

Pravo-300
2020

- Energy and natural resources

Who’s Who Legal International
2013-2021

- Energy

- Mining

FEEDBACK AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Anatoly Andriash provides advice based on valuable expert experience.
Legal 500
Anatoly Andriash has a long-standing reputation in the Russian energy market. He is best known for his industry expertise in legal regulation.
Chambers & Partners
Anatoly Andriash is "well known to market observers for his experience in the energy sector".
Chambers & Partners
Anatoly Andriash "has extensive experience in Russian M&A transactions in the energy sector".
Legal 500
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WRITTEN WORKS

  • Co-author of the Law and Practice section of the Chambers & Partners publication Energy: Oil & Gas 2020 – Russia

  • Co-author of the Law and Practice section of the Chambers & Partners publication Energy: Oil & Gas 2019 – Russia

  • Co-author of the Law and Practice section of the Russia section of the Chambers & Partners publication Mining 2019

  • Co-author of the article "The New Civil Code of the Russian Federation: the Future of Contract Law and the Law of Obligations" in the journal Economy and Life, No. 10b, 2013

  • Interview for Oil and Gas Journal on the dangers for Russia's oil industry posed by high taxes and aging fields, February 2008

  • Co-author of the article "Some Practical Recommendations on the Implementation of the New Law On the Subsoil", published in the journal Oil and Gas Vertical, March 2000

NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
05 / 04 / 2023
LEVEL Legal Services - No. 1 in the rating of the business publication Kommersant
On April 5, 2023, Kommersant Publishing House published the results of a survey of legal services market leaders, where LEVEL Legal Services holds leading positions in 28 legal and industry practices, and 11 lawyers of the firm received individual recognition
14 / 03 / 2023
LEVEL Legal Services as a member of the Mining Advisory Council
LEVEL Legal Services officially joined the Mining Advisory Council
21 / 02 / 2023
"Pravo-300" rating recommends 9 partners and practice heads of LEVEL Legal Services in individual rating of lawyers
On February 21, 2023, the "Pravo-300" ranking published individual lawyer recommendations following the release of the main survey results. The ranking recommends all partners and practice heads of LEVEL Legal Services in 14 areas of law in which the firm has been ranked as a leader in the federal Law-300 ranking.
20 / 12 / 2022
Anatoly Andriash joins the corporate practice of LEVEL Legal Services as a partner with expertise in the energy and natural resources sector
Anatoly Andriash, a partner with a long-standing reputation as a leading international energy and natural resources lawyer, has joined LEVEL Legal Services. Anatoly specializes in corporate and commercial law, including M&A transactions and joint ventures with an industry focus.