Aliaksandr Antonau

Counsel, Head of Infrastructure Projects Practice Belarus

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Aliaksandr specialises in providing legal support for large greenfield and brownfield projects. These activities include assisting clients in choosing the best possible site for the project, facilitating negotiations with the state authorities, and structuring relations with co-investors and contractors.

Aliaksandr also supports clients at various stages of real estate transactions, from construction to operation. His portfolio covers work experience in the implementation of large infrastructure and renewable energy projects.

Aliaksandr's major clients include: Mila, Mile, JYSK, Evroopt, 21vek, 5 Element, CITIC Construction, large pharmaceutical and IT companies.

Aliaksandr is actively involved in developing the legal regulation of the Great Stone Industrial Park and is also a member of expert groups to improve legislation under the Ministry of Economy.

Aliaksandr is a visiting expert and moderator at such annual events as the Belarusian Investment Forum, the Belarusian Developers' Forum, the Belarusian Pharmaceutical Forum and the author of materials at Probusiness, Onliner, Myfin, Economicheskaya Gazeta and other portals.

Additional facts about the associate

  • Investments in clients' projects that Alexander has worked with exceed USD 2 billion
  • Aliaksandr is the first lawyer in the history of Belarus to be mentioned for the first time in an international legal directory as early as 24 years old
  • Aliaksandr is recommended by international directories The Legal 500 and IFLR1000 as one of the leading experts in construction, real estate and investment project support in Belarus. The team of lawyers led by Aliaksandr is recommended in the first groups of the directories Pravo-300 International, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000.

 

 

Certificate of attestation of the person providing legal services, No. 147 of 06.04.2023

Despite his young enough age, I call him "professor".

IFLR 1000

Projects

Purchase of the factory within three days

Comprehensive assistance to a foreign investor in the purchase of a building materials factory in Belarus. In 72 hours following the request, the client already had a Belarusian legal entity, an approved loan from a bank, a detailed action plan for doing business in Belarus and a full-fledged operating company.

The first public-private partnership project in Belarus

REVERA acted as a consultant to the ERG Group consortium to participate in the first PPP project in Belarus for the reconstruction and maintenance of a section of the M-10 highway.

EBRD

Supporting EBRD in granting a secured loan in the amount of 20 million euros to EuroTorg LLC, a major Belarusian retail chain. We carried out legal auditing, analysed the loan agreement, elaborated and negotiated terms and conditions, monitored signature of documents on the provision of security and prepared a legal opinion.

Drafting Presidential Edict

Improving legal regulation of the Great Stone industrial park. Drafting Presidential Edict.

Acquisition of a business centre

Comprehensive support for the acquisition of a business centre in Minsk. We provided ‘turnkey’ legal assistance: prepared a due deligence report, obtained consent of the anti-monopoly regulator, monitored negotiations, contracting and eviction of tenants.

15 floors for an IT company

Support for conclusion of a lease agreement for over 10,000 sq.m. of office areas in Minsk for a world-famous IT company.