Anastasia Sheyndlina

ANASTASIA SHEYNDLINA advises issuers, underwriters, and selling shareholders/sponsors on a wide range of international debt and equity capital markets transactions, as well as in connection with ongoing reporting and general corporate matters. Anastasia’s experience spans a variety of jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the CIS, and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Sidley, Anastasia worked as in-house counsel at a major global investment bank, where she covered a full spectrum of debt and equity capital markets transactions across the EMEA region.

Representative examples of Anastasia’s experience include advising:

• The Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners (Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Galt & Taggart) on Bank of Georgia’s successful US$300 million 6.50% senior unsecured notes offering due 2031.
• The joint global coordinators, dealer managers and joint bookrunners on the successful issuance by VEON of a US$1.4 billion dual-tranche senior unsecured notes offering.
• The joint global coordinators, dealer managers and joint bookrunners on JSC National Company QazaqGaz’s US$700 million bond offering and liability management exercise.
• Underwriters in relation to a US$300 million AT1 bond offering by a leading Georgian financial institution.
• Underwriters in relation to a US$2.1 billion dual tranche Rule 144/Reg S bond offering and concurrent tender offer by a sovereign issuer from the African region.
• Underwriters in relation to the issue of a €400 million non-dilutive convertible bond by a European investment company.
• Underwriters in relation to a US$2 billion bond offering by one of Israel’s largest banks.
• Underwriters in relation to a €150 million tap of non-dilutive convertible bonds by a European company operating in the concessions, energy services, and construction sectors.
• Underwriters in relation to multiple medium-term note program updates and drawdowns and repeat investment-grade offerings by frequent issuers, including a number of European banks and consumer goods companies.
• A major CIS bank as issuer on several Eurobond issuances and liability management transactions.
• Underwriters in relation to a €3 billion primary equity raise through an accelerated bookbuilding (ABB) by a European multinational utility company.
• Underwriters in relation to multiple secondary ABB transactions with shares of companies across Continental Europe, the Nordics, and the Middle East.
• A leading Kazakhstan-based payments, marketplace and fintech platform on its US$6.5 billion dual-listed initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange and Astana International Exchange.
• Underwriters on the US$2 billion IPO of a major CIS value retailer on the London Stock Exchange.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.