Mikhail Kukarskikh

Junior Associate

- - mikhail.kukarskikh@birchlegal.ru

Practice areas

Additional practice areas

About

Mikhail specializes in advising clients on corporate, commercial and international private law, assisting in drafting contracts as well as memoranda, and participating in conducting legal due diligence. Mikhail has experience in participating in projects involving the purchase and sale of securities and in advising on the execution of commercial agreements.

Experience

  • conducting legal due diligence for a Russian agro-industrial company
  • advising a chemical production company on corporate issues
  • advising an engineering company on the execution of construction contracts
  • advising a branch of a foreign company engaged in equipment supply on contractual work with its counterparties
  • assisting in advising a construction company on the options for investment agreement models for the reconstruction of a city park
  • conducting legal due diligence on land plots for landfill sites

Mikhail’s experience includes his projects before joining BIRCH LEGAL.

Education

2024St Petersburg State University, Bachelor’s Degree in Law

Languages

  • English
  • Russian
  • German

Career

2023–pres.Junior Associate / Legal Assistant / Trainee, BIRCH LEGAL
2022–2023Trainee, VERSUS.Legal

Media

Draft legislation on the right to refuse foreign investors the exercise of buyback options

A bill providing for restrictions on foreign companies returning to the Russian market in terms of exercising buyback options was approved in the second parliamentary session. The BIRCH team has analyzed the potential changes and their impact on foreign companies’ return to the Russian market.

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4 June 2025