Bio

Yulia A. Solomakhina practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, capital markets, and other cross-border transactions involving businesses in Russia. Yulia has been involved in some of the most complex and headline-making transactions over the last few years. Her experience extends beyond transactional work into Russian regulatory matters, including antitrust and foreign strategic investments law matters, as well as privacy and data protection. Recognized by Chambers Europe 2020 as the only female lawyer among the leading capital markets practitioners in Russia, Yulia is praised by clients for being very good at looking at the bigger picture. Sources describe her as “very talented and responsive.” She has been named 2021 “Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” in Russia by Best Lawyers and internationally recognized by other legal guides, including Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, The Legal 500, and IFLR1000 for her M&A, TMT, capital markets, and energy and natural resources work. Yulia joined the firm as an associate in 2002 after working as a stagiaire at Cleary from 2000 to 2001, and became a partner in 2011.