Nikolai is a senior associate in our construction and engineering team, who is based in our London office.
Nikolai is a member of our construction and engineering practice with experience of working on construction and engineering projects, domestically and internationally, across traditional oil & gas as well as renewable power, mining and infrastructure sectors. Nikolai has a solid experience of working on downstream projects (including all aspects of project procurement and technology licensing as well as onshore / offshore pipelines) and renewable power and energy transition projects (including development of solar farms, battery energy storage systems, carbon capture infrastructure and green ammonia plants).
Nikolai works with clients on a wide range of contracts including EPC/EPCM/EPCI/EPSS contracts, FEED and early works agreements, supply-only contracts, technology licenses, engineering services contracts, O&M contracts and LTSAs. Nikolai's experience in working with such wide range of contracts in both traditional oil & gas and green energy / energy transition sectors let him acquire unique practical legal and commercial insight which benefits the firm and expands our capability in responding to clients' demands.
Clients are expecting our team to understand their projects not only from a legal point of view, but also from commercial, financial and technical. Nikolai is able to offer such complex and integrated advisory. He is able to work both in English and Russian and knows his way around most of the sector’s most used types of contract arrangements.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- various investors on construction, supply and O&M contracts in the context of their proposed investments in battery energy storage businesses across the UK
- lenders on construction and O&M contracts in the context of the project financing of the development of the solar and battery farms across the UK
- infrastructure fund on the multi-contract procurement strategy, forms of EPCM contract, design, supply and installation contracts and O&M agreement for the construction of a proposed energy from waste plant
- major oil and gas company on the installation of offshore gas pipelines as part of the major LNG project in Africa
- project developer on the contracts for an offshore platform, mooring system and gas pipeline project in Europe, including contracts for mooring system supply, offshore pipelay, dredging and backfilling and onshore micro-tunnelling
- project developer on the procurement and installation of the natural gas pipeline in the Mediterranean sea
- LUKOIL on technology licences, technical services contract, equipment and catalyst supply contracts as well as FEED contract in connection with construction of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit, alkylation unit and FCC gasoline desulfurization unit
- LUKOIL on technology licences, catalyst supply contracts and FEED contracts in connection with construction of two new polypropylene units in Russia and Bulgaria
- a major Russian mining company on construction contract to build the mining and metallurgical plant at one of the world’s largest copper deposits and a contract for supply of technological equipment for the plant
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