Law Asia. International Lawyers: Profile : Pavel Karpunin

Professional Profile

Pavel Karpunin is a Partner at Capital Legal Services. Pavel heads the Project Finance and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) practice and supervises the Corporate practice.

During more than 20 years of his experience, Pavel implemented large-scale projects for Russian and international companies in various fields, including transport infrastructure, health care and pharmaceuticals, consumer market, banking and financial sector, automobile industry, etc.

Under Pavel’s guidance, several of the largest federal and regional PPP and project financing projects were completed, representing both private investors and public partners such as the Russian Ministry of Transport, the Government of St. Petersburg, the Government of Khabarovsk Region, Pulkovo Airport OJSC, Perm Concession Company LLC, etc.

Pavel’s expertise also includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, capital markets deals. Pavel has extensive experience of advising companies in the implementation of their investment projects in Russia.

Pavel is recommended by Chambers Europe, 2018 as an expert in commercial law (Band 4) and PPP (Band 3). Clients speak of Partner Pavel Karpunin as a professional who “tries to solve problems in the right way and reduce legal risks.”

Legal 500 EMEA, 2018 recommends Pavel as a professional and expert of the highest level in such areas as corporate, commercial law and public-private partnership.

The PPP practices headed by Pavel take top positions (Tier 2) in Legal 500 EMEA, 2018 rating.

Chambers Europe, 2018 also highly appreciates work of the Commercial Law practice (Band 2), as well as the PPP practice (Band 2).

Pavel is one of the recognized leaders of the Russian legal community, an acting member of the expert council on PPP issues at the Russian State Duma. He takes an active part in projects aimed at improving the Russian legislation.