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Julia Tolstova

Niederer Kraft Frey

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Position: Senior Associate
Rating:
  • Rising star
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
New York
Practice Areas:
Capital markets
Corporate and M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
Russian
Biography

Julia Tolstova specialises mainly in large and complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and capital markets. She also advises clients on all aspects of takeover and corporate law, and corporate governance.

Recent matter/case highlights
  • Advising Impala Terminals Group (Impala), a leading global liquid and dry bulk storage infrastructure operator, as Swiss counsel on its recent USD 1.26 billion debt refinancing and private placement notes issuance.
  • Advising Global Blue Group Holding AG on its USD 2.5bn takeover by Shift4.
  • Advising Georg Fischer on the divestment of GF Machining Solutions.
Key practice areas
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • M&A
Academic qualifications
  • Bachelor of Law, University of Basel, 2011
  • Master of Law, University of Basel, 2012
  • Admitted to the Canton Basel-Stadt Bar, 2015
  • LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, New York, 2020
  • Admitted to the New York State Bar, 2022
Association/network memberships
  • Zürcher Anwaltsverband (ZAV)
  • New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)
  • IBA International Bar Association
Address:
Bahnhofstrasse 53
Zurich, 8001
Switzerland
Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.nkf.ch/lawyers/julia-tolstova/