Managing Partner and Head of the "Industrial Construction" practice, Elena Stuart, is included in the Kommersant Publishing House ranking "Best Lawyers. Federal Rating 2024" in the "Manufacturing and Industry" sector.
Elena Stuart has over ten years of experience in consulting on the implementation of EPC projects in the field of petrochemicals, oil and gas processing, energy, and natural resources. The total value of the projects that Elena worked on is over 100 billion Euros. Elena consults with contractors, clients in EPC projects, as well as interact with licensors and project creditors, including international export credit agencies.
Elena specializes in preparing pre-FEED and FEED contracts, license agreements, EPC contracts and related forms under Russian and English law; issues of design and operation of facilities; strategic consulting in the field of EPC with a focus on commercial, technical, and financial risks.
Projects Implemented
Consulting services to Baltic Chemical Complex in an EPC project for the construction of a gas chemical complex as part of the complex for the processing of ethane-containing gas in the Ust-Luga settlement in the Leningrad region. The gas chemical complex is part of the flagship investment project of modern Russia to create one of the world’s largest clusters for the extraction and deep processing of hydrocarbon raw materials in the northwest of Russia. The project’s cost is over 11 billion Euros;
Consulting services for the Russian-Korean contractor “OMZ-Delim” in the implementation of an EPC project for the construction of a terminal for the production and transshipment of liquefied natural gas at the port of Vysotsk, Leningrad region, with a capacity of 660 thousand tons of LNG per year. The “Cryogas Vysotsk” plant is the third largest Russian enterprise for the production of LNG (the other two being the plants of the “Sakhalin 2” project and the “Yamal LNG” plant). The project cost is over 50 billion Rubles;
Consulting for the Russian-Korean contractor, “OMZ-Daelim,” as part of the implementation of the EPC project for the construction of an oil deep processing complex in Omsk for Gazprom Neft Omsk Refinery;
Consulting services for Golovinsky Mining Company (part of Oneksim Group) during the implementation of an EPC project for the construction of the Ak-Sug mining and processing plant in terms of legal, technical, and commercial aspects of project implementation;
Consulting services “RT-Engineering” (part of Rostec Corporation) during the implementation of an EPC project for the construction of a mining and metallurgical complex based on the Chernogorsk platinum group metals deposit. The project cost exceeds 570 billion rubles;
Consulting for “Belebeevsky Dairy Plant” (part of the Savencia Group, France) within the scope of an EPC project for the construction of a soft cheese production facility in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The project aims to increase the milk processing capacity at the Belebeevsky Dairy Plant from 168,000 to 200,000 tons per year. Additionally, it seeks to raise the production volume of hard cheeses from 13,500 to 16,000 tons and initiate the production of soft cheeses using French technology.
