Jones Day Gouldens has scooped the lead role on Russia’s largest ever corporate transaction, the £11.3bn Russian joint venture (JV) between BP and TNK.

A team led by Washington DC-based partner Vladimir Lechtman advised TNK and its shareholders, the Alfa Group and Access-Renova (AAR), on the deal.
Lechtman, who moved from Texas giant Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in March this year, is a long-term adviser of AAR and has brought some of the company’s most lucrative work with him.