Andrey Sorochan

Andrey started his career at the restructuring consultancy sponsored by the World Bank. He gained also experience in transaction advisory and audit from positions with two Big4 firms. From 2006 he was employed by Grant Thornton where from 2011 he was a Partner in charge for Transaction, Restructuring and Investigation Services. He earned MBA degree from MSM, the Netherlands, and was qualified as CPA by New Hampshire Accountancy Board and as CFA Charterholder by CFA Institute and CFE by Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He leads buy/sell side due diligence as well as reviews and investigations.

Recent case examples include:

• restructuring advisory for Algol Russia and Omya Russia for the purpose of joint venture creation
• review of property management company on behalf of consortium of banks led by Bank of America
• investigation aimed to resolve potential commercial dispute between Cipla and Teva
• financial review of Tosnensky plant of chemistry products on behalf of French Fareva Group
• financial advisory with regards to Eurotek, a gas exploration company, on behalf of Guernsey Court
• FCPA due diligence of several Nalco and Ecolab companies
• due diligence of gold mining business located in Far East of Russia on behalf of Ovoca Gold
• due diligence of Bogatir Trans and UTEK on behalf of Petroleum (Kazahstan)
• due diligence of several property & construction businesses on behalf of Irish Quinn Group
• review of online auction on behalf of QXL (UK)
• due diligence of Raduga TV on behalf of Rostelecom
• due diligence of JSC East Kazakhstan regional energy company on behalf of Samruk Energy
• due diligence of the gas company Suntarneftegaz on behalf of Soluteck Holdings Limited (HK)
• acquisition search of the potential target at request of SSAB AB (Sweden)
• review of Malka Oil with regards to the listing on Stockholm Stock Exchange