Arsen Ayupov

Arsen specializes in supporting public-private partnerships (PPPs) and large investment projects. He has 15+ years of experience in legal consulting:
•    providing support for the construction of large commercial and industrial real estate projects, including under concession and public-private partnership agreements;
•    consulting of Western and Russian investors regarding investment projects for the acquisition of land, design, construction and commissioning of completed facilities;
•    consulting of manufacturers regarding the acquisition and sale of industrial and infrastructure facilities.

Arsen graduated from the postgraduate course of the International Law Faculty of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. He has an MBA degree in the program "MBA – Real Estate Management and Development", the National Research University Higher School of Economics (diploma with honors), and a LL.M. degree in the Pericles LL.M. Program.

•    Head of the Russian-Turkish Working Group at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneur.
•    Member of the Joint Russian-Turkish Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation in 2017-2019.
•    Confident of the candidate for mayor of Moscow, Sergey Semenovich Sobyanin, during the 2018 election campaign.
•    Member of the expert group for the development of Law of Moscow No. 22 "On Scientific, Technical and Innovative Activities in the City of Moscow" dated 06/06/2012.
•    Member of the Real Estate Committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB).
•    Author and co-author of more than 30 works in Russian and foreign publications on legal issues in the field of real estate, investment and PPPs. His works were published in Korporativny Yurist, Kollegiya, Mall, Kommerchskaya Nedvizhimost, Moscow Journal of International Law, ILO, Business guidebook "Doing Business", BusinessDialogueGuide, Biznes Rossii, Vedomosti.
•    Co-author of comments to Federal Law No. 160-FZ "On Foreign Investments in the Russian Federation" dated 9 July 1999.
•    Participant, speaker and moderator of Russian and international professional conferences on investment, real estate and PPPs.

Arsen is a master of sports in combined heaving, candidate master of sports in arm wrestling. In 2019, he got through to the semifinal of the national competition "Leaders of Russia".