Anastasia Konovalova

Anastasia Konovalova is an Associate at Habib Al Mulla, based in the United Arab Emirates. She is a corporate, M&A and commercial lawyer with over six years of cross-border experience gained in a US law firm, as well as in family office and in-house structures. Her practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions.

She advises multinational companies and high-net-worth individuals on sophisticated transactions across a range of sectors, including energy and natural resources, banking and fintech, IT, commercial real estate, metals and mining, commodities trading and retail.

Anastasia advises on corporate structuring and restructuring, M&A transactions, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, and private equity investments. She also has experience in secured financing transactions and capital markets matters, including IPO-related work. Her practice further includes negotiating commercial contracts and advising on onshore and offshore business set-up.

She holds an LL.M. in Private Law from the Russian School of Private Law, Moscow (2023), and an LL.B. with honours from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) (2021). She was admitted in Russia in 2021 and speaks English, Russian and German.