Yulia Solomakhina

Yulia Solomakhina

Partner @Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

New York, NY, US
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WORK HISTORY

Jan 2026 — Present

Partner @Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

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NY, US

Yulia Solomakhina’s practice focuses on capital solutions, debt finance, private credit, structured credit, and restructuring. Her experience also includes complex cross-border M&A, corporate transactions, advisory work, and special situations. Her practice spans various industries, including telecom, energy and infrastructure, consumer goods, manufacturing and tech.Having worked in three offices of the firm on three different continents, Yulia brings extensive experience in all kinds of matters for emerging markets clients, multinationals and PE firms investing in emerging markets, as well as sovereigns and SOEs, corporates and financial institutions, ranging from debt and equity capital markets transactions, to transformational innovative joint ventures, to corporate and debt restructurings.Her broad-based expertise also includes advising clients on U.S, EU, UK, and other economic sanctions and export controls. She is a co-author of Cleary’s Trade Watch providing regular updates on sanctions developments. Yulia has been recognized as Leading Lawyer: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions by Legal 500 U.S. Yulia is a winner of the M&A Award by Client Choice Awards, and was recognized as a “Rising Star” in Corporate by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Awards. She has been named 2021 Capital Markets “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers at the top of a class of 57 ranked lawyers and was the only woman partner ranked individually in Band 1 in the Russian capital markets by Legal 500.Yulia joined the firm as an associate in 2002 after working as a stagiaire at Cleary from to 2001, became partner in 2011, special counsel in 2023, and rejoined the firm as partner in 2026.

EDUCATION

2001 — 2002

New York University School of Law

Master of Laws - LLM, Corporate

2023 — 2023

Harvard Business School Online

Certificate, Alternative Investments

1995 — 2000

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

J.D., Jurisprudence, civil law

SKILLS

Joint VenturesInternational LawCross-Border TransactionsCompetition LawForeign InvestmentSecurities RegulationCapital MarketsBanking LawIpoCorporate GovernanceLegal AdviceInternational ArbitrationPrivate EquityCorporate LawMergers & Acquisitions

ABOUT YULIA SOLOMAKHINA

Yulia Solomakhina’s practice focuses on capital solutions, debt finance, private credit, structured credit, and restructuring. Her experience also includes complex cross-border M&A, corporate transactions, advisory work, and special situations. Her practice spans various industries, including telecom, energy and infrastructure, consumer goods, manufacturing and tech.Having worked in three offices of the firm on three different continents, Yulia brings extensive experience in all kinds of matters for emerging markets clients, multinationals and PE firms investing in emerging markets, as well as sovereigns and SOEs, corporates and financial institutions, ranging from debt and equity capital markets transactions, to transformational innovative joint ventures, to corporate and debt restructurings.Her broad-based expertise also includes advising clients on U.S, EU, UK, and other economic sanctions and export controls. She is a co-author of Cleary’s Trade Watch providing regular updates on sanctions developments. Yulia has been recognized as Leading Lawyer: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions by Legal 500 U.S. Yulia is a winner of the M&A Award by Client Choice Awards, and was recognized as a “Rising Star” in Corporate by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Awards. She has been named 2021 Capital Markets “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers at the top of a class of 57 ranked lawyers and was the only woman partner ranked individually in Band 1 in the Russian capital markets by Legal 500.Yulia joined the firm as an associate in 2002 after working as a stagiaire at Cleary from to 2001, became partner in 2011, special counsel in 2023, and rejoined the firm as partner in 2026.

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