OREANDA-NEWS. September 07, 2010. SORAINEN Belarus is acting as local legal counsel for leading Russian dairy company Unimilk in a transaction involving merger of Unimilk’s business with Danone's Fresh Dairy Product business in the CIS area. Spanning operations in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, the merger covers all dairy products and will make Danone-Unimilk the leader in dairy products throughout the CIS. The new entity will generate annual sales of approximately EUR 1.5 billion and number over 18,000 employees, reported the press-centre of SORAINEN.

Unimilk CEO Andrey Beskhmelnitsky announced: “Since its very beginning Unimilk was established as a company open for partnership, ready for implementation of any bold ideas and projects aimed at our consumers’ satisfaction. Our alliance with Danone, the world leader in fresh dairy products, will increase the investment potential of the whole industry, set new standards of efficiency, increase demand for high quality raw milk, and will obviously promote the consumer market and development of our teams.”

The SORAINEN team is led by partners Maksim Salahub and Alexey Anischenko.