Nikita Kulikov, Executive Director, HEADS Consulting, has an impression that Oleg Deripaska could have simply given his wife the 6.9% shareholding in the holding company on the eve of the IPO.

When it comes to potential property related disputes between spouses, they are sometimes settled by voluntarily alienating a portion of shared property by one of them, adds Denis Frolov, Head of Litigation and Arbitration Practice, BMS Law Firm.