[1][2] In 2002, he graduated from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship (Russian: "Высшей школе приватизации и предпринимательства" (ВШПП)) in Pushkino, Moscow, and received his PhD in Law in 2005 in Kaliningrad at the Kaliningrad Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
[8][11][a] Since 2008, he is the Vice-President of the design bureau CB "Northern Sea Route" (Russian: конструкторское бюро ЦБ "Северный морской путь" (Севморпуть)).
[8] In 2015, Arkady Rotenberg sold his son Igor Rotenberg a number of assets including up to 79% of Gazprom Drilling (Bureniye),[13] 28% of the road construction company Mostotrest,[14][b] and 33.3% of Jersey-based TPS Real Estate Holdings Ltd.[17][18] Alexander Ponomarenko and Aleksandr Skorobogatko own 66.6% of TPC Real Estates Holdings.
[18] In 2016, Igor Rotenberg was at the center of a controversy surrounding Platon (Russian: ПЛАТОН), a company he half-owns, and alleged discrepancies in its contracts with the federal road agency, Rosavtodor.
[24][c] Approved on 29 September 2014 by Roman Starovoyt (Russian: Роман Старовойт), who is the head of Rosavtodor, and Alexander Sovetnikov (Russian: Александр Советников), who is the director of RT – Invest Transport Systems (RTITS) (Russian: "РТ-Инвест Транспортные системы"), Rotenberg, through his companies,[d] is guaranteed to receive from the state budget a very large portion of the 10.6 billion rubles indexed to inflation each year without VAT (4.98 billion rubles paid semi-annually) from 15 November 2015, to 29 September 2027, which is paid to the Planton & RT Invest partnership.
[25] On 28 November 2015, Anton Nosik alleged that the state would be missing large sums of money from the Avtodor GC (Russian: ГК «Автодор») tolls between the 15th km (Businovskaya intersection on the Moscow Ring Road) to the 58th km (Solnechnogorsk) along M11, which had been applied as maintenance fees not only to truck drivers but to all drivers and were not to be paid until the M11 project was completed, but were being charged to all motorists beginning on 23 November 2015.
[28] On 29 March 2018, Igor sold his 33.3% stake in TPS Real Estate Holdings for $1 billion to his sister Liliya Rotenberg (Russian: Лилия Аркадьевичнa Ротенберг born 17 April 1978).