Vladislav Yurievich Doronin (Russian: Владислав Юрьевич Доро́нин; born 7 November 1962) is a Russian-born businessman, real estate developer and art collector.
Subsequently the firm which entered the Moscow commercial real estate market with class A offices and retail projects, and later expanded with other premium residential developments.
[9] Doronin met the two men, who at the time lived in the Republic of Uzbekistan, through business when he still worked for Marc Rich and in 1993 they became shareholders in Capital Group.
[17] In 2013 Doronin's Capital Group formed a joint venture with Gavriil Yushvaev, a Russian entrepreneur, for the construction of OKO — a mixed-use (commercial and residential) highrise development in the Moscow International Business Center.
The operational responsibilities are divided with Doronin responsible for asset sales and acquisitions, attracting investors, development of architectural concepts and marketing, Pavel Tio in charge of relations with the Moscow construction complex, new project and legal work and Berman focusing on fit-out and construction work in Capital Group projects.
Doronin demanded $20 million in damages and claimed that the articles falsely stated that he was Russian and implied that he supported the Putin regime.
By July, the dispute had escalated into legal matters, with a London High Court temporarily reinstating Zecha, and Doronin suing Amanat in New York City and alleging fraud.
[36] Following the purchase he redeveloped the building to include 83 hotel rooms and 22 apartments within the tower, Infrastructural facilities, a three-story 2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft) spa, a jazz club, a cigar bar and restaurants.
Tavakoli claimed that he brokered the acquisition and was promised equity interest, but was intentionally cut out of the venture by Doronin and his business partner Carl Johan Eliasch.
The project is a joint venture between Aman and Cruise Saudi and plans to see 600 feet long and 23,000-ton luxury yacht to be created to host around 100 guests.
[2][47] The company announced it would offer private jet tours of Aman hotel and resort locations in March 2023 including stops in Japan, India, Thailand, Bhutan, Turkey, and Greece.
[48] In 2023, a Bombardier business jet with the tail number 9H-AMN was grounded due to sanctions that OFAC placed on Malta- and Russia-based Emperor Aviation Ltd.
[53] A second partnership between OKO Group and Cain International in Miami took place with the development of a 47-story residential tower called Una on the Brickell Waterfront.
[54] Under Doronin, in March 2022 OKO bought nearly one acre of land on Aspen Mountain's underdeveloped west side for 76 million dollars from Norway Island LLC, a business entity comprising Jim DeFrancia, Bryan Peterson and Jeff Gorsuch, a former U.S. ski team downhill racer, a proprietor of a small chain of high-end retail ski shops, and cousin of Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch.
[57] In July 2022, Doronin announced the OKO group had secured a $97 million construction loan for a new development project in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
[58] In 2023 OKO Group was among the major contributors to the campaign of the candidate in the Republican party presidential primaries Francis Suarez, the current mayor of Miami.
[62] In March 2022 the Moscow Arbitration Court ordered OOO Ballini, a real estate management firm founded by Doronin, into bankruptcy procedures.
Doronin's friends includes Tony Shafrazi, a New York gallery owner and dealer, who taught him about contemporary art and the late actor and photographer Dennis Hopper.
[79] In October 2021 the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands dismissed the appeal from Doronin against the 2019 ruling, which ordered him to demolish the works carried out illegally in 2014 at his mansion in a forested area on protected rustic land in Ibiza.
The illegal construction was located in Platges de Comte by the Nature Protection Service of Spain's Civil Guard in 2014 but the case dragged on for several years.
The property, designed by Zaha Hadid, has 3,300 m2 (36,000 sq ft) of space and includes a swimming pool, spa and a library and was estimated to have a market value of $140 million.
[84][85] In November 2010 Doronin and his then partner Naomi Campbell were among the organizers[86] of the Help the Tiger charity event, which took place at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and which was attended by DiCaprio and Vladimir Putin.
[87][88][89][90] For many years Doronin has been regularly practicing Qigong, including breathing techniques and fighting methods, and has demonstrated his abilities by demolishing slabs of marble with his head and breaking metal-tipped wooden spears against his throat.