PEOPLE TO WATCH: Vladislav Doronin, founder, OKO Group and Capital Group A new force is landing in Miami. This Russian billionaire’s 85-story OKO Tower in Moscow is Europe’s tallest building. He owns the famed Aman resort empire, and is seeking to expand it into city hotels as well. (One potential location: The top 20 floors… Read more »
Expanding the Chain ‘On this issue I won’t compromise’ – Vladislav Doronin, owner of the Aman hotel chain on growing the business vertically, elegant simplicity, and future plans. Text by Kristina Moskalenko In March 2016, the High Court in London issued an order confirming a settlement, in which Russian developer, Vladislav Doronin, was to have… Read more »
Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin made his fortune building a property empire. He rose to fame as the jet-setting owner and chairman of Aman, the resort name favored by A-list celebrities and the billionaire crowd. STORY RYAN SWIFT It has been a tumultuous legal road, but property magnate Vladislav Doronin has finally gained sole ownership of… Read more »
Branded by the well-known Italian fashion house, the Missoni Baia will offer 146 condos fronting Biscayne Bay Rendering of the Missoni Baia building in Edgewater, Miami Two other condo projects are planned in the Brickell area; Doronin also owns Aman and is scouting Miami Beach locations While most developers are pulling back as Miami’s high-end condo… Read more »
Billionaire teams up with Missoni for luxury South Florida complex By IRA IOSEBASHVILI Russian property mogul Vladislav Doronin flew to Milan earlier this year to wrap up his deal with Italian fashion house Missoni. The company, he believed, was partnering with him on one of his first U.S. developments. But once he arrived, Mr. Doronin… Read more »
At a hearing in a New York court today, US Bankruptcy Judge Shelley Chapman heard argument on a motion to dismiss the involuntary bankruptcy action filed by purported creditors against ARGL (Aman Resorts Group Limited) – a BVI holding company with no assets or liabilities or interest in the similarly named but unrelated luxury Aman… Read more »
Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin has scored victories in London and New York in a long-running dispute over a former business partner in his Aman Resorts luxury hotel chain. Mr. Doronin’s first victory occurred earlier last week, when the High Court in London issued an order confirming the settlement between the Russian hotel operator and the… Read more »
11th March 2016, New York: Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP (Kasowitz), the official board appointed lawyers for Aman Resort Group Ltd (ARGL), filed a notice today in the New York Court dismissing the lawsuit that had been improperly filed earlier this week by US law firm Brown Rudnick, who purported to be acting for… Read more »
10th March 2016 “These proceedings are simply the reckless actions of Mr Omar Amanat, in a desperate attempt to cause distraction following his complete failure in the UK Courts this week to have anything further to do with luxury hotel chain Aman. Mr Amanat is using the description ‘involuntary bankruptcy’ in order to confuse people… Read more »
Vladislav Doronin has retained full control of Aman, the hotel group he took over in 2014, following a successful High Court ruling in London. The Russian businessman originally paired up with Omar Amanat to buy Aman Resorts for $358 million, at the time prevailing over other bidders for the hotel portfolio, loved the world over… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE: Victory for Vladislav Doronin as he secures luxury hotel group Aman in High Court settlement London, 8th March 2016. Mr Vladislav Doronin, international businessman, philanthropist and owner of Aman since August 2015 has achieved a successful settlement of all claims in the long-running court dispute. The High Court in London has today issued… Read more »
Located in the capital’s business district, occupying six floors of the newly built Otemachi Tower, Aman’s Tokyo property marked the brand’s entry into Japan and is also its sole city hotel. The interiors, designed by international firm Kerry Hill Architects, pay homage to the local setting with the use of a serene, natural palette of… Read more »
24 November 2015 Wall Street Journal ROBYN A. FRIEDMAN Existing condos, coops acquired with plans to demolish and build anew As prime development sites become scarce in many parts of the country, particularly in coastal areas like South Florida, condominium developers are becoming more creative in their efforts to secure buildable land. More builders nowadays… Read more »
Since taking over the stewardship of the Aman hotel group, Vladislav Doronin (W*193) has proven to be every bit as canny as Adrian Zecha, the visionary hotelier who launched the first Aman in 1988. Choosing to open the group’s debut Japanese property in downtown Tokyo – an already heavily saturated market – was a calculated… Read more »
Inventors of the Aman Resorts, the exclusive holiday hideaway, are putting major plans for expansion into action. Claire Wrathall is granted a rare audience The business grew and was sold last year for $358 million to a consortium of investors (now bought out) led by the billionaire Russian construction magnate Vladislav Doronin. It has not… Read more »
As of 11th of August 2015 Pontwelly Holding Company Ltd (Pontwelly), which was previously the largest lender to Aman, has taken full ownership of the Aman hotel business (Silverlink Resorts Ltd). Following this restructuring the current Chairman of Aman, Mr Vladislav Doronin and Board Director, Mr Alan Djanogly, remain as the only two directors. Olivier… Read more »
London, 17th July 2015 Vladislav Doronin, the majority investor and owner of Aman Resorts, has won another victory in the battle over the Aman Group. At the High Court in London on Friday 17th July 2015 Mr Justice Barling rejected Omar Amanat’s application for $US 9 million to be released by the court. Amanat had… Read more »
Vladislav Doronin, Chairman of the Board of Aman, said, “The launch of Amanera is a clear illustration of brand progression and represents a number of firsts for Aman; not only is this our first fully-integrated golf resort, but it is one that unusually presents ocean vistas from every hole. This, our first foray into the… Read more »
VLADISLAV DORONIN, 52 Founder and chairman, Capital Group Real estate developer Doronin — worth about $1 billion and dubbed the “Donald Trump of Russia” — founded Moscow-based Capital Group in 1991. Since then, its portfolio has ballooned to include more than 70 luxury residential and commercial projects worldwide. Doronin is also the majority owner of… Read more »
April 2015 Vladislav Doronin, majority shareholder and board director of Amanresorts, talks to Hotels Magazine about his vision for the exclusive luxury brand. Click here for the full version originally published in Hotels Magazine.
23 March 2015 Vladislav Doronin’s vision for the urbanisation of Aman was realised with the spectacular official opening party of Aman Tokyo at the Otemachi Tower, Tokyo, Japan last week. Guests included distinguished members from Tokyo’s business elite, celebrities, Aman partners, and global Aman guests. Hollywood was represented with Aman regulars Edward Norton and Drew… Read more »
Report of the official opening of Aman Tokyo on 17 March 2015, including an interview with Amanresorts CEO Olivier Jolivet. Click on the link to watch the video: www.tv-tokyo.co.jp
23rd February 2015 Vladislav Doronin, the majority investor in the Aman Group, has taken another key step in the battle over the Aman Group. At the High Court in London on Friday (20th February 2015) Mr Justice Henderson ordered that Omar Amanat’s company PHRL pay into Court approximately $US 5 million as security for costs… Read more »
5 February 2015 Group eyes new clientele, with a new website, booking engine and roadshows on the cards, as London office expands. April Hutchinson Aman Resorts is keen to grow its client base beyond its “Amanjunkies” – wealthy guests who stay very loyal to the remote and exclusive resorts around the world. “We are very… Read more »
22 January 2015 Vladislav Doronin is Russia’s answer to Donald Trump. When the property magnate is not on a yacht with Leonardo DiCaprio, he’s busy dating the world’s most beautiful women. But as a boss of Aman, the hotel group of choice for the super-rich, with properties as far-flung as the Indonesian jungle and the… Read more »
3 December 2014 Vladislav Doronin and Julian Schnabel are seen at the installation of Julian Schnabel’s monumental sculpture ‘AHAB’ at Miami’s Brickell Flatiron Sales & Design Gallery on 3 December 2014 in Miami, Florida.
5 December 2014 The Supreme Court of the State of New York hearing Mr Vladislav Doronin’s claim against Omar Amanat for fraudulent inducement to enter an agreement and unjust enrichment, has stayed those proceedings pending completion of related UK litigation. The UK dispute concerns the shareholders agreement governing the management of the Aman Group of… Read more »
[…] Today, Amanzoe is among the Amanresorts caught in a takeover battle the likes of which the luxury-hotel industry has never seen, a Euripides-worthy drama/tragedy in which the temples of transquility have been filled with shouting; and the serenity of Amanresorts has been broken by the litigious voices of an Indian-American businessman, a Russian oligarch,… Read more »
7 November 2014 Another attempt by Omar Amanat to defeat Vladislav Doronin’s legitimate defence in the Aman Group’s shareholder dispute failed in the High Court in London following an interlocutory hearing on Friday 7th November. Amanat’s attempts to prevent the defences of both Doronin’s and Eliasch’s companies being filed and to obtain judgment in default… Read more »
4 November 2014 Vladislav Doronin announces the launch of the brand’s first city property: Aman Tokyo, scheduled to open its doors on Monday 22nd December, 2014. Occupying the top six floors of the recently-built Otemachi Tower, Aman Tokyo is an urban sanctuary high above the atmospheric whirl of tradition and modernity that epitomises Tokyo. Not… Read more »
Peak Hotels & Resorts Ltd (PHRL), a company currently in provisional liquidation, announced a change to its board by appointing a former Aman Group employee Carolyn Turnbull, as a director. The announcement attempted to suggest that as she would also be representing PHRL interests on the Board of Peak Hotels Resorts Group Ltd and Mr… Read more »
25 September 2014 In a judgment officially handed down last night, Wednesday 24th September, following a hearing in the High Court in London on Friday 19th September, Peak Hotels and Resorts Limited, Mr Omar Amanat’s company, once again failed in its attempt to prevent Johan Eliasch, the businessman and Chairman of Head, the global sporting… Read more »
16 September 2014 Vladislav Doronin, the Russian real estate giant and majority shareholder of the Aman Group, is taking another step towards returning the luxury hotel brand to greater stability as he prepares for a hearing in London this week. Following the recent boardroom disagreements, Mr Doronin has been working hard to protect the Aman… Read more »
4 September 2014 Fortune Magazine … For aficionados, Aman is much more than a hotel. It’s an experience unrivaled anywhere else. At the Aman at Summer Palace in Beijing, guests have access to a secret door that opens onto the east gate of the palace gardens. At the Aman Grand Canal in Venice, they are… Read more »
23 July 2014 Yahoo! Finance Vladislav Doronin, the majority shareholder of the Aman Group has reassured his staff that the current legal situation would be over soon. He outlined the dispute in an email to staff and then received a boost when his opponents failed to remove fellow Director, Johan Eliasch from the Aman Group board… Read more »
1 August 2014 Yahoo! Finance In the latest round of court action regarding the super-luxury hotel chain Aman Group, Mrs Justice Rose sitting in the High Court in London upheld a decision made by the board that their CEO, Mr Adrian Zecha, ceases to be CEO with effect from 1 August 2014. Mr Zecha is… Read more »
17 July 2014 Wall Street Journal The increasingly hostile dispute between partners of the luxury Amanresorts took a new twist on Wednesday, when Russian property mogul Vladislav Doronin asked a New York City court to force his co-owner to sell his share of the hotel company, according to court documents. Mr. Doronin alleges that his… Read more »