High education / Experience

Educational Institutions, Degrees, Memberships

November, 2020 – December, 2020

Autumn school: Introduction to German Law / German-Russian Bar Association

September, 2021 – June, 2024

National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, Moscow – Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration (Master’s degree)

September, 2017 – July, 2021

National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, St. Petersburg – Jurisprudence (Bachelor’s degree)

Foreign Languages

Russian – native; English – C1-C2; German – A2

Professional Activity

Specialization

• Experience of working with more than 35 jurisdictions on legal and banking matters;
• Supporting M&A transactions, drafting share purchase agreements (SPA), shareholder agreements (SHA), and call/put option agreements;
• Advising on corporate law (of both common law and continental law countries);
• Advising on trusts and foundations;
• Providing legal support to IT projects. Advising on intellectual property and software protection abroad and tax planning for companies with IT business. Advising on economic substance for IT companies;
• Providing legal support to fintech and crypto projects. Selecting a jurisdiction for the project. Obtaining VASP and payment licences in various jurisdictions. Advising on economic substance for fintech companies;
• Drafting company-investor agreements: SAFE, SAFT, and convertible loan agreements;
• Forming foreign companies and partnerships. Supporting account opening at banks and in EMIs;

Projects completed

• Providing legal, corporate and banking support to a board games and toys manufacturer entering the market of a South-East Asian country.
• Legal support of the redemption of investor shares in a BVI company. The total amount was approximately USD 3 million.
• Creating a corporate structure for a project to launch its own blockchain system and issue stablecoin.
• Supporting a project to launch its own trading platform for cryptocurrency exchange and issue its own token for this service.
• Company registration and legal support for a project to develop software for improving the efficiency of cryptocurrency turnover. The project’s clients are large financial institutions investing in the cryptocurrency market.
• Providing legal and corporate support to a software startup for electrical systems designing.
• Full legal support for an IP telephony startup.
• Providing corporate support to a software startup for oil and gas field geophysical exploration.
• Providing written and oral consultations on starting a Serbian IT business for web hosting and cybersecurity. Selecting a structure with optimal taxation.
• Extensively advising a software supplier on possible US and EU sanctions risks.
• Investigating, at the request of a large financial business, the possibility of creating collective investment schemes (investment funds) in various jurisdictions around the world.