High education / Experience

Educational Institutions, Degrees, Memberships

September, 2020 – July, 2022

Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Legal Regulation of International Commercial Activity, Master's degree

September, 2016 – July, 2020

Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Department of International Law, Bachelor's degree

Foreign Languages

English, French

Professional Activity

Specialization

• Company incorporation abroad: advising on the choice of a suitable jurisdiction, preparing a roadmap for incorporation, drafting and analyzing documents, and supervising turnkey incorporation;
• Company redomiciliation: structuring the project, analyzing the objectives and selecting a jurisdiction suitable for the project’s goals, drafting and issuing the necessary documents for the incoming and outgoing parts, and supporting the redomiciliation procedure;
• Company administration: renewing foreign companies, monitoring the compliance of the company’s activities and structure with the laws of the country of incorporation, making economic substance filings with the government authorities, making corporate changes in the company structure, supporting the change of the registered agent, etc.;
• Drafting corporate and other documents: making and issuing powers of attorney, share purchase agreements, additional agreements, loan agreements, assignment agreements, etc.;
• Opening accounts at foreign banks in Asia, Europe, CIS countries, and Gulf countries, and in EMIs worldwide: obtaining pre-approval for account opening, agreeing the resident / non-resident company file with the financial institution, and supporting the account opening up until the client receives the account details and tokens;
• Compliance: checking the set of documents, conducting due diligence on a foreign company, and giving recommendations on how to make the company file complete depending on the requirements in a particular jurisdiction;

Projects completed

• 20+ redomiciliations of holding, service, and investment companies from the British Virgin Islands to Seychelles in order to change the company’s jurisdiction and comply with the corporate laws of the country of incorporation.
• 30+ voluntary liquidations of British Virgin Islands and Seychelles companies, involving a liquidator, distribution of assets to the shareholder in the absence of creditor’s claims and obtaining documentary proof of the closure of the company.
• Assisting in the liquidation of a Dubai free zone company (UAE), visa cancellation, closing of a local bank account, and closing of the company’s migration file.
• Liquidation of a brokerage company in Vanuatu with revocation of the licence and return of a VUV 5 000 000 deposit and the share capital to the company’s shareholders.
• Supporting a transaction between a Russian company and a British Virgin Islands company for the sale of a Jersey-flagged merchant vessel. The transaction amount was approximately EUR 5 000 000.
• Supporting the change of director / shareholder / beneficial owner in active trading/holding Hong Kong limited liability companies, with payment of mandatory stamp duty in Hong Kong.
• Executing the change of registered agent / representative for companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Seychelles, and the UAE, with conducting the necessary compliance procedures and amending the corporate documents of the companies.
• Being on a task team working on the court restoration of a liquidated British Virgin Islands company with the involvement of a local lawyer: preparing the company file and documents for the court, filing the application, assisting with payment of necessary British Virgin Islands government fees and duties for the past and current periods, and obtaining a certificate of restoration of the company.