High education / Experience
Educational Institutions, Degrees, Memberships
- Member of the Federation of Professional Coaches and Mentors
- Psychodemy, course: Mastery of Psychological Counselling, qualification: psychologist-consultant
- February, 2024 – March, 2024
- National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, advanced training course: Fundamentals of Coaching
- October, 2019 – October, 2019
- Series of seminars: Successfully applying to the European Court of Human Rights: from theory to practice, Strasbourg, France
- September, 2007 – June, 2012
- Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Translator in the field of professional communication
- September, 2007 – June, 2012
- Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), International Law Institute, Lawyer
Foreign Languages
- English, French
Professional Activity
Specialization
Consulting:
- Risk assessment: identifying and analyzing legal risks, developing risk mitigation mechanisms and strategies;
- Strategic planning: assistance in developing business strategies in line with the regulatory requirements of the jurisdiction and the client’s plans;
- Legal compliance: creating and maintaining a structure that takes into account the strategy and current developments in the legislation;
Company formation abroad:
- Choosing a jurisdiction: analyzing the case and selecting a suitable country to register a company in;
- Establishing a corporate structure: determining the optimal structure, taking into account tax and legal aspects;
- Preparing documents: drafting and filing the necessary documents with government authorities;
- Procedural support: assistance in complying with formal requirements, including obtaining licences and permits;
Company administration and legal support:
- Legal support: advising on legal matters and compliance with regulations;
- Documentation supervision: administering and maintaining corporate documentation;
- Problem solving: assistance in legal matters and dealing with banks, EMIs, accountants, auditors, and partners;
Opening personal and corporate bank accounts abroad:
- Choosing a bank/EMI: assistance in selecting a bank / EMI and type of account;
- Preparing and submitting documents: collecting, analyzing and making the necessary documents for account opening, agreeing them with the bank / EMI manager;
- Compliance: ensuring full AML and KYC compliance;
Legal review of documents and drafting of legal opinions:
- Document analysis: checking and analyzing documents for compliance with legal requirements and internal corporate regulations, conducting due diligence;
- Preparing legal opinions: drafting opinions and recommendations on legal matters;
Sales methodology and development of client relations:
- Developing sales strategies: doing market research, identifying customer needs, developing pricing and communication strategies;
- Sales structuring: standardizing processes from customer capture to post-sale service. Fine-tuning and using in-house CRM;
- Team training and development: conducting training and coaching sessions to develop skills and improve team performance. Developing standards of order processing and communication style followed by regular evaluations;
- Data analysis and monitoring: using analytical tools to monitor sales, prepare reports and improve service quality;
Making corporate documents:
- shareholder agreements, share purchase agreements, transfer documents for shares and beneficial rights;
- memoranda and articles of association, partnership agreements;
- documents related to the establishment of a trust and the transfer of assets, trust deeds;
- minutes of board / shareholders’ meetings;
- registers of directors / secretaries / shareholders;
- agreements of various legal nature;
- documents on changes in the company structure: change of directors, secretaries, shareholders, address, M&AA, registered agent, redomiciliation, etc.;
- business plans, profiles for banks / EMIs;
Projects completed
- Company registration and support in Italy (SRL) and Germany (GmbH) for a well-known Russian clothing and accessories manufacturer. The client was able to focus on developing the brand and entering a new market, leaving us to take care of legal and administrative aspects.
- Registration in Istanbul of a sales representative office of a large manufacturing company for the purpose of Turkish (Istanbul) market research, promotion and customer relations.
- Registration in Delhi, India of a subsidiary of a large international company for the purpose of streamlining business processes and expanding into the Indian market.
- Opening a branch of a foreign company in Seoul, South Korea, including obtaining all necessary permits, registering for tax and opening a local bank account.
- Registration of a company in Jamaica to acquire land plots for resort business development.
- Supporting a transaction that involved the exit of one of the shareholders and sale of his share in the company to a foreign fund in a large Internet project. The amount of the transaction was USD 6 million.
- 150+ registered companies with structure of varying degrees of complexity, both in island jurisdictions: Belize, BVI, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Marshall Islands, Panama, Seychelles, etc., and in such countries as Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Turkey, UK, UAE, South Korea, India and others.
- 600+ opened accounts at banks and in EMIs: investment, savings, settlement, and merchant accounts.
- Creating and implementing a methodology for processing online chat requests on GSL websites (19 000+ dialogues). Systematic quality control and regular analysis of each dialogue to correct deficiencies.
Viktoriia Zhuravleva
Lawyer, Deputy Head of GSL International Division for sales methodology and development of client relations
| Age | 36 | years |
| Length of Professional Experience | 14 | years |
| Length of Service at GSL | 14 | years |