• FATCA/AML compliance, in-house counseling of the Board: restructuring, incorporation in the Russian Federation and abroad, contract translation review and drafting, legal negotiation, and litigation ⁻ Implemented compliance procedures, kept register of bylaws, policies and contracts; registered a group of companies with the IRS, conducted due diligence/AML procedures and filed FATCA compliance reports ⁻ Drafted agreements and memoranda on Russian and English corporate law (trust, nominee and share options, commercial lease) CFC (КИК) legislation, and venture projects ⁻ Trained and mentored three junior lawyers, proofread bilingual contracts (NDA, Agency, Employment and more) in Russian to English and vice versa ⁻ Drafted claims and represented the company in commercial lease disputes (Arbitration Court of Moscow) ⁻ Incorporated five companies in Cyprus and BVI ⁻ Drafted agreements on transfer of IP rights (social networks, computer games, and other similar arenas)

• Business negotiation; international B2B sales; designing new products and services; international Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) legal review and quality assurance, contract law, contract drafting and MSAs in pharmaceutical logistics; Implemented and overviewed internal procedures as per international SOPs; drafted SOPs in Russian; revised, successfully negotiated and signed numerous agreements with big pharma companies and top CROs, generating $400.000 in profits within the first 5 months of employment

• NGO Compliance, Start-ups, children’s rights, project management, international accessible education, knowledge management, legal research (LexisNexis, Westlaw), interpersonal and intercultural communications Advised a Europe-based NGO with regards to accessible education for underprivileged children on compliance issues involved in the process of rebranding and expanding their work internationally; performed legal research for a start-up organization on the subject of NGO-corporate partnerships; drafted memoranda, co-originated operational procedures and a prototype network for knowledge management regional cooperation

• Legal counseling, contract drafting, project management, client relationship development, and execution of ISDA and GMRA agreements Drafted, negotiated and executed numerous agreements (including schedules for ISDA and GRMA) with top international banks; advised bank management on FATCA; created and implemented an innovative agreement on the Russian market RISDA (Russian ISDA) using ISDA as a prototype; represented Credit Europe Bank before domestic/international financial institutions and governments; developed and maintained relationships; held Controller of trade operations position in the middle office

• Teaching, educational methodology evaluation, communications, international cooperation in education and multilingual coaching Taught general and business English; audited and monitored an educational program abroad and successfully collaborated in a work group as a group leader with colleagues in both the USA and the Russian Federation on original ideas to review and improve the existing educational methodology in a leisure and study program for the students; awarded with “EF Teacher of 2007” special prize