General Counsel, Member of the Board of Directors Main achievements: Facilitated the ‘divorce’ and friendly transition of business between the Grandis Group owner, former partner in Aton and Aton Group. Coordinated foreign litigators in their successful debt collection under loan agreement. • Developed the structure and documentation for the provision of synthetic brokerage services in derivatives exchanges. • Structured and Drafted numerous ISDA bespoke derivatives. • Contracted foreign law firms for legal opinions which were favorable for the group’s business. Facilitated numerous negotiations and drafted agreements for debt restructuring, loans, secured finance etc.

Developed structures and drafted contracts for riskless financing (project finance for undisclosed client), secured financing, project financing. Secured transactions under English law. Drafted tailored derivatives contracts under ISDA Master Agreement. Developed the structure and drafted most of the documents for the off-shore synthetic brokerage and asset management services (derivative contract linked to synthetic reference portfolio as an equivalent for traditional financial services contract). Coordinated international law firms involvement. Held numerous effective negotiations with international financial institutions and law firms.

Private practice lawyer. Collection of debts, business consulting, litigation, real estate transfer consulting, some pro bono work for NGOs etc.

Main achievements: Gaining and selling of control over JSC Energocentre by acquiring its debts and defaulted bonds; legal solutions and contractual framework for the clients’ access into the major stock exchanges electronically, legal framing of the new products, such as the algorithmic trading and the distribution of foreign structured instruments to the clients; redevelopment of the contractual framework for the regional chain. • Provided overall legal support for the financial services of the company and its overseas affiliates in Cyprus, Bermudas, Cayman Islands etc. Prepared contracts and letters of advice. Developed legal schedules and solutions. Assessed legal risks, including those related to the electronic transactions and e-signatures. • Facilitated projects in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking. • Participated in negotiations with foreign brokers and stock exchanges (LSE, NASDAQ, NYSE). Revised contracts with foreign financial institutions. • Drafted and negotiated schedules to Master Agreements (including GMRA, NSMA (‘NFA’) and ISDA). • Developed legal reasoning for the company’s relations with the regulators. • Legal research. Leaved for studing at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Master of Laws programme).

Main achievement: redrafted all the company’s documents, redeveloped all the business processes and prepared the company for the regulatory inspection. • Directed all legal and compliance activities (including financial contracts, taxes, labor, corporate activities etc.). • Facilitated brokerage, capital management, custodian and dealer activities. Drafted and supervised drafting of contracts, internal by-laws and letters of advice. Developed legal solutions. • Developed and successfully introduced legal framework and internal procedures for new products of the Company such as the following: • services for sub-brokers and sub-custodians; • brokerage and capital management services based algorithmic trading; • capital management on derivatives market solutions. • Developed and successfully introduced business-oriented compliance and anti-money laundry procedures. Achieved approval of these procedures by NAUFOR and FCSM. Supervised preventing, discovering and rectifying violations. • Mentored other professionals on various legal and compliance matters. Improved company’s processes to mitigate operational risk. Provided internal legal consulting. • Managed relations with foreign partners of the Company in Cyprus and Germany. • Conducted communication with the Federal Financial Market Commission, NAUFOR, MICEX and RTS Exchange.

Main personal achievement: Over 20 participations in various insolvency and privatisation tenders and auctions. Successfully prevented “friendly-auction” scams: participated in a number of auctions where organisers were trying to prevent independent bidders from participation (including notorious YUKOS insolvency auctions). • Provided legal support of brokerage, custodian and dealer activities; • Facilitated Investment Bank activities. Drafted contracts and agreements, legal opinions, participated in transactions structure development (including business sales, elements of М&A etc.). • Actively participated in claims and litigations arising from minority shareholders’ rights violations, sale of shares agreements etc. • Drafted documents for General Shareholders Meetings, requests for the pre-emption and redemption of shares, documents disclosure requests etc. • Facilitated official correspondence with the Federal Antitrust Agency, Central Bank and the Federal Financial Market Commission.

Intensive proceedings and claims against renters (up to five proceedings a week). Preparing legal opinions; correspondence exchange on legal matters.

review of contracts and charters, collect and collate materials on various legal matters registration of legal entities etc.