Andrei Mironov Email & Phone Number

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Moscow, Russian Federation. Presnenskaya Nab 8 c1

Moscow, Russian Federation. Novoostapovskaya 5 bld. 3

I provide legal support for the A serial, LLC entity covering most of internal issues.negotiated longterm deal with HBO inc. and A serial, llcmanaged all issues with international owners of the company (Mass media ownership restrictions)active anti-piracy protection with positive resultscooperation in GR on the mass-media regulatory issues

• Representation of trademark owners in administrative, criminal and civil cases against counterfeit production, illegal trademark use.
• Communication with police, customs and market regulators on brand protection issues.
• Contract management

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Distribution team support: management of over 500 Licence agreements (affiliate sales), advertisement agency agreements, direct advertisement sales, product placement and production agreements.
• Implementation of company policies to the local company and compliance services – editorial control after onscreen age-marks (child protection), anti-tobacco regulation, filing of a copies to federal archive, etc.
• Application of anti-corruption policies for Russian clients. Compliance check of new clients.
• Successful debt collection in Moscow arbitrage court and Cases for specific performance (continue to perform obligations under licence agreement).
• Legal support for operational activity of media-company, including issues connected with employment, work for hire agreements.
• Support of distribution in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. Solution of the distribution ban in Belarus (broadcasting of Discovery channels was banned from March till July 2014 due to changes in local regulations.

• Legal work concerning operating of social network, trademarks, copyright protection. Made several legal practices helping minimize taxation of the business.
• Developed standard forms of agreements for the odnoklassniki.ru.
• Counseling license agreements with major music and movies labels, drafting and collecting documents for DueDil procedure to Mail Group IPO in Nov 2010.
• Application of Personal data management with the regulation came into force in 2010

• Legal and operational support for the company established by Russian music industry companies and international music publishers and record companies (Universal, Sony BMG, Warner)
• Implemented effective practice of killing illegal trackers and streams of music in internet.
• Working on amendments of civil law for music industry in State government and legal commission of State Duma.
• Created an offer for internet service providers, so they can exercise the “safe harbor” rule in copyright infringement cases

• Legal support of the social network from the registration of the company to all contractual work of MySpace in Russian and CIS market.
• Without entering into court received a “myspace.ru” domain name from its owner.
• Did all work for closing the company when it was decided to cancel work of most international MySpace offices.

I did some legal work, concerning running business in Russia.

Built new legal team there. Left the company for MySpace.

• Maintaining the legal work for one of the largest Russian newspaper.
• Management of legal department work.
• Drafting documents and collection of data and information for Due Diligence procedure.
• Maintaining work with the Kremlin administration, concerning elections in 2007 and 2008
• Entering into court pleadings in Germany and USA (copyright protection)
• Managing legal issues for www.aif.ru website.

• Copyright protection of MTV content, including self-production content and foreign content.
• Rights management for TV programs obtained from Russian and foreign owners;
• Development of all documents concerning TV translation via satellite, via cable, over the air in many regions in Russia
• Negotiations with Viacom on the subject of Licence agreement for translation rights of VH1 channel.
• Rights management for www.mtv.ru website.
• Creation of agreements for non-television productions marked with MTV trademark (CD-audio, videos, souvenirs, etc.).

• Creation and management of the flexible system of companies, and their association into holding (Art. Lebedev Group of Companies).
• Registration of the trademarks, management of the registered trademarks (License agreements, etc.)
• Contractual work. Creation of the agreements. Development of the accounting system for the signed and executable agreements. Creation of the electronic archive of the documents.
• Negotiation on the contractual issues with contractors.
• Settlement of the juridical issues arising in the company.
• Development and implementation of the definitions, concerning objects present in the web-sites and in web. Due to the lack of official legal acts, terms, developed by me, have become de-facto standard in Russian part.

Specialist, International Law, Copyright, Media Law

Activities and Societies: I was an administrative director of University newspaper "Mezhdunarodnik" Studied international law. Worked as.

Specialist, Psychology

Activities and Societies: I participated in Psychology conferences during my study there studied psychology

Master'S Degree, International Trade Law, Intellectual Property, Corporate Law

High School Graduate, Standard School Studies

It was a final year of school studies and I graduated from this sxool in May 1994 and left back to Russia to develop my legal skills in.