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I assist clients with cross-border mergers & acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, venture capital, and tech transactions in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets. I enjoy helping tech start-ups/scale-ups. Dual-qualified in New York and Russia over my 20+ year legal career I have worked in London, Moscow, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.My recent experience includes:- Representation of FINCA Impact, a major U.S. impact finance company, in a number of projects including: divestiture of FINCA’s subsidiary in Ecuador to Insotec; divestiture of its Russian business (second largest in Russian microfinance sector) to Mikro Kapital; divestiture of FINCA’s subsidiary in Georgia to Credo Bank; restructuring of FINCA’s operations in Armenia; obtaining financing in two Central Asian CIS countries; divestiture of FINCA’s loan portfolio in one of the regions in Russia; restructuring of FINCA’s financing from EBRD, MEF and responsAbility.- Representation of Fort Ross, the global venture capital fund in a number of equity investments in hi-tech industry in the U.S. and Israel, including Gett (taxi app), Moven (fintech), Peek Travel (traveltech), BlueShift (marketing automation), Mynd Management (property management), Illusive (cybersecurity) and others.- Representation of numerous technological startups with European founders in connection with establishing corporate presence in the U.S., “flipping” European companies to Delaware, entering the U.S. market, raising capital in the U.S., and global expansion.- Advising a number of Venture Capital firms in connection with structuring and establishment of Delaware, Cayman, Luxembourg and other investment funds, including segregated portfolio funds and series LLCs.- Advising numerous international companies, including Baidu, SMG, Meraki, AppDynamics, World Triathlon Corporation and others, on Russian and international data privacy issues.- Representation of a “fund of funds” in an investment, financing, acquisition and restructuring of a Luxembourg private equity fund and a chain of nine large luxury hotels in Bulgaria.

Listed skills include Joint Ventures, Mergers And Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and 13 others.