A top-performing Legal Counsel with extensive experience in Banking and Finance industries. Highly skilled in overseeing cross-border finance projects in lending and equity, ensuring adherence to international and domestic legal regulations within the CIS market. Proven ability in accomplishing financing transactions, ensuring streamlined, accurate execution. Extremely matured in secured-debt financing and knowledgeable of issues associated with various classes of assets. Recognized for fostering clear channels of communication, providing insights and expertise to interdisciplinary teams to enhance operational workflow, quality control, and profitability. Recognized for being a trusted, honest, loyal, reliable team member driving mutual goal-sharing across departments. Facilitated various M&A transactions, including due-diligence research, reporting, options, and regulatory stipulations. Fluent in Russian and English.
Oversee client account management throughout the Dubai office, providing full legal support in cross-border finance and M&A transactions, focusing on the CIS market. Administer comprehensive, on-going training and education of junior legal professionals to ensure understanding of regulations, risks, drafting techniques, and clients' requirements and expectations.
Maintained client records and delivered detailed and risk adjusted advice to international and local clients on various issues pertaining to legislation in cross-border and domestic finance transactions and financial institutions. Acted as subject matter expert in conventional and syndicated lending, trade and commodity lending, capital markets, Islamic finance, aircraft financing, financial regulations, security arrangements, corporate and finance due diligence, currency control, general corporate law, and banking M&A, among other areas of expertise.
Provided consultative and transactional legal advice on various corporate and retail banking products for clients in corporate business, trade, treasury, compliance, and operational departments within the bank.