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Kirill Sergeevich Kuznetsov
Legal counsel

Not married, without kids.

+357 9405 6939; kyrill.ellinika@gmail.com

Reside in: Limassol, Cyprus with work permit till 2026
Citizenship: Russia
Legal work experience : 11 years

Main fields of experience :
 mergers and acquisitions (corporate );
 tax law ;
 sanctio ns law.
February 2022 and
ongoing
Skanestas Investments Limited
Cyprus, https://skanestas.com/
Employed as the Specialist of Legal and Compliance :
1) Drafting of sanctions policy and suggested automation of procedures and
their improvement in accordance with law changes;
2) Manual review of counterparties, clients and their source of funds for
sanctions;
3) Ongoing monitoring and notifying employees on c hanges in EU, US, and
UK sanctions;
4) Market abuse monitoring: improvement of internal system and addition
of external system, answering to inquiries by foreign counterparties;
5) Review and suggested automation of US tax on publicly -traded
partnerships, US withholding tax in accordance with tax treaties of
clients, taxes of Cyprus;
6) Occasional drafting of agreements: investment, joint venture, services...
7) Review of onboarding documents with banks, brokers and service
providers, participation in negotiati ons.
September 20 20 —
February 2022
ASB Consulting Group
Russia, https://asbconsulting.ru/
Employed as the Senior lawyer :
1) Drafting of documentation for investment funds and their subfunds
(Cayman, Delaware);
2) Drafting of shareholders / corporate agreements (law of England /
Russia);
3) Sale of shares and participatory interest in foreign and Russian entities;
4) FATCA / CRS c ompliance for funds and their investors;
5) KPI based employment agreement with foreign employee (UAE).
September 2019 —
March 2020
BKHK law firm (Inter -Regional Advocates -at-Law for city of Moscow)
Russia, https://bkhk.ru/

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Employed as the Senior lawyer :
1) Step -by -step streamlining of two related Liechtenstein -based family
foundation with underlying assets;
2) Suggestion of mode of importation of a yacht into the European Union
from tax standpoint;
3) Assessment of token and blockchain regime under Liechtenstein act of
2019, suggestion of banks ready to transact with these assets
4) Comparison of Liechtenstein’s trust and foundations from standpoint of
accounting, taxation, disclosure of information in registries, its exchange
under CRS and FATCA;
5) Suggestion of modes of returning of a child to a French mother retained
by a Russian father;
6) Keeping track of Russian liberalization to currency controls in years
2019 –2020.
April 2019 —
June 2019
Family office of a shareholder of LLC “Firm ‘Gera’”
Russia, https://geragroup.ru/
Employed as the sole legal counsel :
1) Legal supervision to venture investment in a U.S. company (tracking
device in shoes)
2) Preparation of shareholder’s positions towards potential Chinese
investment into a game development company from Russia;
3) Suggestion of a mode of exit from a jointly -held Luxembourg company;
4) Verification of share prices on every investment round of a L uxembourg -
based company, alleviation of dilution consequences;
5) Calculation of provision income tax of a Cypriot company;
6) Filing a return for controlled foreign company with a Russian tax
authority;
7) Selection of mode of funding of a United Kingdom -bas ed natural person
for a mortgage down -payment;
8) Negotiation and completion of a mortgage loan with a bank of Armenia.
December 2016 —
April 2018
Investment Group “Absolut” (≈3000 employees)
Russia, www.absrealty.ru
Employed as the Head of section for relations with financial institutions
Tasks of the sections consisting of 5 employees:
1) Drafting of loan agreements, investment agreements, sale and purchase
ag reements, agreements providing security on them
2) Collection of information and giving answers to banks’, brokers’,
exchanges’ requests in connection of payments and amending documents
to their desires.
3) Taking part in elaboration of financial and legal s tructures of transactions
and holdings
4) Writing legal opinions on matters of tax, limitations on currency
exchange (for Russia), sanctions and export control measures, and
corporate law of Russia, Cyprus, Germany, the United Kingdom, USA

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(State of New Yor k).
5) Maintenance of non -Russian companies, including collections of
documents for opening of bank and broker accounts in Cyprus, Malta,
Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
April 2012 —
December 2016
Parallel. Legal Consultants LLC (25 -30 employees)
Moscow, http://www.prll.ru/en/
Employed as the Consultant for international tax planning :
1) Drafting of:
o Articles of Association of foreign and Russian companies;
o agreements on sale of shares and shareholders’ agreements in respect
of foreign and Russian companies;
o constituent documents for family foundations and trusts;
o investment agreements (on real estate development);
o document of a coaching organizer: i n Russia and the Silicon Valley –
thereby the coach was given an option -right over sha res over foreign
joint venture.
2) “Turn -key” supervision and investor’s representation in French
pharmaceutical joint venture start -up through a promissory note
convertib le into shares.
3) Provision of opinions on matters of:
o taxes and levies in Andorra, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Gibraltar,
Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Russia, Slo vakia,
Switzerland, and the USA ;
o private international law of the British Virgin Islands, Belarus, Cyprus,
Germany, Russia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA
(State of New York) ;
o public international law: on immunities of an international
organization, inter -State aid in legal mattes, etc.
July 2010 —
December 20 11
Consulting Club LLC (10 -15 employees)
Moscow, http://www.consulting -club.ru/
Employed as the Lawyer of international tax practice :
1) Taking part in drafting of shareholders’ agreements;
2) Keeping charter documents of foreign companies compliant with
shareholders’ agreements;
3) Drafting holding companies’ re solutions;
4) Consulting on tax issues extraneous to Russia;
5) Keeping watchful eye over clients’ debts under Employer’s invoices.
October 2008 —
October 2009
RwR Holding Service LLC (10 employees)
Moscow, www.rwr -group.ru
Employed as the Corporate lawyer :
1) Registration and wounding -up of legal persons;
2) Drafting of contracts, companies’ resolutions and internal directives;
3) Drawing -up of statements of claim, claims on inclusion on creditors’ list

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in bankruptcy cases;
4) Registration of contract s for real estate transactions .
E d u c a t i o n
2008 Graduate of Law Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Specialized at Public International Law
P r o f e s s i o n a l d e v e l o p m e n t
2023 Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC ) Advanced exam
(certificate extended for 2024 )
2013 Lectures program "Private International Law"
at Non -Governmental School for Law “Statut”
2009 — 2010
Lectures programs “Criminal, constitutional and civil law of Germany” at
Lomonosov Moscow State University
K e y s k i l l s
Other skills MS Word MS Excel MS Visio MS PowerPoint
Thomson Reuters: Checkpoint, Practical Law, West Law
Languages Russian – native speaker
English, German – C1
French – B1
Greek – A2 (certified )
Pu blications Works published are available here: https://yadi.sk/i/EaUWSZkD3PFcZv