ANTON SMIRNOV
Anton has been acting on and supervising conduct of cross-border disputes, asset-tracing and recovery matters. Relevant jurisdictions included Russia, Cyprus, England, BVI, France, Monaco, USA (New York, Connecticut, South Carolina), Switzerland.
Anton has extensive experience acting for Russian and foreign companies in disputes in all major Russian
courts, international arbitration, foreign court proceedings. He has conducted numerous internal investigations in Russia and the CIS on allegations of bribery and antitrust violations, advised and represented international companies in the course of regulatory investigations by Russian regulators.
Ekaterina Ryabkova
Ekaterina was a senior legal counsel for AliExpress Russian and CIS business. She focused on payments-related issues (AML, FX conversion, currency control), IT, antifraud, cybersecurity, sanctions compliance, intellectual property, and prevention of illegal practices. She negotiated agreements under the laws of Russia, China, Hong Kong and Singapore, handled numerous disputes with IP rightholders, consumers and sellers at AliExpress e-commerce platform, regularly dealt with financial, antitrust, data protection, customs regulators, as well as criminal law enforcement authorities.
Ekaterina’s practice also includes general corporate, M&A and joint venture matters (negotiating and drafting SPAs, SHAs, Put Options, Articles of Association). She advised on dispute resolution and litigation matters, handled pre-trial correspondence with counterparties and authorities under Russian, English and Singapore law.