Yanina Petrovskaya

Ms. Petrovskaya is a multilingual expert in Russian law, with a focus on corporate and contract law. It also supports your international clients in other areas relevant to the Russian market, such as employment law, compliance and IP protection.

She advises large and medium-sized companies, especially in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, in their projects in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Ms. Petrovskaya has also mastered the very high administrative and legal costs in Russia & CIS compared to Europe. With her understanding of the Russian mentality, Ms. Petrovskaya therefore mostly works with her clients in the long term, thus building a lasting trust relationship with the clients. She understands how to handle German and international clients in an efficient and uncomplicated legal way, while showing a great understanding of the (legal) cultural background.

Russian, German, English, Polish, Spainish

• Head of Legal & Compliance, a Liechtenstein Wealth Management & Fund Management Company, Liechtenstein (2015 -2016)
• Head of Corporate Practice (2014 -2015), Lawyer (2012 -2014), Balashova Legal Consultants, Moscow
• Head of the Department of International Cooperation, A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow (2008-2012)

• Master’s degree in law (Swiss law), University of Lucerne (from 2016)
• Seminars on European and German corporate and insolvency law, Advoselect EWIV, Hamburg (2015), Chemnitz (2014)
• Further training course “Legal regulations for real estate and real estate transactions under Russian law”, Institute of Continuing Education M-Logos, Moscow (2014)
• Studies of law with the specialization of company law, Lomonosov Moscow State University (2009-2013)
• Summer school at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, introduction to Austrian law, Salzburg (2011)
• Studied Linguistics (German and English), Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk (2002-2007)

• Fulfillment of the court’s decision in nature. How do you get what you own in the court and not just the compensation? Lecture in the course of the event “M & A business in Russia – current law novellas: Open meeting of the committee for legal questions”, AHK, 2015, Moscow
• Receivables management in Russia, Lecture within the framework of the event “Contracts with Russian Business Partners”, IHK Koblenz, 2015, Koblenz

• On the innovations in the Civil Code, East-West Contact Journal, 2015
• Further improvement of legal certainty. For companies relevant innovations in the fields of Russian economic, corporate, labor and migration law in the years 2014 and 2015 in: German-Russian Economic Yearbook, East-West Contact Journal, 2014