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Most clients who find their way to me are dealing with a problem that sits between two legal systems at once — a business with income or assets abroad, a family navigating dual tax obligations, or a transaction that has to satisfy regulators in more than one country at the same time.
 

What drew me to cross-border work in the first place was less a plan than a fascination: few areas of law are as genuinely intricate as the point where two countries' tax and regulatory systems meet, and I found that complexity intellectually compelling rather than intimidating. I began my legal education at the HSE School of Law, earning a JD (Specialist of Law) in 2011 with an advanced qualification in administrative law. Early in my career, I made a deliberate pivot to make tax the core of my practice, which led me to complete an LL.M. in Taxation at New York Law School in 2023. I'm a New York-licensed attorney, an IRS Enrolled Agent, and hold an additional license as a Foreign Legal Consultant — credentials that, together, let me read a filing, a contract, or a regulatory notice the same way on both sides of a border, without losing anything in translation between legal systems.
 

I advise clients on U.S. and international tax planning, cross-border business structuring, and asset protection — wherever a client's affairs cross more than one legal system. My clients range from family offices and institutional investors to corporate and non-profit entities, entrepreneurs and multinational businesses, and individuals and professionals whose legal or tax affairs span more than one country.

My approach is built around prevention rather than damage control. I believe the best legal work happens before a problem becomes urgent — structuring a transaction, a filing, or an asset holding correctly the first time, rather than untangling it after a regulator or counterparty has already raised an objection. In practice, that means several things. It means mapping both sides of a client's situation early, so a decision that looks fine under U.S. law doesn't quietly create a problem under foreign law, or vice versa. It often means coordinating directly with a client's accountants and foreign counsel, so that everyone involved is working from the same picture rather than solving the problem in isolation. And it means explaining the reasoning behind my advice clearly enough that clients can weigh their own options, not simply follow instructions — because the clients I work best with tend to want a long-term advisor, not a one-time transaction.

That same judgment applies across the areas I practice in. My tax work covers international tax planning, cross-border restructurings, treaty analysis, IRS examinations, and the foreign information reporting and compliance obligations that arise whenever business or investment activity spans multiple jurisdictions. I also advise high-net-worth individuals, families, and family offices on asset protection and the lawful preservation of privacy — designing structures that withstand scrutiny while remaining fully compliant with disclosure requirements, rather than structures that merely look protective on paper. On the corporate and commercial side, I counsel on the equity and capital structure of investment vehicles, on mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations, and on drafting commercial agreements built to allocate risk clearly rather than paper over it. And I advise on banking, anti-money-laundering compliance, and U.S. sanctions compliance, where the cost of an ambiguous position can be very high. I also represent both investors and regional centers in EB-5 investor visa matters, from structuring the investment vehicle through the immigration petition process itself.
 

I've also written extensively on property, employment, and business law, an extension of the same close attention to how legal doctrine plays out in practice that defines my client work. That same interest in how legal institutions actually function has led me into public-interest work: since 2017 I've been active in philanthropic initiatives, and in 2020 I founded the Kutuzov Foundation, a nonprofit focused on research and public education around governance and civic development, where I serve as Trustee.
 

I'm a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association.