Ilya Smirnov is a partner in the transactions practice, focused on international trade and IT law.
For over eight years he has handled cross-border deals with counterparties from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, the UAE and the CIS: from structuring the contract and setting up a safe payment route to resolving incidents with customs and currency control. For technology companies he provides legal support across the full product life cycle — from the creation of intellectual property rights to their commercialisation and protection.
- Cross-border trade support: import and export contracts
- Customs and currency regulation
- Structuring international operations and cross-border settlements
- Sanctions compliance
- Legal support for tender and subsidy projects
- Pre-trial dispute resolution, dealing with counterparties and state authorities
- IP asset transactions: licensing, assignment of exclusive rights, option structures
- IT contracts: software development and modification, distribution, EULA, open-source licences (MIT, GPL)
- Protection of intellectual property, registration of software and trademarks (Rospatent, Ministry of Digital Development)
- Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry of Economic Development (bachelor’s and master’s degrees — faculty of international law, international economic law)
Languages
- Russian
- English
- Loading…