Leading counsel on digital currencies, stablecoins and blockchain project structuring
Over twenty years of legal practice, with the last decade focused on digital assets. Member of the State Duma Expert Council on cryptocurrency regulation, contributor to amendments to sector legislation, and researcher under a Russian Science Foundation grant on digital settlement instruments.
The Digital Currencies and Digital Rights Act is being phased in. Key dates for businesses and asset holders:
Structuring foreign-trade settlements in stablecoins: a full tax and accounting framework for importers and exporters, contractual packaging, and banking-compliance support.
DetailsBringing existing exchange services into compliance with the Digital Currencies and Digital Rights Act, and supporting new entrants joining the Bank of Russia operators’ register.
DetailsLegal structures for DeFi, NFT and Web3 projects: foreign entities and licences, non-standard tokenisations via hybrid DFAs on open networks, entry into experimental legal regimes, and legal aspects of deepfakes.
DetailsDisputes with Russia’s Federal Tax Service, which now administers the industry: taxation of mined digital currency, defence in audits and assessments — where twenty years of tax-dispute practice is decisive.
DetailsComplex mandates are delivered by the Parallax consulting team — digital-asset counsel, tax advisers and litigation lawyers.
Telegram channel on the legal regulation of digital currencies — briefings on draft laws, case law and regulator positions, first-hand.
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