Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Senior legal, regulatory and compliance counsel with 13+ years of legal experience, including 7+ years across international technology, fintech, crypto / Web3, payments, marketplaces and consumer-facing platform businesses. I help founders and leadership teams turn legal and regulatory complexity into execution: launching regulated products, managing compliance and enforcement risk, protecting corporate and IP value, structuring commercial relationships, handling disputes and building legal operating models that scale. I have worked across Revolut, Bolt, Yango and Lido Finance, covering regulated products, payments, crypto / Web3, mobility, marketplaces, white-label products, franchise / affiliate models, AI product support and cross-border expansion across Europe, MENA, LATAM, CIS and Africa. My strongest fit is high-growth, high-risk and under-structured environments where Legal needs to create order, speed and measurable business value. I am high-ownership, high-agency and execution-oriented, with a record of turning ambiguous legal issues into clear decisions, risk controls, operating structures and completed outcomes. Core strengths: • legal strategy, governance and risk management; • legal and compliance leadership; • corporate structuring and international legal operations; • regulated product launches and market expansion; • fintech, payments and Web3 legal strategy; • compliance, KYB / KYC, sanctions / AML and regulatory engagement; • IP, data protection, AI and product risk; • commercial contracts and strategic partnerships; • litigation, competition / antitrust matters and external counsel management; • legal operations, playbooks, risk scorecards and scalable workflows. I am particularly interested in roles where Legal sits close to leadership and the business — helping teams move faster, make better decisions, manage risk intelligently and avoid expensive surprises.
Lido Finance is a leading liquid staking protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem. Advised on legal, regulatory, compliance, corporate, product and operational matters across staking, protocol-related activities, decentralisation strategy, DAO-adjacent governance and crypto / Web3 regulatory risk. • Led corporate structuring project, creating a leaner, more cost-efficient structure with clearer governance, over USD 100k in annual savings and mitigated potential multi-million-dollar tax exposure. • Restored a disrupted high-risk fiat payment flow by running an RFP, aligning legal / compliance / operational requirements and negotiating a replacement agreement that saved more than USD 200k per annum. • Helped recover approximately USD 500k and avoid approximately USD 250k per annum in potential losses through legal and compliance issue-spotting and execution. • Managed compliance workstreams, including KYB / KYC, counterparty risk review, sanctions / AML considerations, internal policies, risk controls and competent-authority communications. • Managed account-opening and compliance-request workstreams with financial institutions and VASPs in a high-risk crypto environment, supporting payment-rail continuity. • Advised on crypto / Web3 regulatory strategy across MiCA / CASP readiness, U.S. securities-law considerations, staking, decentralisation, DAO-adjacent governance and token-related structuring risk. • Supported an AI agent product from 0 to MVP, translating privacy, IP, platform-terms, security and regulatory-perimeter risks into practical launch requirements. • Led data privacy, IP, OSS, contributor and service-provider workstreams, including DPAs, LIAs, data-flow analysis, IP ownership and OSS licensing. • Supported strategic partner, infrastructure provider, vault curator and institutional client agreements, including commercial terms, liability and risk allocation. • Delivered internal trainings on sanctions / AML; rated the #1 speaker.
Yango is an international technology platform operating across mobility, payments, advertising, marketplace and white-label products. Led legal support across LATAM, MENA, CIS, Africa and the EU, covering mobility, payments, advertising, marketplace, white-label and franchise / affiliate models. • Led legal delivery for 10 markets, acting as legal partner to product, operations, finance, GR and commercial leadership teams. • Drove market expansion, licensing and authorisation workstreams, including regulatory analysis, corporate structuring, entity setup / closure support, government relations, regulatory engagements and external counsel management. • Successfully resolved a Peru unfair-advertising matter involving competitor-comparison advertising in ride-hailing and potential multi-million-dollar USD turnover-based fine exposure; coordinated local counsel and drove practical remediation. • Supported gambling-related approvals in Africa and LATAM, including local regulatory analysis, external counsel coordination, regulator-facing documentation and implementation support. • Advised on investment, strategic transaction and product matters, including partner structures, market-entry models, regulated products, payments, marketplace / white-label structures, commercial risk allocation, customer / partner T&Cs and transaction documentation. • Led labour-law claims and disputes across international platform operations, including driver, courier, promoter and contractor matters; coordinated local counsel and remediation / risk-mitigation steps. • Built scalable legal templates, workflows and a self-service legal hub covering corporate structure, KYC, product positioning, marketing / promotions, country-specific requirements and recurring product / operations questions.
Bolt is a leading European mobility platform offering ride-hailing, e-scooters, food and grocery delivery. Led legal delivery for multiple European markets across Bolt’s mobility, delivery and e-scooter businesses, acting as primary legal partner for assigned markets and working closely with product, operations, commercial and policy teams. • Defended Bolt in a Bolt Food antitrust matter in Azerbaijan involving predatory-pricing allegations, active market investment and alleged pricing influence over restaurants, with potential multi-million-dollar USD turnover-based fine exposure. • Advised on product launches, market operations, regulatory readiness, market expansion, licensing, tenders and antitrust matters across multiple European markets. • Advised on payments and financial-regulatory matters, including Bolt Balance, payment flows, local regulatory requirements and implementation steps. • Drafted and negotiated commercial agreements, customer T&Cs, partner terms, vendor agreements and operational policies. • Supported corporate and Partner Markets / franchise structures, including corporate structuring support, commercial model design, contractual risk allocation, local regulatory analysis and implementation. • Advised on employment / contractor reclassification risks for platform and gig-economy models, covering drivers, couriers, local partner structures, labour-law claims, administrative proceedings and implementation steps. • Coordinated external counsel and local implementation workstreams across assigned markets.
Revolut is a leading global challenger bank / fintech platform offering banking, payments, cards, crypto and other financial products. Advised Revolut during a period of rapid international expansion and regulated product development, working closely with product, operations, compliance, marketing and commercial teams across multiple markets. • Supported launch and operationalisation of Revolut Bank UAB in Lithuania, one of the first neobank uses of Lithuania’s specialised banking licence model, translating regulatory requirements into user terms, customer journeys, product flows, app UX, disclosures and local compliance implementation. • Advised on launch and operation of Revolut Crypto, including product structure, customer journeys, user terms, regulatory analysis and legal support for the strategic partnership with Binance. • Supported proposed Russia market-entry and strategic partnership work, including legal / regulatory analysis and structuring support for a potential joint venture with Qiwi Bank. • Drafted and negotiated commercial, SaaS, licensing, integration, outsourcing, vendor and strategic partnership agreements in a regulated financial services environment, including payment-related dependencies and contractual risk allocation. • Reviewed data protection and security-sensitive contracts, including DPAs, GDPR terms, confidentiality, data processing, information-security obligations, audit rights, liability and incident-related provisions. • Led legal support for the Revolut Affiliate Program, including partner documentation, rewards mechanics, commercial risk allocation and scalable approval processes. • Developed contract playbooks, risk scorecards and automated workflows for NDAs, Rewards, Affiliates and Procurement, reducing template-based legal review from 1–3 business days to approximately 5–10 minutes.
Russian boutique law firm ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Advised clients on commercial, corporate, regulatory and expansion matters; led contract negotiations; represented clients before courts and authorities.