Year End Closing 2022

Anastasia joined the company in 2021. She supervises import and certification projects.

Anastasia has extensive experience in establishing business relationships with international partners from Europe and Asia.

Anastasia studied in Germany (Hochschule Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg) and graduated from the Russian Foreign Trade Academy with a degree in Foreign Trade Management. She has a master’s degree in Logistics and speaks Russian, English and German.

Denis joined SCHNEIDER GROUP in 2018. He has extensive experience in legal support for Russian and international companies in labour, migration and sports law, personal data protection legislation, and trade secrets law. 

Companies from IT, retail, sport (including cybersport), transport, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, mining, construction, and renewable energy industries rely on Denis’s professional expertise. He has more than 11 years of experience. 
Denis specialises in employment agreements and internal labour-related documents development, legal support for corporate clients in negotiations with their employees, pre-court proceedings, and individual court disputes. 

Denis graduated with a degree in Law from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Evgeniya joined SCHNEIDER GROUP in 2014 as associate. During her years in the company, she provided legal advice to SCHNEIDER GROUP’s clients on corporate and commercial law, and IP rights protection. In 2019, Evgeniya was promoted to head of commercial law practice. She has over 10 years of professional experience.  

Evgeniya specialises in advising international companies on various aspects of civil law, including commercial law, and protection of intellectual property rights, anti-monopoly law, analysis of localisation criteria, and getting “Made in Russia” certification. 
Companies from IT, retail, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, pharmaceutical, mining, construction, and renewable energy industries rely on Evgeniya professional expertise.
 
Evgeniya graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in Law, and completed an internship at an international law firm in Nuremberg, Germany. 
Evgeniya speaks English, German and Russian.

Ljubomir joined the company as IT director in 2016. He is responsible for projects on ERP and WMS implementation in Russian divisions of global enterprises, integration of local IT solutions with ERP systems in the head offices, automation of international accounting and financial reporting, electronic document interchange and digital marking of consumer goods. 

Ljubomir's most notable projects in SCHNEIDER GROUP include:

• integration of local accounting systems in several Russian subsidiaries with the head office’s ERP system in Germany for one of the leading international mining companies, including automatic transfer of entries from 1C to SAP; 

• implementation of ERP system for the Russian manufacturing facilities for WABCO, a U.S.-based provider of electronic braking, stability, suspension, and transmission automation systems for heavy-duty commercial vehicles;

• implementation of an integrated solution for digital marking of goods exported to Russia for a German premium fashion brand.

Prior to joining SCHNEIDER GROUP, Ljubomir gained extensive professional experience in consulting industry working for Accenture. He also worked for Partnerships Germany, a public-private partnership based in Germany.

Ljubomir has more than 25 years of professional experience and speaks 4 languages: Russian, English, German and Bulgarian.

Olga joined the company in 2013 and got promoted to the head of accounting group in 2015. Since 2017 Olga is also responsible for SCHNEIDER GROUP import services.

One of Olga’s first projects at SCHNEIDER GROUP was accounting and management reporting for a world-famous toy manufacturer. She successfully guided the customer through multiple mandatory audits and tax checks and prepared the client’s accounting for migration from 1C to SAP.

Olga's accounting team specialises on projects of accounting, tax and management reporting set up, restoration and adaptation for companies from a wide range of industries: from professional services to manufacturing and construction.

In 2017, Olga took over operational management of SCHNEIDER GROUP import department, providing export, import and customs clearance services. She has strengthened greatly the SCHNEIDER GROUP's team of foreign trade consultants and assists the company's customers in solving complex tax and customs law issues, helping them to achieve better financial results. 
Olga often serves as a financial advisor to the management of SCHNEIDER GROUP's clients.

She has more than 15 years of professional experience in finance, including 8 years in financial consulting.

Olga has a university degree in Accounting, Analysis and Audit. She is currently pursuing an MBA in Business Management at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (IBS Moscow).
Olga speaks Russian and English.

Yadviga joined SCHNEIDER GROUP in 2020. She is responsible for litigation services.  

Yadviga is an advocate, member of the Moscow City Bar since 2013. In 1994-2005, she worked as an in-house lawyer in major Russian banks and oil and gas companies. Since 2005, she worked in Moscow offices of US and European law firms, specialising in representing client’s interests in Russian arbitrazh and regular courts. She has represented clients in international and Russian arbitration courts in the cases for acceptance and enfrorcement of foreign court decisions.  

Yadviga also represented clients in corporate disputes, for example, in the legal dispute between Norwegian telecommunication services provider Telenor and Russian Vympelcom, as well as in disputes arising from agreements on construction, goods supply (including international supplies) and logistics, in tax disputes, bankruptcy cases, labour disputes, banking services for private clients, etc. 
 
She also participated in legal disputes in international regular and arbitration courts in the USA and Great Britain, has prepared expert opinions on Russian Law for the High Court of England and Wales, US district courts and arbitration courts in commercial disputes, including the cases “Boris Berezovsky vs. Roman Abramovich” and “VTB Capital plc vs. Nutritek International Corp”. 

She has in-depth knowledge in corporate law, and M&A, and took part in projects on due diligence of Russian oil and gas exploration and oil-processing companies, and telecommunication services providers, where she was responsible for assessment of intellectual property rights, licensing and court proceedings. Yadviga advised clients on the Russian commercial law, including corporate restructuring, and control change, corporate approval of deals, mandatory share buyback, main shareholders’ and management responsibility. 

Yadviga graduated with degrees in Law and Foreign Languages and Literature (English) from Lomonosov Moscow State University, she continued her studies there, pursuing a postgraduate degree in Civil and Private International Law at the Faculty of Law. She has a PhD in Independent Documentary Obligations, and a PhD in Law.

Yadviga is recognised by the international Legal 500 and “Best Lawyers in Russia” rankings, and listed in the Russian Pravo.ru 300 rating.