Prior to joining Ardea, Dmitry was a Partner in Duvernoix Legal, a well-regarded Russian law firm (and an associate office of SNR Denton), prior to which he worked for four years as General Counsel with one of the largest Russian chemical businesses. Dmitry has authored numerous publications on competition law, intellectual property law and other areas of legal practice.

The Legal500 EMEA directory commended Dmitry as a recommended lawyer in corporate law in its 2009 and 2010 editions.

E-mail: ivanov@ardea-ib.com; Phone: +7 952 227 35 35

Olga Kalashnikova. Olga has legal experience specializing in commercial, tax and investment law. Since graduating from Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 1998, Olga has worked in Russian and international law firms (Castren & Snellman, Hedman Osborne Clarke and Legal Business Collegium) in St. Petersburg and as in-house counsel in large industrial corporations and holding companies.

E-mail: okalashnikova@ardea-ib.com; Phone: +7 921 744 44 01

Alexey Paramonov. Prior to setting up Ardea, Alexey worked in banks (including Sumitomo Bank Ltd (London) and Citibank (Moscow)), for the international law firm Salans, andfor the private equity investment companies: Salford (London), Norum Oy (St. Petersburg), and Industrial Investors (Moscow). Immediately prior to setting up Ardea Alexey worked as an investment and international finance advisor to a large Russian industrial and private equity investment group. Alexey graduated from the Oriental and Law Faculties of St. Petersburg State University, and has an MBA degree from London Business School as well as an LLM degree from Queen Mary University of London.

Tatiana Sokolova. Tatiana has more than 17 years experience in the sphere of corporate, commercial, tax and customs law, legislation on currency regulation and currency control, banking and financial law, investment legislation, labour law and legislation on real estate as well as in the sphere of economic analysis and business planning. Tatiana graduated from the Faculty of Accounting and Economic Analysis of St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, and then from the Buckinghamshire College of Brunel University (BA degree in Business Studies), before graduating and obtaining an LLM degree from the Law Faculty of St.Petersburg State University. Prior to joining Ardea, Tatiana spent ten years or so working in the international law firms Castren&Snellman International Oy (Finland) and Beiten Burkhardt (Germany). She was also, for more than three years, the chief specialist and than deputy head of the department of long-term loans granted under loan programs of the EBRD and the IBRR in the Industry-Construction Bank Plc (St.Petersburg. Tatiana has authored publications relating to taxation issues, to innovations in currency control legislation, to reviews of investment legislation of those constituent areas of the Russian Federation which form part of the North-West Federal Region, and to reviews of legislation relating to special economic zones.

E-mail: tsokolova@ardea-ib.com; Phone: +7 921 449 80 40

Vadim Timoshevsky. His main specialization is commercial and corporate law, litigation and business dispute settlement, legal support of investment projects. He has considerable work experience as in-house lawyer (acting as deputy head of the legal department of IST Group of Companies), and in legal consulting (as head of department of the Legal Business College and head of Adviser, a Russian law firm) for more than 20 years.

E-mail: timoshevskiy@ardea-ib.com; Phone: +7 921 969 91 01;

Olga Uriupinskaya. Olga has more than 15-years experience in servicing major international and domestic clients of different industries and economic sectors. Prior to joining Ardea, Olga worked as Of Counsel in international law firm Dentons (formerly Salans) specializing in Real Estate Law, Construction Law and Corporate Law. In 2015-2016 Olga was a Co-chairman of the Real Estate and Construction Committee of the St. Petersburg International Business Association.

She is an author of numerous publications on complex matters of Real Estate and Construction Law.

Her credentials are recognized by most reputable resources:

• “One of the best lawyers in Construction Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law in Russia” by Best Lawyers ®, 2016
• “One of the best lawyers in Construction Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law in Russia” by Best Lawyers ®, 2015
• “One of the best lawyers in Real Estate in Russia” by Best Lawyers ®, 2014