Dina Avakyan provides advice on various aspects of tax law, customs and currency regulation, as well as compliance issues.
Dina Avakyan advises on various aspects of Russian tax law and international tax planning and structuring, including tax issues of corporate reorganizations and mergers/acquisitions, issues connected with taxation of inbound/outbound investments. She also advises private clients on a wide range of issues related to tax, estate and family planning and asset management and protection, including creation of foreign trusts, foundations and other foreign personal structures.
Dina advises on currency and customs and compliance matters (compliance) and has participated in the development and implementation of employee incentive programs.
Advised one of the leading Russian state-owned and vertically integrated companies on divesture of its medical business, including the transition to the target holding and financing structure and development of the tax-efficient operating model under the target structure.
Worked as a tax counsel to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company on the Russian aspects of the post-acquisition integration following the global merger with Celgene.
Post-acquisition integration of Russian entities of the healthcare groups following their global merger and integration of their headquarters.
Acted as a legal and tax counsel to the structuring of supplies of an expensive gene therapy medication for minor patients into Russia.
Acted as tax counsel to Abbott Laboratories on its acquisition of Veropharm, a leading Russian pharmaceutical manufacturer, and its various subsidiaries including in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, including tax due diligence and tax advice on transactional documents.
Advised a major Russian manufacturer and distributor of kitchen utensils on the health check of the client's existing business model and developing a new holding structure.
Advised a US pharmaceutical company on Russian tax aspects of the contractual arrangements for the conduct of clinical studies in Russia.
Advised a global pharmaceutical company on structuring the agreements with the distributors from tax, anti-monopoly, corporate and life science laws.
Advised a leading international manufacturer of IT and communication equipment with regard to Russian part of the global post-acquisition integration. Tax structuring of an integration between Russian companies as a part of a global integration, work on transactional documents.
Advised a large international supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases on tax, corporate and other matters with regard to its reorganization in Russia, advice on structuring of the reorganization, work on transactional documents, advice on post-acquisition integration of legal entities in Russia.
Education
University of Oxford, Master of Science in Taxation with Honours, 2020
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Ph.D. in Law, 2018
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), LL.M. in International Financial Law, 2013
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Bachelor of Law, 2011
