Romanova Olga

Olga Romanova, Managing partner

The Head of practice «Corporate right» and «Court and Arbitration»

olga_romanova@ratum.ru

 

Practice areas

Corporate law. Tax and customs law. Arbitration. Land law. Investment projects in agriculture.

Education

1994 -graduated from the Samara State Academy of Art and Culture specializing in culturology.

1999- graduated from the Law Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia (Moscow) specializing in Law.

1999- graduated from the Regional Open Social Institute specializing in Law.

2010- obtained a Professional Certificate in Management (The Open University, Great Britain).

Professional development

22 June, 2005- «International commercial Arbitration: experience of Russia and Sweden» (Business School «Satus», Moscow).

October, 2003- «New points in the legal system and in court arbitral practice» (Legal Centre Dva M, Moscow).

February, 2006- «Corporative secretary» (the Russian Institute of Directors, Moscow).

Master-Classes  Legalstudies.ru

23-24 May, 2008 -«We build and develop a Legal firm» (Kiev).

6-12 May, 2009-«Strategy and tactics of development of a legal firm» (Amsterdam).

4-10 May, 2010- «Critical points of running a legal firm» (Berlin).

28 November- 2 December, 2010- «Personal efficiency and leadership in legal business» (Amsterdam).

Career

1999-2004- as a legal counsel headed a law department of one of the AgroHolding companies (Kursk) and the legal service department of EkoNiva Company (Moscow).

Since 2004 – Managing partner of RATUM Law Group.

Realizes consulting on the questions of corporative structuring of holdings, optimization of taxing, establishment and legal support of the company`s work with foreign investments, legal support of investment projects in agricultural business.

Membership. Member of the International Bar Association (IBA).

Member of the Corporative Secretaries’ Club of the Russian Institute of Directors.

Member of the All-Russia Organization of Small and Medium Business ‘Opora Rossii’ (Russia’s Support).

Arbitrates in the Court of Arbitration in the Kursk Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Publications. She co-authored Paragraph-by-Paragraph Commentary and Practice of Federal Law ‘On Turnover of Agricultural Lands’ published in Russian and English under the aegis of the RF State Duma in the project of the ‘German-Russian Agrarian and Political Dialogue’.

Author of articles published in specialized business magazines- issues on the questions of legal business development, problems and practice of use of corporate, fiscal, land law.

Participant and spokesperson at the forums on the issues of legal profession development and law business management.

Knows English.