Victoria Arutyunyan

Partner, FBK Legal

Victoria has to her credit more than 18 years of experience working in well-known international legal firms, including the Big Four, as well as experience as a head of legal departments in a number of major Russian companies.

Qualification and expertise

Background

Victoria has impressive experience in supporting companies on corporate law matters, including support of complex / cross-border M&A transactions, creation of joint ventures, business restructuring, redomiciliation, reorganisation, as well as building corporate governance systems and development of long-term remuneration programmes for top managers. Victoria specialises in compliance, commercial and employment law and legal support of beneficiaries’ personal assets (family office).

Under Victoria’s leadership, for the first time in Russia, a survey on the operation of legal departments (the legal function benchmarking) was conducted. Moreover, Victoria has implemented more than 20 projects dealing with the assessment of efficiency and transformation of legal departments of major Russian and international companies.

Ratings

Pravo-300 2020 – Compliance (Group 2)
Kommersant 2020 - Compliance (Group 3)
Best Lawyers 2021 - Corporate Governance and Compliance practice, Corporate Law

Specialization

Industry specialization

Industrial production

Engineering, transport, pharmaceuticals

Medicine, banking and financial institutions

Metallurgy

IT/TMT/Technology

Retail/FMCG

Banking and financial institutions

Practice areas:

M&A transactions, joint ventures, business restructurings
Corporate governance
Compliance (anti-corruption, anti-monopoly, sanctions)
Commercial law and contract management
Employment law
Intellectual property and information protection, including personal data
Litigation disputes
Private client services
Evaluation of efficiency and transformation of legal departments, optimisation and automation of legal processes
Compliance function formation and building legal and compliance risk management systems

Education

2008

American Business and Legal Education Center Pericles LL.M. Program (American Business Law)

2006

Moscow University of Finance and Law

Languages

English, Spanish