Moderator 

Director of CINFIS – Centre for International Fiscal Studies SA in Lugano. Giancarlo Cervino is Certified Tax Advisor and Certified Public Accountant in Luxembourg and Italy.

He is a journalist in Italy and Switzerland specialized in international tax planning.

He has twenty two years experience in consultancy for major banks and tax firms on anti-money laundering legislations, banking and tax planning.

CINFIS is a global advisor for enterprises. The economic globalization is the main challenge but also the source of bigger opportunities of development for multinational firms as well as for small and medium enterprises with international prospects.

CINFIS- Centre for International Fiscal Studies offers a wide range of consulting services including supervisions of company’s growth and development to its customer.

CINFIS – Centre for International Fiscal Studies SA
Switzerland
www.cinfis.com

Dr. Alexander Lins, LL.M. (Wealth Law – UFL) is a Trust-Lawyer and Partner of LMG Lighthouse Trust reg., Vaduz. He is actively teaching Company Law at University of Liechtenstein and is an author of various articles on Austrian and Liechtenstein Tax Law. He is founder and member of the scientific Board of the ‘Liechtenstein Journal’ that publishes articles on national and international Tax and Company Law. He is advisor of the Liechtenstein Government, recently in tax-matters related to the new (Double) Tax Treaty with Austria.

He was associate for one of the biggest tax-law- and auditing-companies in Vienna/Austria (TPA Horwath Wirtschaftstreuhand und Steuerberatung GmbH) for a number of years, when he joined one of the ‘big-three’ (Trust-)Law-companies in Liechtenstein, before he became the founding-member of LMG Lighthouse Trust.

As a licensed trustee of the Chamber of the Liechtenstein Trustees and member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), he specializes in national and international tax planning, structuring of holding and financial companies, intellectual property and asset-protection-tools (Foundations, Trusts etc).

LMG Lighthouse Trust reg.
Liechtenstein
www.lmg.li

Deputy Chairman of the Board, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (dCEO), ABLV Bank

Vadim Reinfeld has been working at the bank since 1997. He became the member of ABLV Bank Board in 2007 while additionally occupying the position of Head of the Customers Service Division. Vadim obtained his Master’s Degree in Law at the University of Latvia and another Master’s Degree under Executive MBA program at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Vadim Reinfeld is in charge of the Corporate and Private Clients Service Division, Financing Division, and Mortgage Loans Division.

Work moto: “Change is the basis of development, therefore above all in my colleagues I value a creative beginning and a positive attitude to work.”

Vadim loves spending his free time with friends discussing life. He also plays tennis and golf.

ABLV Bank, AS
Latvia
www.ablv.com

Johnson M. George is the General Manager of UAQ Free Trade Zone, UAE. Prior to joining UAQ Free Trade Zone, Johnson was responsible for the functions of Regulator, Compliance officer and In House legal Advisor of another Free Zone authority in UAE. Being a commercial lawyer by profession, he has also gained experience as a solicitor in leading law firms in India & Dubai where he dealt with wide scope of Legal matters mainly in the Corporate, Commercial, International & Intellectual property laws.

Johnson has vast experience in developing free trade zones in the region. Johnson has been involved in all facets of the development of applicable legislation of the Free Zone and involved in the various groundbreaking exercises leading to the successful operations of the Free Zone.

Johnson is involved in a broad spectrum of commercial, corporate and investment affairs particularly in the areas of estate planning, advisory on full spectrum of financial products including asset finance, project finance, and structured finance for the Free Zone.

Umm Al Quwain Free Trade Zone Authority
United Arab Emirates
www.uaqftz.com

Tom Holter is a vice president with Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP and is a registered representative of Baker Tilly Capital, where he manages the firm’s EB-5 service line. He is an experienced attorney and licensed investment banker whose previous work in large law firms focused on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic transactions. He has worked in China, Japan, and Vietnam as well as the United States.

Specific experience

•Conducted due diligence on proposed EB-5 transactions
•Provided strategic planning and oversight for EB-5 securities offerings
•Conducted EB-5 securities offerings in China
•Managed investor communication and Source of Funds analysis and reporting for investors closed through offerings conducted by Baker Tilly
•Oversaw Investor Capital Account administration
•Designed and compliance EB-5 project development/ reporting procedures
•Developed and implemented procedures for EB-5 New Commercial Entity administration
•Serves on the Banking and Compliance Committees of Invest In the USA , the main EB-5 industry organization
•Possesses a deep, global understanding of the EB-5 program, its regulatory environment, and all of its component pieces and effectively communicates that knowledge to clients, investors, and other service providers
•Experienced, responsive service provider sensitive to client’s business objectives and committed to realizing them
•American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Wisconsin Chapter member

Education

•University of Wisconsin Law School (Madison, Wisconsin)
Juris Doctor, Magna cum Laude
•University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
Bachelor of Science: Molecular Biology and Philosophy
Baker Tilly Capital
USA
www.bakertillycapital.com

Moderator of Panel Discussion: The Future of Citizenship-by-Investment.

Aleksandr Voronov, a native of Latvia, pursued a distinguished and successful career in business and acquired an MBA, but as a strong believer in personal freedom and Austrian economic theories, he was drawn by the warmth and welcome of tax-free jurisdictions in the Caribbean. He was appointed in 2010 as Business Development Manager at the expanding Russia and CIS Desk of NTL Trust and Immigration, the oldest trust company on the island of Nevis.

A keen and experienced traveler, Aleksandr now shuttles between the Caribbean, Western Europe and the CIS, visiting clients and partners. He has become widely known as the trusted go-to expert on business immigration and citizenship for high net worth individuals, their families and advisers from the Russia/CIS region, who are looking for a secure base outside their home countries. He is particularly comfortable advising clients on the best economic citizenship program for their needs. In an increasingly complex and globalized world, Aleksandr is an expert on your side.

NTL Trust Limited
St. Kitts and Nevis
www.ntltrust.com

Roustam Vakhitov is an expert in international taxation.

Before joining International Tax Associates B.V. Rustam worked for consulting companies in Russia, Ukraine, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. He has been addressing international taxation issues since 2002.

Specialization: international taxation, tax structuring and consulting with the use of international tax treaties, supporting transactions with the use of financial instruments, as well as structuring private investments (funds) and supporting international mergers and acquisitions, as well as Islamic finance transactions.

Roustam is the member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) since 2001 and of Dutch Chamber of Tax Advisers since 2011.

Roustam speaks Russian, English and Dutch and is an author of numerous publications on international taxation.

International Tax Associates
Tel NL: +31208943767
Tel UA: +380675499787
Tel RU: +79060598008
E-mail: vakhitov@intertaxlaw.nl
Address: P.J.Oudweg 4, 1314CH Almere, the Netherlands
www.intertaxlaw.nl

Anton is the Head of EY CIS Personal Tax services practice and has been working for EY Moscow for more than 16 years.

Anton is specializing in US and Russian personal income tax, social tax and immigration legislation, pension and labor law, tax optimization and planning, extensive international tax experience obtained by working on various projects in Moscow and London offices of EY.

Anton has been dealing with complicated issues of international taxation, such as international structuring of personal holding mechanisms (companies, trusts, funds), assets ownership structuring; experience in managing complicated US tax projects including dealing with various business structures (trusts, passive companies, controlled corporations and partnerships).

Anton graduated with honors from Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, diploma in finance; Certified Public Accountant in the US (CPA).

EY

Russia

www.ey.com/cis

Born on 20 April, 1962 in USSR.

In 1984 graduated from MKTI , MM “Mathematics machines” faculty. In 1999 graduated from A.S. Griboedov’s University of International Law and Economy, International Law department.

Had worked at the Ministry of Chemical and Oil-chemical industry for 8 years.

Since 1995 has been a director of Russian Legal Company “TRENSIS”. In 1999 incorporated “Goodwin Management Corporation Limited” (USA). Since 2002, general director of “Goodwin Management Corporation Limited” (Gibraltar).

Since 2009, Head of “Goodwin Management Corporation Limited” representative office in UAE. At present time acts as a Partner of “AMADLAW” UAE.

Amadlaw Management Consultancy LLC
UAE
www.amadlaw.com

Andrea is a holder of a Law Degree from Law School of Athens (LL.B), a holder of Masters Degree in Commercial Law (LL.M) from Cardiff Law School and is registered with the Cyprus Bar Association.

For the past six years, Andrea was highly involved in the Compliance, Anti Money Laundering, Regulatory, Legal and Risk sectors of numerous Cyprus Investment Firms and is a holder of the Advanced Certification from Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to Compliance Officers. Moreover, Andrea was also engaged in Compliance, AML Compliance and Regulatory matters of Alternative Investment Funds and Fund Managers.

Since September 2016, Andrea is a Manager of the Financial Services Department of ConnectedSky. The portfolio of the respective department includes leading investment firms in Cyprus and abroad as well as alternative investment funds and payment service providers.

Andrea is fluent in English and Greek language.

ConnectedSky Legal & Corporate Consultants Ltd
Cyprus
www.connectedsky.com

Director, International Tax Department

Anna graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (Tax and Taxation Institute) and is Ph.D. in Economics (from 2009). She is a certified public accountant (CPA) since 2007. Currently she is doing a STEP Diploma in International Trust Management.

Anna joined International Tax Structuring group of PwC in 2004. She specializes both in structuring services to corporate clients (design of holding, financial, operating, trading, management structures) and private tax structuring for high net worth individuals (HNWI). Anna lead a number of complex projects for the Russian HNWIs involving tax, legal and advisory issues. For example, Anna developed complex family office solution (in both the Czech Republic and Russia) for the Russian beneficiary from design to the implementation stage. Upon introduction of the CFC (controlled foreign companies) rules and other deoffshorization provisions to the Russian tax law in 2015 Anna lead a number of restructuring projects to adopt foreign private wealth ownership and management structures of the Russian individual clients to the new tax rules.

PwC
Tel. +7(495)2871189
Email: anna.modyanova@ru.pwc.com
Russia
www.pwc.ru

Konstantin Ziyatdinov is the head of International Projects in Prime Advice Consulting Group.

In 2005 he graduated with honors from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with a degree in World Economics, he also holds PhD in Economics.

Konstantin joined Prime Advice Consulting Group in 2004 and for more than 13 years has been actively developing international projects within the company. Konstantin is the mastermind of Prime Advice expansion into the promising market of Southeast Asia, and since 2012 he is heading the company’s Singapore office.

Konstantin specializes in private and corporate tax planning for clients mainly from Russia and CIS countries. Konstantin works a lot with private holding companies (creation of funds, trusts and private trust companies) and consults his clients on their overseas projects in various parts of the world.

He is the author of a number of publications in specialized and business media. Konstantin actively participates in leading industry events as an expert and speaker.

Prime Advice Consulting Group
Russia
www.hlbprime.com

Trade Desk Advisor

Ajman Free Zone has launched the Trade and Investment Desk to assist consultants and individual clients with companies’ formations, registration of register agent, advisory services, market intelligence and visa processing to facilitate setting up your business within AFZ.

As part of Ajman Free Zone strategic marketing plan, Trade Desk offers the possibility to establish professional partnerships with high profile, qualified consultants in the UAE and Russia/CIS Region. Being a representative agent of Ajman Free Zone, partners will benefit from VIP support and customer service for them clients along with other grate benefits based on the business generated.

Leyla has extensive experience in company formation, agent registration and advisory services. She is an advisor to a number of clients in the corporate matters, company law, management and administration.

Ajman Free Zone
United Arab Emirates
www.afz.gov.ae

Senior Associate

What she specialises in

Tatyana specialises in tax law, with an emphasis on international tax law. She provides advisory services to Russian and foreign clients in relation to various aspects of international taxation (e.g. in relation to taxing income generated by sources in the Russian Federation, implementing double tax treaties, and setting up permanent establishments). Tatyana’s expertise also includes advising on the implementation of so-called ‘deoffshorisation’ changes in tax law – for instance, rules for controlled foreign companies and concerning legal entities’ tax residence.

Her main achievements

Tatyana’s major projects include, among others:

•estimating the profit of over 40 controlled foreign companies (CFCs) of a major energy holding company, as well as evaluating whether the holding company had a right to a tax exemption for the profit of these CFCs;

•developing guidelines for calculating CFCs’ financial figures according to the rules established by the Russian Tax Code and comments on the list of documents required to confirm the calculation of CFCs’ profit and to apply exemptions;

•preparing road maps of business processes aimed at ensuring compliance with the CFC legislation and the rules used to determine the actual recipient (beneficial owner) of income;

•calculating the tax burden and assessing the tax risks of various options for restructuring the group of companies owned by a major Russian investment holding (the restructuring was aimed at transferring an asset, which was part of the holding structure, under the beneficiary’s direct ownership): devising the best possible restructuring scenario based on the rules for CFCs, and dealing with issues that related to transfer pricing, tax residence of legal entities, and the concept of an unjustified tax benefit, before drafting recommendations to mitigate tax risks;

•optimising a personal structure of ownership in relation to profitable assets for an individual (a Russian tax resident and resident for currency control purposes), taking into account the tax and other circumstances arising in more than five jurisdictions.

Tatyana was also involved in providing support in tax audits (including in courts) in relation to implementing the concept of an actual recipient (beneficial owner) of income, the provisions of double tax treaties, the OECD model convention and commentaries to it.

Her major clients

Gazprom Export, ONEXIM, Veles Capital, SDM Bank, Tele2.

What they say
“The legal opinions are always very well written and understandable even to people who don’t know anything about tax.” (Chambers Europe)

Pepeliaev Group
Russia
Email: t.pavlyukova@pgplaw.ru
www.pgplaw.ru

Partner of FTL Advisers Ltd.

Maria specializes in corporate law and M&A, joint-ventures, legal support for corporate reorganization and commercial contracts.

Before joining FTL Advisers Ltd., Maria was the head of the legal service of one of the largest woodworking holdings in Russia. She also worked as a corporate development director in the international multipurpose holding company where she dealt with corporate group structuring for the purpose of financing arrangement for geological research organization and gold mining in North African countries. She was a senior legal adviser in the international tax planning department of a large consultancy firm. She served as a head of legal for the group of companies, implementing projects for construction and repair works on energy facilities.

Maria graduated with honors from Omsk State University’s Law Faculty; she is a candidate of Juridical Sciences. Earned a LL.M Manchester’s degree with Honor, completed a course in London School of Economics for Commercial Law. She is fluent in English, has working proficiency in Spanish, conversational in French and Chinese.

FTL Advisers Ltd.
Russia
Member of Russian branch of International Fiscal Association (ROS-IFA)
www.ftl-advisers.ru

Head of Tax and TP Department of IBFS united (Russia)

Alexander graduated from the Tax Faculty of the State University of Management and University of Applied Sciences in Germany (Pforzheim).

Alexander is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation; IFA (Russia); AEB – Auditing Commission; Russian Association of International Law.

His work experience includes positions at tax authorities, Renaissance Capital bank, KPMG. He is Head of Tax and TP Department of IBFS united (Russia) since 2009.

Key aspects of work: international tax planning and transfer pricing.

Alexander was often recognized as the best lecturer and moderator of conferences concerning taxation. Alexander is frequently engaged as an expert by business mass-media (RBC, Business FM etc.)

IBFS united (Russia)
Member of Russian branch of International Fiscal Association (ROS-IFA)
www.ibfsunited.com