Vladislav Zabrodin
Northern Capital House
Moika Embankment, 36
191186 St. Petersburg,
Russia
Tel: + 7 (812) 346-79-90
Fax: +7 (812) 346-79-91
E-mail: vzabrodin@cls.ru
Website: www.cls.ru

Vladislav Zabrodin has extensive experience advising business clients on corporate and commercial law, transactional law, mergers and acquisitions, tax law, cross-border transactions, alternative dispute resolution, securities law and other aspects of conducting business in the CIS, including client representation before federal and regional state authorities.

Prior to joining Capital Legal Services International, L.L.C., Mr. Zabrodin was a senior associate with McDermott, Will & Emery, L.L.C. and supervised their offices in St. Petersburg, Russia. From 1995 until 1998 he headed the CIS legal group of OTIS Elevator company, working from offices in Hartford, Connecticut, Paris, France, and Moscow, Russia, traveling to and providing legal services in and with respect to many republics of the former USSR, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. Mr. Zabrodin and Ms. Emory have worked closely together since 1992 on a variety of international projects in the US, Europe and Russia.

Mr. Zabrodin graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 1991, with a Bachelor degree, summa cum laude, and highest academic honors as the first in his class. He completed postgraduate study in the area of international law at St. Petersburg State University and served as visiting professor on Russian law at Turku University, Turku, Finland in 1993. Mr. Zabrodin studied Western and comparative legal systems at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, receiving his Master of Laws Degree from Northwestern in 1995. He has spoken frequently to businesses in the USA and Europe regarding Russian business and legal matters, has published articles on the subject in the International Lawyers Newsletter, and is a member of the International Bar Association. 

Mr. Zabrodin is a Russian national fluent in English.

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