Cross-border disputes, international arbitration, and privacy & AI regulation. Admitted in Florida, New York and the District of Columbia. Practicing in English, Russian and Ukrainian.
Florida, New York and the District of Columbia, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. One lawyer who can appear where the parties, the assets and the court are not in the same place.
English, Russian and Ukrainian, each at working level. Documents, witnesses and clients are heard in the original, not through a translator's summary.
Trained in civil law in Odesa and Bern, and in common law in Miami. Experience with how a European judgment, a tribunal award and a U.S. court actually fit together.
A cross-border lawyer is made by the places she has worked, not the places she has visited. Each of these left a specific skill.
Each line of the practice starts with a question someone actually asked. The answers below are general information, not legal advice for a particular matter.
Often yes, but not automatically. Florida recognizes foreign money judgments under its own statute, and the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention is now in force for a growing list of states. The questions that decide the outcome are jurisdiction, notice and public policy, and they should be answered before the first filing, not after.
Cross-border disputesSovereign immunity is the first wall, and in the United States the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act decides where the doors are. Recent Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit decisions have moved those doors. A tribunal award, a treaty and the right exception can turn an unpayable claim into an enforceable one.
International arbitrationUsually several regimes at once: GDPR, the EU AI Act with its revised timetable, and a patchwork of U.S. state privacy laws. Years inside the largest technology platforms taught one rule: map the data flows first, then the law. The map is what regulators ask for.
Privacy & AI regulationThree questions. The answer shows how many legal systems your situation touches and which question to settle first.
Pick an answer in each row.
General orientation only, not legal advice. The specifics of a matter can change everything.
Short, sourced notes on decisions and rules that change how a cross-border matter is run. Every note links to the primary text.
Everything on this page can be checked against a bar directory, a university or a published text. That is deliberate: in cross-border work, verifiability is the first service.
Comments in English, Russian or Ukrainian, usually within the same business day. Short and long biographies and a print-quality photograph are available on request.
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