Kira Egorova

Kira Egorova

Of Counsel
Kira Egorova

Chambers HNW

The oracle on all things private client.

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Kira Egorova is an Of Counsel in the Private Clients Practice at ALRUD Law Firm.

Kira advises private clients, families with dynastic wealth, family offices, professionals of the financial industry, fund managers, private foundations and others. Kira has extensive experience in advising high-net-worth Russian individuals on development of ownership and succession structures for diversified private and business assets, located in different jurisdictions. She also counsels clients in connection with a significant number of projects involving purchase of luxury items and other property. Kira has an extensive expertise in tax compliance, personal taxation and currency control issues with cross border ties.

Kira graduated from Moscow State University. In 2003, she joined ALRUD and since that time has played the leading role in the establishment and development of its Private Clients Practice. Today, ALRUD’s Private Clients Practice is positioned in the higher tiers of international legal ratings and is extremely well regarded in the service professional market for UHNW clients.

Kira is a regular contributor to international publications, including The Private Wealth & Private Client Review, The Art Collecting Legal Handbook, International Family Offices Journal, Forbes Russia as well as publications in the STEP magazine. Also, she is a frequent speaker at international and domestic events, on different issues within her areas of Private Clients Practice.

Kira is a member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the International Bar Association (the IBA).

Includes advising and representing:

In the frame of our new service “Health-Check”

our team elaborated a complex strategy of wealth management that considered the clients’ family and business situation. The client and his spouse jointly owned a wide network of business assets in Russia, as well as significant personal property. As a result, the client received a profile with a detailed analysis of the documents confirming property title, description of potential risks, and instruments of their mitigation, in the course of family and estate planning.

A client, a US citizen, and his wife, a Russian citizen

in preparation a joint will of the spouses for in relation to their Russian real estate, for the purposes of a complex family estate planning strategy implementation.

A famous foreign football player of a Russian football club

on tax aspects related to the establishment of a trust and reserving for the client of a number of control and management powers over the structure as part of estate planning. Our team developed several strategies that included the organization and preparation of proper documentation for the trust and family structure planning.

The spouse of a UHNW, a citizen of the Russian Federation, the US and the UK, the owner of a media company in the US

in a complex divorce process and a matrimonial property division (including the division of obligations under loan contracts). The divorce proceedings took place simultaneously in Russia and the United Kingdom.

One of the largest charity organizations

on the requirements of Russian anti-money laundering legislation applicable to charities, including the PEP (politically exposed persons’) identification, possible sanctions risks, and verification of the auditor's findings regarding the organization's comprehensive compliance system.

A family office of a wealthy private client

in preparation a comprehensive recommendation on the choice of structure type and jurisdiction for financial investment assets, taking into account tax and corporate aspects, as well as for an asset protection purpose.

A foreign national, the father of a child born by a surrogate mother in Russia and placed in an orphanage

the team helped the client to establish his paternity in relation to the child in court, obtain a birth certificate with a blank in the section 'mother' (which is not directly stipulated by the Russian law), stop pre-investigation checks, and to release the child from the institution for children, where it had been deprived of parental care.

A wealthy client, the owner of Russian and foreign assets

in preparation a comprehensive 'compliance file'. The profile included a description of the origin of the client's capital, as well as an archive of information and documents that made it possible to clearly track the origin and diversification of the client's wealth.

The owner of a large business in IT and telecommunications

in preparation a strategy for declaring foreign banking assets, after a change of tax residency. This involved several countries, and a comprehensive plan to create a new ownership structure of the investment portfolio.

A client on risks of recognizing the founder/ protector/ beneficiaries

of a trust as people with significant control under the Controlled Foreign Corporation rules, as well as on mitigating the risk of recognition of the trust as a Controlled Foreign Corporation.

ALRUD team prepares Russian chapter for Thomson Reuters Practical Law Private Client Global Guide
Experts from the Private Clients and Tax practices prepared the Russian chapter for the Thomson Reuters Practical Law Private Client Global Guide. This overview covers the current status of key legal issues that are of concern to high-net-worth individuals: individual tax reporting; currency control issues; family and inheritance law; the ownership and inheritance of Russian and foreign real estate; trusts and other estate planning instruments; and the creation and financial support of charitable organizations. The overview was compiled by Senior Partner Maxim Alekseyev, Counsel Kira Egorova, Counsel Elena Novikova, Consultant Elena Skoptsova, and Associates Maria Petrova and Sofia Imamutdinova. The full publication is available here
26 December 2021
ALRUD confirms leading positions in the Chambers HNW 2021
On July 22, 2021, international ranking agency Chambers & Partners published the results of Chambers High Net Worth research. The rating evaluates law firms and private lawyers in the Private Clients area. ALRUD’s Private Clients practice has been at the top of the rating for six years in a row and is again recommended in Band 1. Individual nominations in High Net Worth: Maxim Alekseev, Senior Partner and Head of the Private Clients Practice, remains in Band 1 as «brilliant lawyer». Clients note: «He always tries to find a practical solution to clients' problems». Kira Egorova, Private Clients Practice Counsel, has strengthened her position and is rated in Band 1. Kira is widely admired as «one of the best lawyers in Russia for private clients». «Everybody knows Kira in Russia». Ekaterina Vasina, Senior Consultant, Private Clients Practice - Associate to watch. Market Commentators and clients highlight Ekaterina as «a very strong lawyer», «very proactive and she has a good insight into what clients need». For the first time, Chambers has added the Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth rating, in which ALRUD also confidently took a leading position (recommended in Band 1). Individual nominations in Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth: Maxim Alekseev, Senior Partner and Head of the Private Clients Practice, ranks in Band 1. Clients note «His experience allows him to decide the most complicated issues of his clients and obtain the best results». Ekaterina Vasina, Senior Consultant, Private Clients Practice - Associate to watch. According to the rating, Ekaterina 'shows deep knowledge of family law and effectively works with the clients and lawyers involved in trans-border cases.' Congratulations to the ALRUD Private Clients practice team! Chambers & Partners is one of the most respected and oldest international legal publications. The publication's specialists annually conduct market research around the world, on the basis of which they make a rating of the best practicing lawyers and law firms.
22 July 2021
Best Lawyers, 2022 calls Kira Egorova the Lawyer of the Year 2022, in the Trusts and Property Planning ranking.
Chambers HNW, 2021 recommends Kira Egorova for Private Clients (Chambers High Net Worth Guide).
The Legal 500, 2021 recommends Kira Egorova for Private Clients.
Chambers HNW, 2020 recommends Kira Egorova for Private Clients (Chambers High Net Worth Guide).
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