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Gaiane Shtoian

Counsel, attorney, mediator — Family Law and Private Wealth

Gaiane specialises in precluding corporate, family, sanctions and inheritance risks in the event of divorce or retirement of a business owner, legal support for relocation outside the Russian Federation and creation of international structures for protection, ownership and management of private capital and business assets. 

Gaiane's experience includes drafting prenuptial agreements, agreements on division of marital property, alimony agreements, wills, inheritance agreements, and documentation of personal and inheritance funds.

Gaiane is a professional mediator.

She resolves complex mediated and litigated disputes in the field of cross-border and national family and inheritance law. She provides legal support in enforcement of foreign court judgments in Russia.

She has unique experience in handling cases of international child abduction and illegal retention under the rules of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction. On the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction”. He is founder of the project “Children Have the Right to be in the Right”, where lawyers help to return children illegally taken across the border by one of the parents. 

Gaiane collaborates with the country's leading universities and is a trainer on advanced training courses organised for lawyers by the Federal Chamber of Advocates.

She's an expert and certified trainer for representatives of legal professions of the European Human Rights Programme HELP.

Gaiane collaborates with the leading universities of the country and is a trainer of the courses on advanced training of lawyers organized by the Federal Chamber of Lawyers.

Member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL).

Personally recommended by Kommersant and Pravo-300 legal ratings.