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Gaiane Shtoian

Counsel, attorney, mediator — Family Law and Private Wealth
gaiane.shtoian@bgplaw.com
Gaiane focuses her practice on domestic and international family and inheritance law cases. She develops and participates in implementation of succession planning strategies, as well as protection, ownership and management mechanisms for private capital and business assets, including through personal foundations. Gaiane also offers legal assistance in having foreign court judgements enforced in Russia. She has unique experience in cases involving international abduction of children by a parent and right of access under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Gaiane is an expert in drafting prenuptial, property division, child support, inheritance and parental rights agreements. She is also a professional mediator.
Past Experience
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Prior to joining BGP Litigation, Gaiane ran her own private law practice
Legislative Activities and Membership in Associations
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  • Member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL)
  • Certified trainer for legal professionals under the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP)
  • Participant in a roundtable discussion on draft law No. 534677-8 to determine a child's best and most important interests
Education
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Degree in Law from Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Languages
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Russian, English, Armenian

Gaiane advised:

a wealthy Russian businessman

on structuring ownership of his business and personal assets through a personal foundation, including organising business management and creating a mechanism for handing down the business to future generations

a department head at an oil and gas company

in a dispute over cancellation of notarised child support agreements, exercise of parental rights, determination of fixed monetary child support, and setting out an agreed procedure for communication between the child and the parent, bearing in mind that they live in different regions

a top manager of a multinational pharmaceutical company

and Canadian citizen in a cross-border custody dispute involving illegal transfer of children from Canada to Russia by their father, without the mother's consent, and a subsequent ban on their departure from Russia

the owner of a software development company

and several businesses in China in a court of appeal in a custody and child support dispute. The outcome was a settlement agreement to share custody of the children equally and waive child support claims

a member of the management board of Russia's biggest producer of industrial explosives

used in mining, on development and implementation of a family and succession planning strategy for assets in Russia, the UAE and Switzerland, in consideration of tax and sanctions risks

a branch manager of a major transport and logistics company

in court disputes over division of marital property worth around RUB 2 bln, as well as child custody and child support

a former managing director of Russia's biggest power supply company

in a dispute over custody of minor children, with the aim of having the children, who were being held illegally in a foreign country, returned to Russia

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