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OXANA ADLER

Director. International Counsel.

Born 1973 in Russia, Ms. Adler earned her LLB degree cum laude in international private law from the elite Moscow State University of International Relations in 1995. In 1998, she graduated from the London School of Economics having earned her cum laude LL.M in international banking and finance law.

Ms. Adler began her international law career in 1995 as in-house counsel for Rossiysky Kredit Bank, Moscow's major international commercial bank at the time.

From 1996 to 1997, Ms. Adler served as in-house counsel for ATON Investment Bank, major Russian and international investment house. There Ms. Adler specialized in complex international agreements and alternative dispute resolutions.

From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Adler served as Counsel for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she oversaw World Bank's client-countries, including Russian Federation, Ukraine, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Cyprus. Ms. Adler's responsibilities as World Bank's counsel, included

 negotiating, structuring and closing sovereign loans to the client countries in Europe and Central Asia, totaling billions of USD;

bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) state-guaranteed lending to financial and industrial concerns in the power and energy sector; pension fund management; capital markets;

bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) interacting with cabinet level government officials of member states;

bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF); European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Financial Action Task Force (FAFT) and the US Department of the Treasury in developing sovereign lending policies, structural adjustment reform programmes, analyzing and writing of legal memoranda on the issue of corruption and money-laundering activities in government and banking and industrial-financial sector of member-states; research into vulnerability to money laundering in various major financial centres and offshore jurisdictions, including Cyprus, Netherlands Antilles, Switzerland, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and others.

From 2001 to 2002, Ms. Adler served as Investment Counsel with WL Ross & Co., New York. Her responsibilities included analysis of capital markets, legal framework and compliance, and research into investment opportunities in Eastern Europe.

PROFESSIONAL LAW PRACTICE FOCUS

Ms. Adler has been a member of the Russian Bar since 1995 and is qualified as an international lawyer for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. She appeared as consultant and expert in:

bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Russian-American legal issues
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Russian-Anglo-American comparative law
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) International banking law and compliance
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Russian criminal law
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Analysis of Russian laws, political and economic development and judicial reform
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Transnational financial crimes and money laundering issues

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Ms. Adler is a Director and International Counsel for the American Russian Law Institute and serves as Law Editor of MT-NewsWire since 2003

PUBLICATIONS and LEGISLATIVE WRITING

bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Participated in compilation and translation of the Trade and Commercial Laws of the Russian Federation. Official Codification and Commentaries (© 1993-1995 Oceana Publications, Inc. ISBN 0379-101831). The "Official Codification" was the first official English language reference source on new (post-perestroyka) Russian laws, used by US Courts, British Courts and international public institutions.
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Wrote and co-authored numerous reports and memoranda on the subject of Russian and international banking; money laundering and Russian legal reform.
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Wrote memoranda on the issues of Russia-Cyprus money laundering.
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) In 1999, at the request of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, with other experts of the American Russian Law Institute, assisted in evaluating and editing a draft of the "Foreign Money Laundering Deterrence and Anticorruption Act" (H.R. 2896)
bd10268_.gif (177 bytes) Wrote essays on transnational financial crimes and money laundering issues.

 

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

Russian and English fluently

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OXANA ADLER
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Congressional testimony of Emanuel Zeltser Sep. 11, 2000 hearing hearing on the Bank of New York Russian Organized Crime and Money Laundering Matters.
 

 

 

 

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The first official English language reference source of Russian commercial laws. Compiled, translated and codified by the staff of American Russian Law Institute: Emanuel E. Zeltser, Esq., Anna Reid, LL.M., LL.D., and Alexander Fishkin, LL.D.  together with the Academy of  the Ministry of Justice of Russia, and  the Law School of the University of Pittsburgh