Victor Machekhin:
Country: Russia
Location: Moscow
Position: Head of Tax Practice
Company: Linklaters
Email: victor.matchekhin @ linklaters.com
Victor Machekhin involved in: Eurobonds and beneficial ownership: the Russian and international practice. Victor Machekhin specializes in tax law, including tax litigation and tax consulting. He has extensive experience in advising major foreign companies, especially the financial sector, as well as - Russian enterprises, including state participation in a wide range of issues in the field of taxation, including the taxation of securities, transaction banking, structured products, international taxation, etc. Victor involved in the preparation of draft laws aimed at improving tax legislation.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute of National Economy named after Plekhanov, Moscow State Law Academy, as well as the Russian private law school, he was awarded a Master of Laws degree. Victor Machekhin teaches tax and financial law at Moscow State Law Academy named O.E.Kutafina and the Russian School of Private Law. He speaks English, and is the author of numerous publications on tax issues in national and international journals.
According to leading independent international rankings of law firms The Legal 500, Chambers Europe and the International Tax Review magazine Machekhin Victor is one of the leading experts in the field of tax law in Russia.
Victor is responsible secretary of the Russian branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA DFB). He is actively involved in organizing events on international taxation in Russia and take a direct part in them.

Rustam Vahitov:
Country: Netherlands
Title: Partner
Company: International Tax Associates
Email: vakhitov@intertaxlaw.org
Rustam Vahitov involved in: Switzerland, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Luxembourg, a tax news first-handEurobonds and beneficial ownership: the Russian and international practice
Rustam Vahitov - a specialist in the area of ​​international taxation.
Prior to joining ITA worked in consulting companies in Russia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. In matters of international taxation since 2002.
Specialization: international taxation, tax structuring and consulting with international tax treaties, deals with the use of financial instruments, the structuring of private equity (assets), support of international mergers and acquisitions.
The deputy head of the Russian branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). Fluent in English and Dutch, the author of publications on international taxation.

Pasquale Pistone:
Country: Austria
Location: Vienna
Position: Head. Department of European tax law and policy
Company: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Email: pasquale.pistone @ wu.ac.atPasquale Pistone is involved in: Eurobonds and beneficial ownership: the Russian and international practice
Prof. Pistone is chair of the European tax law and policy at the Economic University of Vienna. He is the author of numerous books and articles on international taxation.

Denis Shchekin:
Country: Russia
Title: Managing Partner
Company: Shchekin and Partners
Denis Shchekin involved in: Transfer pricing: European trends and the Russian practice
Denis Shchekin specializes in tax law and litigation, including tax litigation and tax consulting. With experience in tax consulting and litigation disputes with the tax authorities in 1995
According to leading independent international rankings of law firms The Legal 500, Tax Directors Handbook, Chambers Europe, The European Legal Experts and The Best Lawyers Denis is one of the leading experts in the field of tax law in Russia (the twenty most prominent tax lawyers Russia since 2009 ).
Denis author of over 12 books on taxation and the large number of articles. Denis is one of the most prominent speakers on issues of taxation, in addition to lectures at Moscow State University, he speaks in public every week on various tax issues at various seminars, conferences and round tables.

Nicholas Bibikov:
Country: Russia
Location: Moscow
Position: Head of the Directorate of tax planning and analysis, a practicing tax consultant.
Company: Financial Corporation "URALSIB"
Email: BibikovNI@uralsib.ruNicholas
Bibikov involved in: Transfer pricing: European trends and the Russian practice
2006 - graduated from the Russian Ministry of Finance VGNA specialty taxes and taxation.
experience with the tax authorities and practical advice.
Specialization:
taxation of the financial sector;
structuring activities under optimal taxation.
In the area of ​​taxation of 10 years.

Boris Brook:
Country: Russia
Location: Moscow
Position: Advisor
Company: Dentons
Boris Brook is involved in: Transfer pricing: European trends and the Russian practice
Boris Brook - Advisor of the Moscow office Dentons (formerly Salans). He specializes in corporate and international tax law and has extensive experience in advising on the tax aspects of corporate restructurings.
Boris, in particular, advises clients on tax structuring in connection with the financing of joint ventures in Russia, in international transactions, as well as on foreign investment and Russian investments abroad. His work includes the development of optimal from the point of view of taxation of personal and corporate holding structures, structures, funding and management of intellectual property portfolio, as well as advising on the identified tax risks. Boris also has experience in providing consulting services in the field of taxation in relation to the IPO.
Boris is recognized as one of the best tax professionals in Russia to assess the Chambers Global, Legal 500 and World Tax. Boris is a member of the International Fiscal Association and for three consecutive years, its official appointed rapporteur for the Russian Federation.
Read the article by Boris Brook in Legal Insight № 3-2012 « The legal status of comments to the OECD Model Convention - statement of the problem "

Boian Popov
Boian is a tax partner with IFAA Accountants and Tax Advisers (IFAA). He is an all-round adviser in the Dutch international tax practice with an extensive experience in international taxation and the coordination and implementation of various global projects.
Before joining IFAA as a tax partner in 2009, he worked for more than eight years for KPMG and Ernst & Young, where he primarily advised multinational corporate clients. During his Ernst & Young period he worked for the Dutch Desk of Ernst & Young in London providing advise to American corporate clients, as well as America based private equity and real property funds on the tax aspects of European investments.
At the Amsterdam practice of Ernst & Young he was a member of Multinational Corporate Department which advise Turkish companies on the tax aspects of European investments in general and Turkish outbound & through bound investments in particular.
Boian also specializes in Eastern Europe and Russia related international restructuring projects.
Boian is a native Bulgarian and Dutch speaker and fluent in English. He holds a Master Degree in Tax Law from the University of Leiden.

Oksana Kovalev
Country: Russia
Location: Moscow
Position: Head of Tax and Administrative Law of the Directorate of Legal Affairs
Company: JSC "Gazprom Neft"
Email: KOVALEVA.OP @ Gazprom-neft.ru
Oksana Kovalev is involved in: Deofshorizatsiya: control of foreign companies in the new environment
Oksana Kovalev has served as Head of Tax and Administrative Law of the Directorate of Legal Affairs of OAO "Gazprom Neft".
Professional legal and financial education received at the law and economics at the Syktyvkar State University, on the excellent defense of a thesis.
started his career as a specialist in the Komi Republic of Territorial Administration of the State Antimonopoly Committee of Russia.
In 1998 he continued his career in the position of leading counsel of one of the largest pulp and paper mill Russia - Syktyvkar LPK. In 2007, she headed the administration of the courts and tax practices KB KIT Finance Investment Bank (St. Petersburg).
Since late 2008, she worked as a senior associate and later head of the tax practice of the Company Capital Legal Services, L.L.K, which led the group to support projects related to the application of the tax and customs law, anti-trust legislation.
During his work in the Capital Legal Services, L.L.K served as co-chair of the Committee on Legislation and Public Policy of the St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) and customer feedback has been awarded The Chambers & Partners Europe in the list of the leading practitioners of Russia and St. Petersburg.
Since 2011, heads the Office of Tax and Administrative Law of the Directorate of Legal Affairs of OAO "Gazprom Neft". For his achievements in professional activities was nominated for the award ILO / ACC European Counsel Awards 2013 in the section "Corporate taxes."
Oksana has a sixteen-year experience in the field of jurisprudence and currently specializes in tax and competition law, has extensive experience representing businesses and individuals individuals in the various categories of disputes with the authorities and management.

Stefano Simontacchi:
Country: Italy, The Netherlands
Location: Milan, Leiden
Position: Director
Company: Transfer Pricing Research Center Leiden
Email: stefano.simontacchi @ beplex.com
Stefano Simontacchi involved in: Transfer pricing: European trends and the Russian practice
Mr. Simontacchi is the Director of the Transfer Pricing Research Center Leiden (TPRC Leiden) and partner of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo in the Milan office and is a member of the firm's Partners Executive Committee. He focuses on tax law, with particular emphasis on legal opinions, real estate transactions, real estate and equity funds, private equity, M & A and reorganisations, transfer pricing, and fiscal planning. He regularly publishes articles and books on transfer pricing and international taxation and has lectured in Taxation and International Taxation for many years at several universities and master programmes, at the most renowned international tax and law conferences.

The legal journal «Legal Insight», International Tax Associates IFA and hold a conference on topical issues of international taxation.

Legal Insight with the support of International Tax Associates and the Russian branch of the International Fiscal Association (DFB EIA) carried out a third free webinar in preparation for an international tax conference , "Life after Cyprus: Tax upgrade", which will be held June 4, 2013 .

PROGRAM:
8:30 - 09:30 Registration and welcome coffee break
09:30 - 11:00 Session 1: • Eurobonds and beneficial ownership: Russian and international practices discussions concerning taxation programs of Eurobonds and several cases considered by Russian and foreign vessels on the beneficial ownership (East Value Capital partners, make this an important concept and Russian companies, particularly in the light of the forthcoming abolition of the special regime of payments in the programs of Eurobonds in 2014. On the practical importance for Russian companies aspects of these developments, we'll talk with leading experts - Pasquale Pistone, Victor Machehina (Linklaters), Rustam Vakhitov (International Tax Associates) and a number of other experts.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: • Transfer pricing: European trends and the Russian practice of transfer pricing is a hot topic for Russian companies for many years. Our guest and will be a key expert Stefano Simontacchi (Italy), the party to enter into a preliminary agreement on transfer prices "Rosneft" Denis Shchekin (Shchekin and partners) and Nicholas Bibikov (Uralsib). We will discuss the practical aspects of the implementation of procedures documenting transactions, price justification and methods to reduce the risks of disputes with the tax authorities, including through the conclusion of preliminary agreements on transfer prices with tax authorities.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Session 3: • Deofshorizatsiya: control of foreign companies in the new conditions of effective integration of foreign companies in the real business processes to maintain foreign institutions through interaction with foreign service - providers. Foreign companies are groups of passive empty transit instruments are gradually turning into real functioning units. How to build effective relationships with service - providers and private operating companies, how to increase the efficiency of their operations while maintaining or reducing costs - we'll discuss this with the experts of the industry.
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00 Session 4: Switzerland, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Luxembourg, a tax the first to hear latest developments in Cyprus make careful monitoring of the situation in the host countries of foreign group companies are not only desirable, but also vital to the success of the group. With foreign counterparts will consider ways to address the problems caused by the crisis in Cyprus, and current trends in the countries most frequently used in the Russian tax structuring.