Aleksandra Mashkina is an Associate in the Private Wealth & International Tax practice at Orion. She advises clients on tax and legal matters, including asset structuring, international tax planning, capital amnesty and asset relocation. She specializes in setting up the most appropriate structures for asset protection and transfers, such as discretionary trusts and private foundations. Aleksandra also represents individual and corporate clients in court and advises on complex international arbitration and other litigation.
Before coming to Orion, Aleksandra served at a top firm providing services to high-net-worth individual clients and at the Moscow office of the international law firm White & Case.
Aleksandra’s experience includes advising and representing:
individual clients in relation to asset structuring and protection, and on matters of inheritance planning and implementing personal investment vehicles and holding entities;
individual clients on international tax planning, application of tax and foreign exchange laws and transaction support involving personal and business assets;
individual clients in the pretrial and judicial settlement of tax disputes;
individual clients on compliance matters, capital source of origin confirmation and representation before banks with the subsequent relocation of assets to the United Arab Emirates;
a contractor in an arbitration under Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) Rules against a country in Central Asia and a state concern. The dispute involved a fertiliser plant and a contract in the amount of $ 1 billion;
major Russian banks in relation to numerous court proceedings in the bankruptcy process and enforcement of court judgments in various jurisdictions; and
the Kazakhstan state-owned uranium company in a lawsuit against the company’s former management for recovery of damages in the amount of $ 540 million.
Aleksandra graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in 2015 and earned a master’s degree from the International Law School at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) run by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2019.
