Yulia is a seasoned intellectual property and TMT practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the field. Over 17 years she served as Head of Legal at Disney and Paramount across Russia and the CIS, before founding her own legal practice, which she has been building for over three years.

Since 2017 Yulia has been consistently recognised in the Legal 500 GC Powerlist individual attorney rankings. In 2025 she was placed in the first tier of the Intellectual Property category in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta legal ranking.
Yulia serves as a faculty member for the RPPA.pro and Legal Academy continuing legal education programmes, where she teaches copyright and digital law to legal professionals. Since 2023 she has been invited as a Russian speaker at the Media Law International Conference in London and is a regular contributor to leading Russian industry forums.

Yulia is the founder of LUMIERES Circle - a professional community of more than 50 practitioners in the media and entertainment legal space. She is also a trusted expert commentator for numerous media outlets on matters of intellectual property and artificial intelligence.

Marina is a seasoned legal practitioner with extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions, banking and finance, innovative digital technologies, sanctions compliance, and AI governance. She holds the AIGP/IAPP certification in artificial intelligence governance.

Marina brings a seamless integration of legal strategy with rigorous AML, KYC, regulatory, and international sanctions compliance requirements, ensuring that her clients operate within fully compliant and commercially sound frameworks.

Core Areas of Expertise
Marina is a seasoned legal practitioner with extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions, banking and finance, innovative digital technologies, sanctions compliance, and AI governance. She holds the AIGP/IAPP certification in artificial intelligence governance.
Marina brings a seamless integration of legal strategy with rigorous AML, KYC, regulatory, and international sanctions compliance requirements, ensuring that her clients operate within fully compliant and commercially sound frameworks.

Core Areas of Expertise
With a track record spanning 500+ transactions, Marina advises on deals and financing structures across multiple jurisdictions, including trade finance and project finance in multi-jurisdictional settings. Her practice encompasses the legal support of payment systems and fintech projects, as well as the legal architecture of mobile banking applications and instant cross-border payment platforms. Marina has extensive experience advising on relationships with major global financial institutions and international development banks, providing counsel that bridges legal precision with the operational realities of international finance.

Malika is a communications and government relations specialist with a strong track record in complex, cross-functional projects. She has advised and collaborated with leading global companies, including Apple, Netflix, and Meta, and has contributed to the development of marketing frameworks and corporate culture initiatives for the Electronic Government of Kazakhstan, where she played an instrumental role in advancing the content distribution market.

Vadim serves as Of Counsel to LUMIERES Legal, bringing over 15 years of experience gained at leading international law firms and multinational corporations, including Kimberly-Clark and Disney. In these roles, he headed legal functions supporting licensing and advertising activities, provided comprehensive legal counsel to businesses operating across the CIS, and held positions within senior leadership teams.

Vadim regularly represents LUMIERES Legal at prominent industry conferences and webinars, contributing as a speaker on consumer products licensing and the legal and commercial landscape of media business in the Middle East.

Igor specializes in content compliance, with a focus on the legislative and regulatory frameworks governing content in Russia and the CIS jurisdictions.

Nikita's practice encompasses legal support for content production and distribution deals, the acquisition of format rights and adaptation agreements, and marketing campaigns, with additional expertise in advertising content regulation and placement compliance.

Daurenbek heads the Kazakhstan office of LUMIERES Legal, overseeing partnership development, business operations, and the firm's market presence across Central Asia. Since the establishment of the office in 2024, he has been responsible for coordinating day-to-day operations and managing the delivery of client mandates in the content and technology sectors.