Senior Associate

Financial Services Regulation & FinTech

Expertise

Olga is a senior associate at gunnercooke llp, specialising fintech and emerging technologies since 2018, and is recognised as a key lawyer for FinTech: regulatory in Legal 500. She has been selected as co-author for Trends and Developments in both FinTech as well as Blockchain for Chambers.

Her work is at the forefront of fintech, with client operating in AI, blockchain andcryptoassets, payments, shadow insurance and funds. Her practice is divided between corporate work (including investments, legal structuring and corporate governance) and regulatory / compliance work (including go to market and conduct of business requirements). She is fluent in English, French, and Russian.

Olga Advises

Olga’s client base includes:

  • Founders and startups on set-up, investment (SAFEs, ASAs, SAFTs, token warrants, etc.), as well as general go to market.
  • Scaleups in legal and business structuring and growth.
  • Investors and fund managers investing into businesses.
  • Buyer and sellers of businesses.

Whilst her client base operates across the FinTech ecosystem, Olga is particularly recognised for her work in AI (including agentic AI) and Web3 (where she has worked for some of the largest players in the industry).

 

Experience Highlights

  • Advising TokenOps on its acquisition by Zama.
  • Advising peaq, a layer-1 blockchain designed to power robots, machine real-world assets, and DePINs, on the corporate restructure and commercial arrangements.
  • Advising Native, a web3 insurance broker, on full set up.
  • Advising one of the largest global DEXs its corporate reorganisation.
  • Advising a range of crypto projects on entering different global markets, commercial arrangements, DAO structuring, investment transactions and acquisitions.
  • Advising SyntropyX on the set-up of a new multi-tiered stablecoin.
  • Advising LO:TECH, a market maker, on its $5 million seed financing led by 13books Capital with participation from institutional and angel investors.
  • Providing end-to-end legal support for a fintech project, including licensing strategy, financial services regulation, AML/KYC frameworks, privacy policies, and commercial agreements with banks, payment providers, and API partners.
  • Drafting regulatory legal memoranda for a bank on crypto asset regulation compliance.
  • Creating a corporate structure for a web3 platform with a gaming ecosystem.
  • Advising an international blockchain company on corporate structuring, investor negotiations, and data protection compliance.
  • Preparing legal documentation for a cryptocurrency exchange (terms of service, privacy policy, risk disclosures).

Providing contracting and legal support for a blockchain infrastructure and mining company.

Career History

Previous Firms

  • Startup Legal, International Law Expert (2022 – 2025)
  • Mosgortrans, Deputy Head of the Legal Service (2021 – 2022)
  • Moscow Directorate of Transport Services, Legal Counsel (2020 – 2021)
  • GRAD Legal and Financial Advisory Services, Associate, Practice of Fintech & Blockchain, Financial Activity Regulation (2018 – 2020)

Education

  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), PhD in International Law (2020 – 2024)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), LL.M., International Law and Legal Studies (2018 – 2020)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Bachelor’s Degree (2014 – 2018)

Other

  • Host of the CryptoCast webinars
  • Lecturer on blockchain and cryptoassets with MBL webinars
  • Presenter on the London Blockchain Conference webinar series

Expertise

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Olga is a senior associate at gunnercooke llp, specialising fintech and emerging technologies since 2018, and is recognised as a key lawyer for FinTech: regulatory in Legal 500. She has been selected as co-author for Trends and Developments in both FinTech as well as Blockchain for Chambers.

Her work is at the forefront of fintech, with client operating in AI, blockchain andcryptoassets, payments, shadow insurance and funds. Her practice is divided between corporate work (including investments, legal structuring and corporate governance) and regulatory / compliance work (including go to market and conduct of business requirements). She is fluent in English, French, and Russian.

Olga Advises

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Olga’s client base includes:

  • Founders and startups on set-up, investment (SAFEs, ASAs, SAFTs, token warrants, etc.), as well as general go to market.
  • Scaleups in legal and business structuring and growth.
  • Investors and fund managers investing into businesses.
  • Buyer and sellers of businesses.

Whilst her client base operates across the FinTech ecosystem, Olga is particularly recognised for her work in AI (including agentic AI) and Web3 (where she has worked for some of the largest players in the industry).

 

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising TokenOps on its acquisition by Zama.
  • Advising peaq, a layer-1 blockchain designed to power robots, machine real-world assets, and DePINs, on the corporate restructure and commercial arrangements.
  • Advising Native, a web3 insurance broker, on full set up.
  • Advising one of the largest global DEXs its corporate reorganisation.
  • Advising a range of crypto projects on entering different global markets, commercial arrangements, DAO structuring, investment transactions and acquisitions.
  • Advising SyntropyX on the set-up of a new multi-tiered stablecoin.
  • Advising LO:TECH, a market maker, on its $5 million seed financing led by 13books Capital with participation from institutional and angel investors.
  • Providing end-to-end legal support for a fintech project, including licensing strategy, financial services regulation, AML/KYC frameworks, privacy policies, and commercial agreements with banks, payment providers, and API partners.
  • Drafting regulatory legal memoranda for a bank on crypto asset regulation compliance.
  • Creating a corporate structure for a web3 platform with a gaming ecosystem.
  • Advising an international blockchain company on corporate structuring, investor negotiations, and data protection compliance.
  • Preparing legal documentation for a cryptocurrency exchange (terms of service, privacy policy, risk disclosures).

Providing contracting and legal support for a blockchain infrastructure and mining company.

Career History

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Previous Firms

  • Startup Legal, International Law Expert (2022 – 2025)
  • Mosgortrans, Deputy Head of the Legal Service (2021 – 2022)
  • Moscow Directorate of Transport Services, Legal Counsel (2020 – 2021)
  • GRAD Legal and Financial Advisory Services, Associate, Practice of Fintech & Blockchain, Financial Activity Regulation (2018 – 2020)

Education

  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), PhD in International Law (2020 – 2024)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), LL.M., International Law and Legal Studies (2018 – 2020)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Bachelor’s Degree (2014 – 2018)

Other

  • Host of the CryptoCast webinars
  • Lecturer on blockchain and cryptoassets with MBL webinars
  • Presenter on the London Blockchain Conference webinar series