Team
Daniel Klein, BSME, JD Law (NY, MA, DC), MBA (LBS)
Partner & Co-Founder KP
Prior to co-founding KP, American attorney Daniel Klein (also a Canadian citizen) was a co-founder of Vasiliev Klein and Usov and Podolsky Vasiliev & Klein. He was formerly a co-founder of the Hellevig, Klein & Usov, Avenir Group (some Avenir companies are now referred to as Awara). Prior to founding Podolsky Vasiliev & Klein, Daniel worked at Marks & Sokolov which was the successor firm to Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Marks. From 2009 till 2012 Daniel served as a member of the board of directors of some subsidiaries of PPF’s/Generali’s Eldorado Electronics, NSK, Sibzavod, etc. Daniel was also Marketing Director for Sprandi sportswear.
Daniel is an expert on legal issues relating to Western companies doing business in Russia and Europe. Daniel also served on the boards of many Russian-based companies including: Actis Software, Skate Financial News to name a few. He has spearheaded the legal and business aspects of numerous company start-ups, venture capital/private equity investments, and geographic expansions of companies through acquisition and organic growth. Among other highlights in Daniel’s experience includes his serving as the EMEA MD for the then 2nd largest payment terminal manufacturer in the world: Hypercom (formerly NYSE: HYC; recently purchased by Verifone). As head of EMEA he managed offices in Dubai, Moscow, Budapest, Paris & England.
Daniel also was a filtration officer for the Vienna-based Siemen’s Red-Stars.com which purchased many internet e-tailing start-ups across Eastern Europe and Russia. Daniel also has extensive experience in the areas of real estate, franchising, mortgages, financial leasing, company structures, and contract law. He is a seasoned intellectual property attorney, experienced in litigating and prosecuting patents, trademarks & copyrights, especially pertaining to counterfeit goods. He has also practiced at the Paris-based firm Bouju Derambure Bugnon and New York-based Pennie & Edmonds (later partially merged with Jones Day). While working at Pennie & Edmonds in New York he was the lead trademark attorney for some of the firm’s sport clients including Australian Rules Football, the NBA and also worked on many NFL trademark matters. His main function was to oversea global trademark filings and prosecutions, product licensing matters, new sport franchising (Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets, Minnesota Timberwolves), as well as to pursue counterfeiters around the world.
Daniel has been very active in Russia for many years and currently resides in Tbilisi but travels frequently to Dubai and Newton USA.. Daniel holds a Juris Doctorate (New York Law School), an MBA (London Business School) and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degrees (Washington University in St. Louis; with a focus on metallurgy and turbine technologies). He passed the State Bars of New York, Massachusetts, and passed the United States Patent & Trademark bar.
Daniel used to run the first and only English-language monthly legal column referred to as “Daniel Klein’s Legal Line” in Russia’s Passport Magazine (www.passportmagazine.ru). Daniel also used to teach Securities Regulations at Moscow’s Pericles Law School. Daniel is also a lecturer at Skolkovo’s start-up academy. Daniel has co-produced a TV program for Carlton TV (the UK), appeared as a guest on SkyNews program which he organized and produced (“The Cash Point Ghost”), and has had numerous other appearances on Russia Today, as well as many interviews on Business FM and other radio stations. Daniel is a citizen of the US and also a citizen of Canada and speaks English (mother tongue), French, Russian, Czech and Spanish.
George Pantsulaia,
Partner
George graduated from Tbilis State University with a bachelors in Law. He also studied at Hamburg Univeristy taking several legal classes in International law.
His practice areas include Real Estate, Surrogacy, Contract Law, Immigration,Corporate Fraud, Banking Law and an advisor to a criminal lawyer on all areas of criminal law. He has experience working for several years a short stint at a Big 4 accountant firm in Georgia, and with Dewey Ballantine. He brings to the firm a high standard of law for the firms Western and Georgian clients. He has worked for the second largest bank as a client managing all new interbank contracts. He headed a team of lawyers at Dewey relating to issuing secure paper and an IPO. George has worked on several high profile cases against large Georgia developers on behalf of apartment buyers, consumer protection cases, a small trademark case against a medium sized Georgian bank, several real estate law suits relating to false documents, and several corporate law suits relating to shareholding issues.
George also speaks almost perfect English and some German. George is also an avid footbal and tennis player
George Murvanidze
Partner
George Murvanidze focuses on advisory services on international capital markets transactions, initial public offerings (IPOs) and secondary public offerings (SPOs), also providing compliance matters (SOX, FCPA, UKBA); cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and general corporate and commercial matters. Special attention on matters with HNWI (high net-worth individuals), compliance, AML, worldwide taxation, residential programs, assistance with banking in various jurisdictions, mainly Cyprus, BVI, UK, US, Georgia, including enforcement of foreign court awards.
He worked for different U.S. and English law firms, and represented world’s largest legal database LexisNexis in Caucasus. George attended Tulane University Law School and Cambridge Academy of Transport. Major fields of his expertise are Admiralty & International Maritime Law, UKBA/FCPA compliance; Mergers & Acquisitions, Oil & Gas, Real Estate & Development, International Arbitration, Corporate Law, IT & Telecommunications, Investments & Financial transactions. George maintains personal contacts with the world’s famous experts and authors of textbooks in International and Maritime law. George is Honorary Citizen of New Orleans and member at London Maritime Arbitrators Association.
He started his legal career 30 years ago at Georgian Shipping Company, soon achieving position of a department chief at Georgian Maritime Administration. His another major corporate field was IT/Telecoms: George served for the U.S. MIG (Nasdaq: MTRM), telecom joint venture in CIS. George delivers tailored, strategic counsel designed to meet his clients’ specific goals, all with an emphasis on efficiency, precision, and solutions that work in today’s dynamic business landscape.
Nino Bolkvadze
Of Counsel
KLEIN & PANTSULAIA
Nino’s stellar work experience and exceptional educational background. In terms of work experience including DELOITTE Georgia, one of the premier local white shoe firms the National Bank of Georgia and GeoEnergy Project LLC.
As a result of this big brand/Western experience Nino brings big brand experience and know how to her law practice at local law firm prices which translates into fantastic value for money for clients. Nino was admitted to the Georgian Law Bar in 2011.
Just as Nino is very storied with her corporate law/litigation work experience, her educational background as well is very extensive, including:
2016
Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Private Law Department, Master’s Degree. (GPA 3.7)
2014
Sorbonne-Assas International Law School. Paris, France.
Pantheon Assas University (Paris 2)
LLM Degree at International Business Law.
2007 – 2011
Tbilisi State University; Tbilisi, Georgia.
Private Law Department, Bachelor’s (J.D.) Degree.
2008-2009
Young Georgian Lawyers Association; Tbilisi, Georgia.
Course at Private Law
Nino also has a Certificate of Successful Completion of the three Month Copyright Law Course
granted by Harvard University, Harvard Law School (CopyrightX Harvard) and
Tbilisi State University. June 2018.
An Arbitratior at 24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
Tbilisi 7th Pre Moot 2018
In addition to her native tongue of Georgian, Nino is also fluent in English, French & Russian
Ekaterine Museridze
Of Counsel
KLEIN & PANTSTULAIA
Areas of Expertise
· All areas of corporate work
· Commercial and Residential real estate
· Employment Law
· Contract Law
· Litigation and shareholder disputes
· Family Law including Pre-Nuptial Agreements,
Surrogacy etc
· Personal Data Protection
· Area of Protection of Consumer’s rights in Georgia
In the past 15 years Ekaterine has experience running the legal Dapartments and working as an in-house Lawyer in Multinational and Domestic companies Her has an experience working in Fashion Retail, Insurance, Automotive industry and Medical businesses.
EDUCATION:
Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
International Business Negotiations, Alternative Dispute Resolutions (Certificate)
Scholar
June – July 2016
Annual Meeting of the International BAR Association (Vienna, Austria)
Continuing Professional Legal Development (Certificate)
Delegate / Scholar
October 1-10, 2015
ILEC- International Legal English Certificate
December 2009 – March 2010
Georgetown University (Washington, DC. USA)
The Engalitcheff Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems (ICPES)
Comparative Politics and Economy (Certificate)
Scholar
May-August 2007
American Institute on Political and Economic Systems AIPES (Prague, Czech Republic)
Georgetown University in Cooperation with Charles University
American Politics and Economy (Certificate)
Scholar
June –July 2006
Have Passed Bar Examination in Civil and Administrative Law (Tbilisi, Georgia)
May 18, 2006.
Member of Georgian Bar Association since 2010
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Faculty of Law
Master of Law – LLM (2000-2005)
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Georgian (native), English (fluent) Russian (fluent) German (basic)
Diana Glonti-Korashvili
Immigration Guru
KLEIN & PANTSTULAIA
Diana specializes in many civil and administrative fields and has years of experience working for the likes of TBC Bank amongst other well-known Georgian companies. For more than the past decade Lena has worked extensively and almost exclusively assisting foreigners obtain visas and especially Residence Permits. Working with hundreds of clients per year she has an impeccable track record assisting foreigners with visas and Residence Permits. Moreover, she has extensive experience working thru the courts in order to obtain extensions of rights to stay in country while the case is adjudicated and try to overturn refusals to issue RPs. Someone having a complicate or even simple immigration case, Diana is the go-to professional to get the best result.
In terms of her impressive education this includes
PhD Program in Law
Caucasus School of Law
Distance learning International Diploma programme: Business Law
Cambridge International College
Anna Kravtsova, LLM
Special Counsel (Portugal)
KLEIN & PANTSTULAIA
Anna is an experienced lawyer with 17+ years of legal practice with global tech, computer gaming, e-sports, and IT start-ups companies, as in-house general counsel, as a lawyer in an international law firm, and as an independent legal adviser. She is advising on software development, cloud computing, game development, e-sports related legal issues, e-commerce, crypto-assets, IP, data privacy and GDPR compliance, M&A and corporate governance.
She was a general counsel in Luxoft supporting its IPO on NYSE in 2013 and she currently serves as an outside general counsel at Virtuozzo, a private international company that provides virtualization software. In 2010 and 2013 Anna’s departments were recognized as the best legal departments in IT. Anna was also a general counsel at e-sports holding ESForce (owner of VirtusPro, SK and NaVi teams), head of legal at Yota Devices and chief legal officer at Playrix – one of the world’s largest mobile game developer and publisher.
Education
Queen Mary London University – Master of Laws in Computer and Communication Law, 2019
Pericles ABLE – Master of Laws in the US Business Law, 2007
Moscow State Law Academy – Law Degree, 2001
Qualifications and Membership
Attorney-at-law admitted in Russia and member of Moscow BAR
Member of IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals)
Also
Dedicated Ashtanga Yoga practitioner interested in ancient eastern philosophy
45+ visited countries
Notable clients *
Acronis
Parallels
Nexters
Asteros
Evernote
Alexander Litvinov
Special CIS Counsel KLEIN & PANTSULAIA
Alexander who was Magna Cum Laude and Valedictorian of his class has a 10+ year history working as an in house lawyer at many well-known foreign brands operating in Russia like Inditex (Zara, Pull & Bear etc), Solvay and several Western retailers. Alexander has a law degree from Moscow’s Peoples Friendship University and equally a masters in law and over 5 years of course work at a language academy (English & French). Alexander has also taught a course at Russia’s leading Masters in Law programme (at the prestigious Higher School of Economics).
Areas of Competency
– Real Estate; Retail Leases in particular (advised over 85 retail leases)
– Intellectual Property
– Most areas of Corporate
– Litigation, Arbitration and MKAS
– Extremely strong labor practice