About

Evgenia has practiced law in Russia since 1999 and in the District of Columbia since 2003, focusing on complex international and domestic corporate and commercial transactions, and business regulatory matters.  She handled corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, financings, securitization, and technology licensing. She has represented clients across many state borders and many industries, including real estate, financial services, oil and gas, hospitality, and telecommunications.  She has counseled cryptocurrency businesses since 2015 in transactional and state and federal regulatory matters. Since 2013 she has also specialized in immigration law, focusing primarily on employment and investment-based immigration and providing pro-bono services to the immigrant community in family-based and humanitarian immigration legal matters.

Evgenia is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.  

Evgenia has worked in major international law firms including Akin Gump, Baker & Hostetler, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, and Pepper Hamilton. She currently serves as of counsel to the District of Columbia law firms Cogent LLP and Oster McBride PLLC.

Evgenia holds an LL.M from the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington, DC, and a Masters of Law degree from the Kutafin Moscow State Law University.

A former Russian foreign service officer, Evgenia is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian. She is the proud mother of three tri-lingual children.