Yulia Pogodina

Ms. Pogodina is a business, Intellectual Property, and corporate attorney with over 20 years of legal and business experience and is qualified to practice law in California and the Russian Federation. She specializes in business, corporate, international, intellectual property law, and banking instruments. Ms. Pogodina's extensive business experience allows her to provide sound advice not only from legal but also from the business perspective.

Additionally, Ms. Pogodina is an advisor for start-up companies and investors helping the latter in the evaluation process. Prior to moving to the United States, Ms. Pogodina was a well-established attorney and headed a branch with 45 employees at a major real estate agency.

Ms. Pogodina handles various transactions, including business formation, governance of local and offshore entities; equity financing (seed/angel/venture); funds structuring, alternative financing; stock options plans; tax exempt status for non-profit organizations; trademarks; copyrights; trade secrets; software licensing; application service provider agreements; technology transfers; contracts for international sales of goods; distributorship; international tax planning (with engagement of tax attorneys); asset protection; due diligence; structuring, negotiating cross-border transactions and arbitrage; SBLS/BGs and other transactions. She also has experience in enforcement of foreign judgments, business and intellectual property litigation matters, including invalidation of patents.

Ms. Pogodina’s business experience includes international trade; real estate investments; formation and managing international real estate funds; project management; marketing; raising capital, promoting companies, including writing business plans and structuring businesses.

Ms. Pogodina enjoys teaching and sharing her knowledge of law and business. She is engaged as a speaker at conferences and events.