Alina Beker
Overview
Experience
Alina Beker is a Partner at GRATA International Samara.
She has over 20 years of professional experience in the legal field. Alina specializes in corporate and tax law, and provides comprehensive legal support to businesses. Her track record includes numerous successfully implemented projects related to corporate dispute resolution, mitigation of tax risks, and challenging decisions issued by tax authorities.
Education:
1998 -2002, Samara State University of Economics (Law)2017 -2018, Autonomous Non-Profit Organization of Additional Professional Education "Institute of Professional Growth" (Taxation and Tax Consulting)Languages:
EnglishRussianExperience
- Advising on the registration, reorganization, and liquidation of legal entities, branches, and representative offices in the Russian Federation;
- Conducting pre-bankruptcy compliance for a major joint-stock company supplying electrical equipment;
- Participating in comprehensive legal due diligence for the acquisition of a hotel and restaurant complex;
- Supporting a field tax audit for a construction development company, achieving a reduction in additional tax charges by over RUB 200 million at the pre-trial stage;
- Supporting a desk tax audit for a federal cleaning services company;
- Assessing tax risks associated with business fragmentation for a leading Russian jewelry company, and developing a reorganization plan with full legal support for the creation of a franchising structure to mitigate tax risks;
- Contributing to a project on the analysis of proposed tax risk mitigation strategies for a carbon products manufacturer, including the development of alternative tax optimization solutions;
- Successfully challenging a Federal Tax Service (FNS) decision following a field tax audit of a private security company, reducing additional charges from RUB 150 million to RUB 41 million;
- Overturning a decision of the Interregional Inspectorate of the FNS in court, reinstating prior approval for voluntary liquidation of a legal entity;
- Successfully disputing a tax authority’s decision to exclude a legal entity from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL) based on incorrect information about a deceased founder and lack of identified heirs;
- Supporting the liquidation of a Russian legal entity—a major automotive dealer in the Volga region—with a foreign participant from an unfriendly jurisdiction;
- Recovering over RUB 24 million in debt and penalties in court on behalf of a leading manufacturer of gas processing equipment;
- Successfully representing a major restaurant holding in a trademark infringement case, securing compensation from the infringer;
- Representing a leisure services provider in a case brought by the transport prosecutor seeking a ban on the use of watercraft, with a successful outcome;
- Representing a construction developer in arbitration proceedings challenging a bank account agreement;
- Representing a management company in an administrative case initiated by the Central Bank of Russia concerning corporate law violations related to the failure to convene an extraordinary general meeting at the request of a shareholder;
- Providing legal support for cross-border transfers and international financial operations of a major federal retail chain;
- Structuring agency payment agreements for exporters and importers operating in both B2B and B2C sectors;
- Advising on a transaction involving the buyout of export revenue from a non-resident company;
- Drafting a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement for the construction of an additional regional medical facility.