Oksana Afanasyeva

Oksana Afanasyeva
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Oksana Afanasyeva

Partner

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Oksana is the head of tax practice at GRATA International St. Petersburg. She is an expert in the field of classical financial audit, accounting support, tax planning, development of financial strategies, management and accounting. Conducts investigations of financial abuses in organizations, accompanies on-site tax audits and assists in the collection of evidence.

She has extensive experience in the field of financial analysis in bankruptcy. Participates in the restructuring of the company.

Tax planning, negotiations with tax authorities, financial investigations, organization of effective management accounting systems, financial due diligence, tax audit and business valuation, protection in disputes with state tax authorities.

Industries:

  • Banking and Finance,
  • Industry and trade

Practices:

  • Tax law

CAREER:

  • Since 2009, headed "Audit Finance Petersburg".
  • Since 2018, she has been a partner of Legal Studio.
  • Since 2019 she is a partner of GRATA International St. Petersburg.

LANGUAGES:

  • Russian,
  • English.

MEMBER:

  • Member of the German chamber of Commerce SA of auditors “Sodruzhestvo”

EDUCATION:

  • 1996 — Kyrgyz State National University, Economics
  • 2004 – Moscow State University
  • 2010 –  Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics
Experience

Representing the interests of a large construction company of St. Petersburg, which was building the facilities for the World Cup in football in 2018 in a dispute with the Federal Tax Service of Russia. The result was a drop in the demands for payment from the tax authorities, from 200mlr. rubles, up to 35 million rubles, more than 5 times.

Legal support and tax advice for one of the largest construction companies in Russia with a capitalization of $ 3,500,000,000.

Tax audit and adjustment of internal documentation for "Yuzhnaya" oil Depot, one of the leading suppliers of petroleum products in the North-West of Russia.

Successful consulting of Laboratory furniture factory Expert LLC during on-site tax audit. The amount of tax claims is 100,000,000 rubles.

Advising one of the largest construction companies in Saint Petersburg in the process of conducting an on-site tax audit. The amount of tax claims was 200,000,000 rubles.

Support for the creation of the first closed-end mutual investment Fund in Russia in the amount of 5,000,000 EUR. in the field of legal claims financing for Seitenberg LLC. Creating a legal framework for the business process of the project was complicated by the lack of special legislation regulating external judicial financing.

Legal and tax consultancy activities of the sausage factory "Otradnoe". Setting up management accounting and minimizing tax risks. The company's capitalization is 400,000,000 rubles.

Awards
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Kommersant 2022

News

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GRATA International’s Russian team in Kommersant’s “Best legal practices” ranking

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GRATA International Russian team in Pravo.ru-300 «Recommended Lawyers»

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The third International Online Conference was held by GRATA International

Publications

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Tax control in the Russian Federation and appeals against the results

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Tax changes for IT companies. What's new?