Yulia Zamyatina

Partner

Specialization

Labor law
Real Estate
Land law
Corporate structuring and business due diligence
Contract Law
Litigation representation

Qualification

State University – Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law in 2001.
Graduated from the “Legal Writing I” program at Pericles ABLE.

Fluent in English.

Practice areas

Yulia Zamyatina specializes in labor law, consulting international and Russian companies on a wide range of Labor law issues, including international aspects, layoffs, dismissals, restructurings, motivation programs, top management, and international employee’s problems. Yulia represents clients in court with Labor law matters.
She also specializes in real estate transactions, legal due diligence of properties, and Yulia has participated in the development of comments on the application of the FIDIC code of practice.
Yulia has been working in legal consulting since 2001.

Professional work experience

2014 – present, Partner, AT Law Firm
2008 – Senior Lawyer, AT Law Firm
Before joining AT Law Firm, she has worked at a Moscow law consulting firm where she consulted Russian and international clients on civil, labor law and land law cases.
Yulia provided legal support for the day-to-day operations of Motorola’s Moscow office in 2004-2007.

Expert activity and professional associations

Yulia participated in drafting of comments on the application of the FIDIC Code of Practice (2020).
Yulia is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA).

Projects

Consulting the Russian branch of an Italian producer of brake systems on the Labor law issues (development of local regulations, registration of business trips and sick leave, preparation of addendums to employment contracts on changes in working conditions, wage indexation, etc.) on a daily basis.

Consulting the Russian subsidiary of an international resource company on the drafting of documents and management of document turnover in order to comply with employment law and staff hiring (drafting local regulations, drafting employment contracts with top managers and ordinary employees, advising on employee dismissal, etc.) on a daily basis.

Consulting one of the world's largest software developers on issue of staff reduction in its Russian office to optimize the costs of maintaining its Russian subsidiary (drafting staff reduction documents, assisting with dismissal).

Consulting a foreign participant of a Russian IT company on issues related to transferring employees to a telecommuting mode of work (drafting amendments to the Labor Code, drafting an addendum to the employment contract, consulting on issues related to communication with telecommuters, etc.).

Protecting the interests of an employer (one of Russia's largest trucking companies) in a dispute with the CEO challenging dismissal due to termination of the director's powers by resolution of the general meeting of participants.

Consulting a Russian venture capital company in connection with abuse of employee rights: negotiating with employees, drafting documents and the employer's position, also for legal defense.

Consulting a public company in the agricultural sector (foreign invested company) on staff reduction issues, supporting the reduction, including drafting documents, negotiations with employees, defending the employer's interests in court in a dispute with redundant employees over reinstatement (the court rejected the employee's claim).

Consulting a Russian department of an international bank on staff reduction and dismissal, negotiating with employees, compliance with all dismissal procedures, representation in court in disputes with former employees in connection with redundancies.