The CIS LONDON team has recently completed registration of the Foundation for Palliative Care Education (PACED) as a charity in the UK, through the Charity Commission. This charitable organization is conceived to provide systematic support to professionals in the field of palliative care and related areas, in regions where palliative and hospice care are underdeveloped.

It was an honour for us to provide assistance to the PACED trustees, who include:

• Dr Robert Twycross – professor of Oxford University, one of the pioneers of hospice and palliative medicine in UK. Founder member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP); The Association of Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland; the European Association for Palliative Care; and the Palliative Care Research Society (UK).

• Nyuta Federmesser – founder of the VERA Hospice Charity Fund, the only Russian non-profit organisation that provides support to hospices and their patients, and a director of the Moscow Centre for Palliative Medicine.

• Dmitry Yampolskiy – successful Russian advocate with years of experience in pro bono work and a Chairman of the Board at the VERA Hospice Charity Fund.

PACED aims to improve the availability of relevant information for professionals in the field of palliative care; to help create technologies for the application of this knowledge; and to ultimately equalize the standards of palliative care across the world.

Registration of PACED in the UK, with the support of CIS LONDON, is the first step towards raising the level of palliative care to an international standard in the CIS countries and other regions of the world where palliative is in the initial stages of development.

Svetlana London joined the Kazakh Judges delegation at the Chartered Accountant’s Hall as a speaker to discuss the future cooperation and support which The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales may offer to the Astana International Finance Centre. She has also given a presentation on routes to qualification in the UK.

We are proud to announce that Svetlana London has been featured in the Chambers & Partners High Net Worth guide as one of the leading private wealth lawyers.

Svetlana has been praised for her impressive ability to “move seamlessly between Russian and English law.”

A market commentator notes: “She perfectly understands the little details of the Russian mentality and cultural approach. Svetlana takes pride in her work and has an extreme attention to detail. She naturally builds very good rapport with clients.”

On 10 July 2017 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), in partnership with the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and the UK Department for International Trade hosted a FinTech forum dedicated to Transforming Financial Services of Kazakhstan.

Svetlana London was invited to take part in a panel discussion on Regulation of FinTech.

Svetlana London joined as a delegate the UK Delegation of experts at the first meeting of the UK-Russia FinTech Working Group. The group was established by the membership body TheCityUK that was awarded UK Government funding for this project. The first meeting out of 4 was held on 28 June 2017 at the Moscow Exchange.

The ultimate goal of the initiative is to establish an operational UK-Russia FinTech senior-level stakeholder group and create a related work programme in order to improve prospects for business in the financial services industries in both countries.

Svetlana was glad to contribute to the working group’s discussions on FinTech Regulation, Cyber-Security, and Start-up and Innovation.

London New Tech held an event dedicated to Russian Tech in collaboration with Rutech Ventures on 20 June. CIS LONDON was honoured to support this initiative. In particular, Valeria Ivasikh shared legal tips for start-ups looking to enter the British market.

On 5 June Valeria Ivasikh was invited to give a talk at an event organised by Rutech Ventures – an independent initiative on a mission to accelerate the growth of Russian Tech – at Skolkovo Innovation Centre.

Valeria advised Russian start-ups on how to scale their business in the UK.

CIS LONDON was honoured to run a workshop for the judges of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan on 25 May 2017. Svetlana London was delighted to share her practical experience of working on cross-border projects to the Kazakhstani colleagues.