We offer a comprehensive range of solutions designed to support your business at every stage of its development and expansion. Whether you are only thinking about establishing a presence in Russia, optimizing your sales and distribution channels, investing in localizing your operations by setting up manufacturing facilities or logistics hubs in the country, or optimising your strategic approach and footprint, our expertise and service offerings are tailored to meet your specific goals. Explore our services below, categorized to help you identify the right support for your current needs.
A company has no operations or any legal presence in Russia. A key task at this stage is to objectively estimate Russian market potential and assess market entry opportunities. TeDo will conduct independent analysis of market conditions, regulatory environment, and key risks to enable companies to make a well-thought-out strategic decision.
A company has chosen to start business in Russia and is about to establish its legal presence in the country. The main goal is to enter the market in compliance with local laws and regulations at minimum operating costs. TeDo will provide a full support for the company registration. We will select an optimal legal form, draw up documents and lay a solid tax and legal foundation for future operations.
A company sells its goods or services in the Russian market ordinarily through distributors or its own retail chain. Focus shifts to expansion of sales channels, market share growth and brand enhancement. TeDo will help to effectively upsize a business while retaining control over legal, customs and tax obligations, and maintain stability when scaling up operations.
At this stage, a company decides to further invest in Russia, for example through setting up a greenfield capacity or making brownfield acquisitions, localising supply chains or relocating some R&D operations. The purpose is to improve competitiveness, reduce logistics and currency risks as well as build trust with customers and regulators. TeDo will help to implement a localisation project starting from the site selection and investment structuring to ensuring compliance with Russia’s industrial, environmental and tax policies.
A company decides to wind up its operations in Russia for strategic or external reasons. The task is to end the company’s existence in an orderly way meeting all obligations and minimising financial, legal and reputational implications. TeDo will provide support for the entire market withdrawal process from settling relationships with counterparties to correctly terminating business registrations with authorities.
Tax Services for Foreign Investors
- Advising on the Russia-specific corporate taxation system, permanent establishment (PE) related issues and tax status of operations in Russia
- Consulting on acting with commercial prudence when selecting a counterparty
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Consulting on the effective supply chain and contractual relationship structuring from the customs law perspective
- Consulting on such important customs issues as customs value, goods origin and customs classification, etc
- Advising on VAT when services are provided between Russian and foreign companies
Legal Services for Investors
Consulting investors on choosing the best legal mechanisms of entry to the Russian market
Corporate taxation
Analysing the permanent establishment (PE) risk which may arise for a foreign entity when its employees work in Russia based on a foreign employment agreement
Marketing and strategic research for investment projects, deals and companies
- Developing and verifying market / commercial assumptions for a project’s financial model
- Marketing case study for a financier
- Market capacity, competitive environment and project output demand analysing and forecasting
- Conducting a commercial due diligence of a business or an asset
Developing export strategies (go-to-market strategies)
- Analysing global and national trends
- Analysing target markets
- Exploring opportunities for cross-border cooperation
- Identifying and preparing recommendations for eliminationof barriers to exports
Tax Services for Foreign Investors
- Advising on the Russia-specific corporate taxation system, permanent establishment related issues and tax status of operations in Russia
- Effective structuring of future operations in Russia from the tax perspective, contract structuring support to mitigate tax risks, structuring of finance raising in Russia and intra-group transactions
- Transfer pricing support and preparing transfer pricing documentation in Russia
- M&A tax support (structuring acquisitions or establishment of Russian subsidiaries including the corporate form choice)
Accounting and Reporting in Russia
- RAR and/or IFRS/US GAAP accounting (1С, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and other systems)
- Tax accounting
- Preparing all types of reports including financial statements/accounting reports; tax, statistics and management reports; filing reports with appropriate authorities on behalf of clients
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Consulting on such important customs issues as customs value, goods origin and customs classification, etc
- Consulting on the effective supply chain and contractual relationship structuring from the customs law perspective
- Services related to the application of the reduced VAT rate
- Advising on VAT when services are provided between Russian and foreign companies
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Consulting investors on choosing the best legal mechanisms of entry to the Russian market
- Supporting the process of forming joint ventures with Russian partners
- M&A support (structuring acquisitions or establishment of Russian subsidiaries including the corporate form choice)
- Drawing up investment related contracts and negotiations support
- Structuring intellectual property rights agreements
- Consulting on regulatory issues (including anti-trust, currency and sanctions laws)
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Deal structuring including purchases and sales of businesses and real estate properties (share/asset deals), leases, joint venture creation and business restructuring
- Providing pre-deal support, preparing and agreeing on key terms and conditions of the deal (term sheets, LOI, MOU)
- Due diligence of the target and assets, identifying transaction restrictions
- Preparation of transaction documents, negotiations supports and deal closing
- Supporting an application for a transaction approval by the government
- Post-deal asset integration services
- Consulting on deal execution
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Consulting on business registration
- Preparation of documents and registration procedures management
- General corporate affairs support
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Relocation of employees in and outside Russia and employment structuring in Russia
- Work permits
- Immigration control registration
- Support in communications with Russian immigration authorities
HR administration
- Preparing HR documents (in hard copy and electronic format)
- Maintaining employment record books of employees (in hard copy and electronic format)
- Preparing staff reports for management purposes
- Preparing and filing staff reports with the government authorities
- Providing assistance in opening an individual personal account with the Russian Pension Fund (SNILS, an individual social security number)
- Restoring HR documents
Payroll Services
- Calculating payroll, personal income tax (PIT) and mandatoy insurance contributions
- Preparing payroll reports (among other things, for management accounting purposes)
- Preparing RAR and/or IFRS journal entries for payroll and taxes
- Preparing statutory reports to the state authorities
- Communicating with the Social Fund of Russia
- Preparing reports on highly qualified foreign employees
Military registration
- Registering with a local executive authority and a military registration office at the place of company registration
- Maintaining military registration records on an ongoing basis
Corporate taxation
- Analysing the permanent establishment (PE) risk which may arise for a foreign entity when its employees work in Russia based on a foreign employment agreement
- Analysing the deductibility of staff compensation costs from the income tax base
- Analysing the deductibility of staff costs allocated by a foreign company to a Russian entity in terms of CIT
- Providing advice on corporate tax matters
Employment and immigration law
- Legal support of employee secondment in and outside Russia and employee hiring process structuring
- Obtaining work permits
- Registration for migration control purposes
- Support in communications with Russian migration authorities
Tax compliance and support for physical persons
- Providing tax advice to employees coming to/leaving Russia
- Providing access to the Taxpayer Personal Account online service
- Preparing and filing personal income tax (PIT) returns with the tax authorities
- Preparing tax payment guides and verifying the correctness of
- payment allocation
- Checking for tax and other notifications issued by the tax authorities for physical persons
- Preparing responses to requests from the tax authorities
- Communicating with the tax authorities on various tax deductions, offsets of taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions or tax refunds
- Analysing the historical tax position to support the fulfilment of the taxpayer’s obligation to accrue and pay tax liabilities in full
- Reconciliation of payments with the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax clearance certificate to confirm the absence of
- taxes in arrears payable by the taxpayer to the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax residency certificate confirming that the person is a Russian tax resident
- Engaging with the tax authorities on matters related to the
- transport tax, property tax and land tax
- Assisting in notifying the tax authorities of opening/changing details/closing of accounts with foreign banks and other
- financial market organisations, preparing and filing annual foreign account cash flow statement/report on changes in the
- value of assets held on foreign accounts
- Assisting in notifying the Ministry of Internal Affairs of dual citizenship, residence permits or any other documents granting the right to permanent residence outside Russia
- Preparing notifications of participation in foreign companies/structures
- International tax planning for employers and employees
- Providing tax comments upon request (consulting services)
Currency law
- Conducting legal analysis of Russian currency control and counteractions laws and regulations, restrictions and bans on depositing earnings received by physical persons in foreign accounts
The business target due diligence and market environment analysis to make a
decision on the deal
decision on the deal
- Commercial Due Diligence
- Assets and Enterprise Value Analysis
- Financial Due Diligence
- Legal Due Diligence
- Tax Due Diligence
- Technical Analysis
- Environmental Due Diligence
Corporate intelligence – Integrity due diligence of business partners
- Locating ultimate beneficiaries and influential decision-makers
- Company and key personnel background checks and sanctions list screening
- Integrity due diligence of local and foreign contractors
- Asset tracing in Russia and abroad
Marketing and strategic research for investment projects, deals and companies
- Developing and verifying market / commercial assumptions for a project’s financial model
- Marketing case study for a financier
- Market capacity, competitive environment and project output demand analysing and forecasting
- Developing a go-to-market concept or strategy
- Conducting a commercial due diligence of a business or an asset
Marketing and strategic research for investment projects, deals and companies
- Developing and verifying market / commercial assumptions for a project’s financial model
- Marketing case study for a financier
- Market capacity, competitive environment and project output demand analysing and forecasting
- Developing a go-to-market concept or strategy
- Conducting a commercial due diligence of a business or an asset
Export acceleration programmes
- Market segmentation and identification of target partners
Developing operating models
- Developing the target organisational structures for export operations
- Developing cross-functional processes
- Outlining the target financial arrangements
- Developing the incentive system and KPIs
- Providing support in addressing legal, customs and tax aspects of export operations
Tax Services for Foreign Investors
- Effective structuring of future operations in Russia from the tax perspective, contract structuring support to mitigate tax risks, structuring of finance raising in Russia and intra-group transactions
- Transfer pricing support and preparing transfer pricing documentation in Russia
- Consulting on acting with commercial prudence when selecting a counterparty
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
Tax Services for Foreign Investors
- Consulting on the effective supply chain and contractual relationship structuring from the customs law perspective
- Consulting on such important customs issues as customs value, goods origin and customs classification, etc.
- Customs compliance assessment, including technical regulations and potential risk areas
- Analysing eligibility for customs benefits and providing practical assistance in applying them
- Assisting in obtaining customs resolutions, official explanations, etc.
- Providing assistance in VAT refunding
- Services related to the application of the reduced VAT rate
- Advising on VAT when services are provided between Russian and foreign companies
Tax Monitoring and Tax Risk Management
- Assessing the compliance with tax monitoring (TM) requirements and evaluating the practicability of entering TM
- Preparing an application package for admission and a data mart
- Enhancing and automating internal controls.
Accounting and Reporting in Russia
- RAR and/or IFRS/US GAAP accounting (1С, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and other systems)
- Tax accounting
- Preparing all types of reports includingfinancial statements/accounting reports; tax statistics and management reports;filing reports with appropriate authorities on behalf of clients.
Relationships with Tax Authorities and Tax Disputes
- Complete support during pre-inspection activities and tax inspections;
- Supporting negotiations with representatives of the Federal Tax Service at the central level;
- Pre-court and in-court defence in disputes;
Legal Services for Investors
- Consulting investors on choosing the best legal mechanisms of entry to the Russian market
- Supporting the process of forming joint ventures with Russian partners
- M&A support (structuring acquisitions or establishment of Russian subsidiaries including the corporate form choice)
- Drawing up investment related contracts and negotiations support
- Structuring intellectual property rights agreements
- Consulting on regulatory issues (including anti-trust, currency and sanctions laws)
- Dispute resolution support in courts and commercial arbitration
Employment and Immigration Law
- Relocation of employees in and outside Russia and employment structuring in Russia
- Work permits
- Immigration control registration
HR Administration
- Preparing HR documents (in hard copy and electronic format)
- Maintaining employment record books of employees (in hard copy and electronic format)
- Preparing staff reports for management purposes
- Preparing and filing staff reports with the government authorities
- Providing assistance in opening an individual personal account with the Russian Pension Fund (SNILS, an individual social security number
- Restoring HR documents
Payroll services
- Calculating payroll, personal income tax (PIT) and mandatory insurance contributions
- Preparing payroll reports (among other things, for management accounting purposes)
- Preparing RAR and/or IFRS journal entries for payroll and taxes
- Preparing statutory reports to the state authorities
- Communicating with the Social Fund of Russia
- Preparing reports on highly qualified foreign employees
- Providing support in the course of desk and field tax audits conducted by the government authorities;
- Providing support during audit
Methodology support
- Analysis, unification and standardisation of HR and payroll business processes for purposes of future transformation and modification
- Assisting in optimisation and development of methodology for dedicated functions (including SSC creation)
- Development, implementation, testing and pilot go live support for specialised HR record-keeping and payroll calculation software
- Helping with HR and payroll data migration to a new accounting system
- Providing support when the company enters the tax monitoring programme
Military registration
- Reviewing military service registration documents, restoring such documents
- Registering with a local executive authority and a military registration office at the place of company registration
- Maintaining military registration records on an ongoing basis
Advice and support during transition to electronic employee records
- Analysing HR business processes for implementing electronic HR document management, process optimisation and the transition plan development
- Agreeing on and developing electronic HR document management policy, employee consents to electronic HR document management, consents to personal data processing for electronic HR document management purposes
- Assisting in the transition and testing during the implementation and adaptation of the service
Support on occupational safety matters for non-production companies
- Analysing company-specific occupational safety requirements
- Preparing a report with recommendations on occupational safety compliance
- Drafting mandatory occupational safety documents
- Preparing mandatory occupational safety briefings for employees (electronic presentations and/or webinars, training sessions)
Corporate taxation
Providing advice on corporate tax matters
Tax compliance and support for physical persons
- Providing tax advice to employees coming to/leaving Russia
- Providing access to the Taxpayer Personal Account online service
- Preparing and filing personal income tax (PIT) returns with the tax authorities
- Preparing tax payment guides and verifying the correctness of payment allocation
- Checking for tax and other notifications issued by the tax authorities for physical persons
- Preparing responses to requests from the tax authorities
- Communicating with the tax authorities on various tax deductions, offsets of taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions or tax refunds
- Analysing the historical tax position to support the fulfilment of the taxpayer’s obligation to accrue and pay tax liabilities in full
- Reconciliation of payments with the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax clearance certificate to confirm the absence of taxes in arrears payable by the taxpayer to the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax residency certificate confirming that the person is a Russian tax resident
- Engaging with the tax authorities on matters related to the transport tax, property tax and land tax
- Assisting in notifying the tax authorities of opening/changing details/closing of accounts with foreign banks and other financial market organisations, preparing and filing annual foreign account cash flow statement/report on changes in the value of assets held on foreign accounts
- Assisting in notifying the Ministry of Internal Affairs of dual citizenship, residence permits or any other documents granting the right to permanent residence outside Russia
- Preparing notifications of participation in foreign companies/structures
- International tax planning for employers and employees
- Providing tax comments upon request (consulting services)
Currency law
Conducting legal analysis of Russian currency control and counteractions laws and regulations, restrictions and bans on depositing earnings received by physical persons in foreign accounts
Employment and immigration law
- Legal support of employee secondment in and outside Russia and employee hiring process structuring
- Obtaining work permits
- Registration for migration control purposes
- Support in communications with Russian migration authorities
Foreign companies in the Russian market
- Assessment of preparedness for external audits
- Audits and reviews of group reporting forms for purposes of the group audit in the component auditor role
- Audit of financial statements of Russian legal entities under Russian Accounting Regulations (RAR) and IFRS® Accounting Standards
- Testing the internal controls
- Internal audit services
- Consulting on complex RAR and IFRS accounting issues
- Advice on accounting, regulatory and statutory compliance matters under RAR and IFRS
- Sustainability services
- Inventory counts
- Audits of special-purpose financial statements and other attestations of financial and non-financial information
The business target due diligence and market environment analysis to make a
decision on the deal
decision on the deal
- Commercial Due Diligence
- Assets and Enterprise Value Analysis
- Financial Due Diligence
- Legal Due Diligence
- Tax Due Diligence
- Integrity and Affiliation Due Diligence
- IT Due Diligence
- HR Due Diligence
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Technical Analysis
Forensic reviews
- Operations monitoring to timely detect and prevent fraud
- Identification of misappropriation of funds, manipulations with reported data, non-arms length transactions and hidden conflicts of interest
- Disputes and litigation support including evidence gathering and damage calculation
- Development of practical recommendations on controls improvement and prevention of identified abuses going forward
Corporate intelligence – Integrity due diligence of business partners
- Locating ultimate beneficiaries and influential decision-makers
- Company and key personnel background checks and sanctions list screening
- Integrity due diligence of local and foreign contractors
- Asset tracing in Russia and abroad
Fraud and corruption risk assessment
- Diagnostics of business processes and operations to identify fraud and corruption risks
- Recommendations on control environment and business process visibility improvement
- Development and implementation of anti-fraud and anticorruption programmes
Professional qualifications
- Business Management diploma based on CIMA Rus
- IFRS Specialist diploma based on ACCA DipIFR
- NAFD (National Association of Financial Directors) qualification
Finance and reporting
- IFRS 2025: recent changes and practical aspects
- IFRS and RAS: accounting policy comparison and convergence
- IFRS intensive course
- Finance for non-financial leaders
- Corporate finance
- Management accounting
- Financial modelling
- Risk management and internal control system
Digital skills and AI
- Effective work and life communications with AI
- AI Training and Case Competition
- Effective business writing with GPT
- AI for finance
Leadership and communication
- Meta-skills for leaders
- Personal effectiveness
- Leadership and situational management
- Effective business communications
- Team design and development
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Employee Performance and Development Support (Staff costs benchmarking. Highlighting applicable best practices)
- We will compare your company staff costs in absolute and relative terms with Russian peers, including salaries, bonuses, travel expenses, voluntary medical insurance, learning, hiring and employment termination costs
- We will pinpoint local best practices applicable to your company enabling you to reduce and flexibly manage people costs
Employee Performance and Development Support (Organisational structure, KPIs and motivation system to support an ambitious growth strategy of your Russian business)
- We will develop an organisational and functional structure for your Russian business in line with your revenue growth
- targets and Russian regulatory requirements
- We will help to decompose your ambitious growth targets for Russia to the level of KPIs of executives and employees
- We will develop a motivation system aligned with the Russian mindset that will maximise revenue and profit per rouble of payroll for your Russian business
Employee Performance and Development Support (Russian business headcount and HR management)
- We will model your business headcount based on utilisation drivers with a view to keep your headcount at optimal levels for years ahead
- We will prepare sets of requirements and competencies for your employees and help to conduct their appraisal
Business Development Operating Model Support (Treasury function evolution)
- We will conduct analysis and benchmarking of Russian banks, define client requirements and select banks that meet the client requirements
- We will prepare a business case for the customer lending system, i.e., an in-house bank vs outsourcing
Business Development Operating Model Support (Expert support in putting in place and automating Russian accounting processes)
- We will prepare responses to complex Russian accounting issues
- We will map your chart of accounts and transaction subledgers
- We will propose an approach to RAR automation
Business Development Operating Model Support (Logistics infrastructure development)
- We will help you to manage your regional expansion in the best way possible
- We will model an optimal warehouse and transport network based on the regional demand forecast
- We will analyse the transport company market and help you to select the provider that fits best for your business
- We will help you to draft a template agreement for warehousing services (including SLA and contractor bonus-molus motivation)
RPA (Key automation expertise)
- Corporate governance, including boards of directors, board committees and other collegial corporate bodies
- Financial function and reporting, including financial and non-financial metrics
- Risk management, internal controls and internal audit
- Enterprise content management, including design of document management and electronic records management systems (ERMS)
- Master data and directory management
RPA (Types of services offered)
- Process digital maturity assessment and automation level benchmarking
- Process automation roadmap and specification development
- Implementation of solutions in selected areas of expertise
- System data migration, including partial migration
Cybersecurity
- As-Is information security assessment and benchmarking
- Mayak – TeDo product to benchmark the state of information security and IT functions
- Quantification of cyber risks
- Cyber Radar 360 – product and methodology
- Cybersecurity function transformation and strategy
- Cybersecurity architecture
- Regulatory compliance
- Cyber security compliance for financial organisations
- Cyber security culture promotion
- Cyber security process improvements
ERP
- ERP enabled business transformation programmes
- SAP-1C fast-track packaged solution
- ERP greenfield implementation
- Separation of local subsidiaries from international companies (carve-out)
- ERP support and development
- ERP template roll-out
- Functional architecture development
- Project management and implementation approach development services
- 1C DevOps launching services
- ERP implementation quality assurance
AI and Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Data engineering
- DevOps
- IT system architecture
- Product development
- Agile implementation
- BI, reporting and analytics system implementation
- Process Mining implementation
- Digital analysis for business
- Corporate data warehouses design and data engineering
Project finance, PPP and government support
- Making a blueprint for a potential project / business idea
- Supporting negotiations with financiers
- Developing / conducting an independent audit of a project’s financial model with the issuance of a respective opinion
- Assisting in applying for government support
- Financial structuring of a PPP-based project
- Developing options for a project’s organisational and legal structure
- Assisting in equity and debt finance raising
- Drafting concession agreements and PPP / Municipal PPP agreements
- Drawing up term sheets and confirming the compliance with banking covenants
- Post-investment project management and monitoring"
Marketing and strategic research for investment projects, deals and companies
- Developing and verifying market / commercial assumptions for a project’s financial model
- Marketing case study for a financier
- Market capacity, competitive environment and project output demand analysing and forecasting
- Conducting a commercial due diligence of a business or an asset
- Analysing a pricing mechanism and forecasting prices of a project’s products
- Developing a go-to-market concept or strategy
- Blueprinting transport and logistics infrastructure to support exports
Developing export strategies (go-to-market strategies)
- Analysing global and national trends
- Analysing target markets
- Exploring opportunities for cross-border cooperation
- Identifying and preparing recommendations for elimination of barriers to exports
- Shelf and price positioning analytics
- Exploring most effective product promotion practices
Developing operating models
- Developing the target organisational structures for export operation
- Developing cross-functional processes
- Outlining the target financial arrangements
- Developing the incentive system and KPIs
- Providing support in addressing legal, customs and tax aspects of export operations
Export acceleration programmes
- Export acceleration programme from idea to execution
- Market segmentation and identification of target partners
- Preparing and managing matching between the programme participants and potential foreign partners
- Expert support during B2B negotiations
- Legal and tax support of first deals
Tax Services for Foreign Investors
- Effective structuring of future operations in Russia from the tax perspective, contract structuring support to mitigate tax risks, structuring of finance raising in Russia and intra-group transactions
- Transfer pricing support and preparing transfer pricing documentation in Russia
- M&A tax support (structuring acquisitions or establishment of Russian subsidiaries including the corporate form choice)
- Consulting on acting with commercial prudence when selecting a counterparty
- Securing tax benefits for investors, structuring public-private partnerships and applying for government support
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Consulting on the effective supply chain and contractual relationship structuring from the customs law perspective.
- Consulting on such important customs issues as customs value, goods origin and customs classification, etc
- Customs compliance assessment, including technical regulations and potential risk areas;
- Analysing eligibility for customs benefits and providing practical assistance in applying them;
- Assisting in obtaining customs resolutions, official explanations, etc.
Tax Monitoring and Tax Risk Management
- Assessing the compliance with tax monitoring (TM) requirements and evaluating the practicability of entering TM
- Preparing an application package for admission and a data mart
- Enhancing and automating internal controls
Accounting and Reporting in Russia
- RAR and/or IFRS/US GAAP accounting (1С, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and other systems)
- Tax accounting
- Preparing all types of reports including financial statements/accounting reports; tax, statistics and management reports; filing reports with appropriate authorities on behalf of clients.
Relationships with Tax Authorities
- Complete support during pre-inspection activities and tax inspections
- Supporting negotiations with representatives of the Federal Tax Service at the central level
- Pre-court and in-court defence in disputes
- Expert support of enquiries to the Russian Ministry of Finance and Federal Tax Service
Legal Services for Investors
- Consulting investors on choosing the best legal mechanisms of entry to the Russian market;
- Supporting the process of forming joint ventures with Russian partners;
- M&A support (structuring acquisitions or establishment of Russian subsidiaries including the corporate form choice);
- Drawing up investment related contracts and negotiations support;
- Structuring intellectual property rights agreements;
- Consulting on regulatory issues (including anti-trust, currency and sanctions laws);
- Consulting on government support measures for investment projects, applying for government grants and benefits for investors, supporting the process of investment project approval by the government authorities.
- Dispute resolution support in courts and commercial arbitration
Legal Support of Deals
- Deal structuring including purchases and sales of businesses and real estate properties (share/asset deals), leases, joint venture creation and business restructuring;
- Providing pre-deal support, preparing and agreeing on key terms and conditions of the deal (term sheets, LOI, MOU);
- Due diligence of the target and assets, identifying transaction restrictions;
- Preparation of transaction documents, negotiations supports and deal closing;
- Supporting an application for a transaction approval by the government.
- Post-deal asset integration services
- Consulting on deal execution
Business Registration and Overall Corporate Support
- General corporate affairs support
Employment and Immigration Law
- Relocation of employees in and outside Russia and employment structuring in Russia
- Work permits
- Immigration control registration
- Support in communications with Russian immigration authorities
Construction and Infrastructure Project Support
- Analysis of opportunities and constraints for an investment project construction (zoning, types of permissible use of land plots)
- Development of contracting strategy and distribution of construction project risks
- Tender procedures support
- Preparation of draft contracts (including using FIDIC forms)
- Consulting on issues arising in the construction project implementation
- Infrastructure project support (choosing the corporate form, support during negotiations with banks and engagement with government authorities)
HR administration
- Preparing HR documents (in hard copy and electronic format)
- Maintaining employment record books of employees (in hard copy and electronic format)
- Preparing staff reports for management purposes
- Preparing and filing staff reports with the government authorities
- Providing assistance in opening an individual personal account with the Russian Pension Fund (SNILS, an individual social security number)
- Restoring HR documents
Payroll services
- Calculating payroll, personal income tax (PIT) and mandatory insurance contributions
- Preparing payroll reports (among other things, for management accounting purposes)
- Preparing RAR and/or IFRS journal entries for payroll and taxes
- Preparing statutory reports to the state authorities
- Communicating with the Social Fund of Russia
- Preparing reports on highly qualified foreign employees
- Providing support in the course of desk and field tax audits
- conducted by the government authorities
- Providing support during audits
Methodology support
- Analysis, unification and standardisation of HR and payroll business processes for purposes of future transformation and modification
- Assisting in optimisation and development of methodology for dedicated functions (including SSC creation)
- Development, implementation, testing and pilot go live support for specialised HR record-keeping and payroll calculation software
- Helping with HR and payroll data migration to a new accounting system
- Providing support when the company enters the tax monitoring programme
Military registration
- Reviewing military service registration documents, restoring such documents
- Registering with a local executive authority and a military registration office at the place of company registration
- Maintaining military registration records on an ongoing basis
Support on occupational safety matters for non-production companies
- Analysing company-specific occupational safety requirements
- Preparing a report with recommendations on occupational safety compliance
- Drafting mandatory occupational safety documents
- Preparing mandatory occupational safety briefings for employees (electronic presentations and/or webinars, training sessions)
Other services
- Conducting training sessions and advising on matters related to HR administration, payroll calculation and taxation as well as reporting and compliance
Corporate taxation
- Conducting training sessions and advising on matters related to HR administration, payroll calculation and taxation as well as reporting and compliance
Employment and immigration law
- Legal support of employee secondment in and outside Russia and employee hiring process structuring
- Obtaining work permits
- Registration for migration control purposes
- Support in communications with Russian migration authorities
Tax compliance and support for physical persons
- Providing tax advice to employees coming to/leaving Russia
- Providing access to the Taxpayer Personal Account online service
- Preparing and filing personal income tax (PIT) returns with the tax authorities
- Preparing tax payment guides and verifying the correctness of payment allocation
- Checking for tax and other notifications issued by the tax authorities for physical persons
- Preparing responses to requests from the tax authorities
- Communicating with the tax authorities on various tax deductions, offsets of taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions or tax refunds
- Analysing the historical tax position to support the fulfilment of the taxpayer’s obligation to accrue and pay tax liabilities in full
- Reconciliation of payments with the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax clearance certificate to confirm the absence of taxes in arrears payable by the taxpayer to the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax residency certificate confirming that the person is a Russian tax resident
- Engaging with the tax authorities on matters related to the transport tax, property tax and land tax
- Assisting in notifying the tax authorities of opening/changing details/closing of accounts with foreign banks and other financial market organisations, preparing and filing annual foreign account cash flow statement/report on changes in the value of assets held on foreign accounts
- Assisting in notifying the Ministry of Internal Affairs of dual citizenship, residence permits or any other documents granting the right to permanent residence outside Russia
- Preparing notifications of participation in foreign companies/structures
- International tax planning for employers and employees
- Providing tax comments upon request (consulting services)
Currency law
- Conducting legal analysis of Russian currency control and counteractions laws and regulations, restrictions and bans on depositing earnings received by physical persons in foreign accounts
Foreign companies in the Russian market
- Assessment of preparedness for external audits
- Audits and reviews of group reporting forms for purposes of the group audit in the component auditor role
- Audit of financial statements of Russian legal entities under Russian Accounting Regulations (RAR) and IFRS® Accounting Standards
- Supporting clients with listing securities on Russian stock exchanges
- Testing the internal controls
- Internal audit services
- Consulting on complex RAR and IFRS accounting
- Advice on accounting, regulatory and statutory compliance matters under RAR and IFRS
- Sustainability services
- IPO diagnostics
- Inventory counts
- Audits of special-purpose financial statements and other attestations of financial and non-financial information
Audit firms
- Licensed in-house audit IT solutions TeDo Audit Code
The business target due diligence and market environment analysis to make a decision on the deal
- Commercial Due Diligence
- Assets and Enterprise Value Analysis
- Financial Due Diligence
- Legal Due Diligence
- Tax Due Diligence
- Integrity and Affiliation Due Diligence
- IT Due Diligence
- HR Due Diligence
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Technical Analysis
Forensic reviews
- Operations monitoring to timely detect and prevent fraud
- Identification of misappropriation of funds, manipulations with reported data, non-arms length transactions and hidden conflicts of interest
- Disputes and litigation support including evidence gathering and damage calculation
- Development of practical recommendations on controls improvement and prevention of identified abuses going forward
Corporate intelligence – Integrity due diligence of business partners
- Locating ultimate beneficiaries and influential decision-makers
- Company and key personnel background checks and sanctions list screening
- Integrity due diligence of local and foreign contractors
- Asset tracing in Russia and abroad
Fraud and corruption risk assessment
- Diagnostics of business processes and operations to identify fraud and corruption risks
- Recommendations on control environment and business process visibility improvement
- Development and implementation of anti-fraud and anti-corruption programmes
Sanctions, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering compliance checks
- Checking compliance with anti-corruption, sanctions and AML/CFT laws
- Development and implementation of compliance programmes
Professional qualifications
- Business Management diploma based on CIMA Rus
- IFRS Specialist diploma based on ACCA DipIFR
- NAFD (National Association of Financial Directors) qualification
Finance and reporting
- IFRS 2025: recent changes and practical aspects
- IFRS and RAS: accounting policy comparison and convergence
- IFRS intensive course
- Finance for non-financial leaders
- Corporate finance
- Management accounting
- Risk management and internal control system
- Financial modelling
Leadership and communication
- Meta-skills for leaders
- Personal effectiveness
- Leadership and situational management
- Effective business communications
- Team design and development
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Digital skills and AI
- Data Science
- Data engineering
- DevOps
- IT system architecture
- Product development
- Agile implementation
- BI, reporting and analytics system implementation
- Process Mining implementation
- Digital analysis for business
- Corporate data warehouses design and data engineering
Employee Performance and Development Support (Staff costs benchmarking. Highlighting applicable best practices)
- We will compare your company staff costs in absolute and relative terms with Russian peers, including salaries, bonuses, travel expenses, voluntary medical insurance, learning, hiring and employment termination costs
- We will pinpoint local best practices applicable to your company enabling you to reduce and flexibly manage people costs
Business Development Operating Model Support (Expert support in putting in place and automating Russian accounting processes)
- We will prepare responses to complex Russian accounting issues
- We will map your chart of accounts and transaction subledgers
- We will propose an approach to RAR automation
Employee Performance and Development Support (Russian business headcount and HR management)
- We will model your business headcount based on utilisation drivers with a view to keep your headcount at optimal levels for years ahead
- We will prepare sets of requirements and competencies for your employees and help to conduct their appraisal
Business Development Operating Model Support (Treasury function evolution)
- We will conduct analysis and benchmarking of Russian banks, define client requirements and select banks that meet the client requirements
- We will prepare a business case for the customer lending system, i.e., an in-house bank vs outsourcing
Employee Performance and Development Support (Organisational structure, KPIs and motivation system to support an ambitious growth strategy of your Russian business)
- We will develop an organisational and functional structure for your Russian business in line with your revenue growth targets and Russian regulatory requirements
- We will help to decompose your ambitious growth targets for Russia to the level of KPIs of executives and employees
- We will develop a motivation system aligned with the Russian mindset that will maximise revenue and profit per rouble of payroll for your Russian business
Business Development Operating Model Support (Demand forecasting and inventory management)
- We will come up with solutions to improve forecasting accuracy and optimise product inventory so as to meet the demand on the one side and prevent overstocking on the other side
Business Development Operating Model Support (Demand forecasting and inventory management)
- We will come up with solutions to improve forecasting accuracy and optimise product inventory so as to meet the demand on the one side and prevent overstocking on the other side
Business Development Operating Model Support (Logistics infrastructure development)
- We will help you to manage your regional expansion in the best way possible
- We will analyse the transport company market and help you to select the provider that fits best for your business
- We will help you to draft a template agreement for warehousing services (including SLA and contractor bonus-malus motivation)
RPA (Key automation expertise)
- Corporate governance, including boards of directors, board committees and other collegial corporate bodies
- Financial function and reporting, including financial and non-financial metrics
- Risk management, internal controls and internal audit
- IT solutions to track and measure relevant ESG metrics
- Enterprise content management, including design of document management and electronic records management systems (ERMS)
- Master data and directory management
RPA (Types of services offered)
- Process digital maturity assessment and automation level benchmarking
- Process automation roadmap and specification development
- Implementation of solutions in selected areas of expertise
- System data migration, including partial migration
ERP
- ERP enabled business transformation programmes
- SAP-1C fast-track packaged solution
- ERP greenfield implementation
- Separation of local subsidiaries from international companies (carve-out)
- ERP support and development
- ERP template roll-out
- Functional architecture development
- Project management and implementation approach development services
- 1C DevOps launching services
- ERP implementation quality assurance
Cybersecurity
- As-Is information security assessment and benchmarking
- Mayak – TeDo product to benchmark the state of information security and IT functions
- Quantification of cyber risks
- Cyber Radar 360 – product and methodology
- Cybersecurity function transformation and strategy
- Cybersecurity architecture
- Regulatory compliance
- Cyber security compliance for financial organisations
- Cyber security culture promotion
- Cyber security process improvements
AI and Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Data engineering
- DevOps
- IT system architecture
- Product development
- Agile implementation
- BI, reporting and analytics system implementation
- Process Mining implementation
- Digital analysis for business
- Corporate data warehouses design and data engineering
Project finance, PPP and government support
- Making a blueprint for a potential project / business idea
- Supporting negotiations with financiers
- Developing / conducting an independent audit of a project’s financial model with the issuance of a respective opinion
- Assisting in applying for government support
- Financial structuring of a PPP-based project
- Developing options for a project’s organisational and legal structure
- Assisting in equity and debt finance raising
- Drafting concession agreements and PPP / Municipal PPP agreements
- Drawing up term sheets and confirming the compliance with banking covenants
- Post-investment project management and monitoring
Marketing and strategic research for investment projects, deals and companies
- Developing and verifying market / commercial assumptions for a project’s financial model
- Marketing case study for a financier
- Market capacity, competitive environment and project output demand analysing and forecasting
- Conducting a commercial due diligence of a business or an asset
- Analysing a pricing mechanism and forecasting prices of a project’s products
- Developing a go-to-market concept or strategy
- Blueprinting transport and logistics infrastructure to support exports
Developing export strategies (go-to-market strategies)
- Analysing global and national trends
- Analysing target markets
- Exploring opportunities for cross-border cooperation
- Identifying and preparing recommendations for elimination of barriers to exports
- Shelf and price positioning analytics
- Exploring most effective product promotion practices
Developing operating models
- Developing the target organisational structures for export operation
- Developing cross-functional processes
- Outlining the target financial arrangements
- Developing the incentive system and KPIs
- Providing support in addressing legal, customs and tax aspects of export operations
Export acceleration programmes
- Export acceleration programme from idea to execution
- Market segmentation and identification of target partners
- Preparing and managing matching between the programme participants and potential foreign partners
- Expert support during B2B negotiations
- Legal and tax support of first deals
Tax Services for Foreign Investors
- Effective structuring of future operations in Russia from the tax perspective, contract structuring support to mitigate tax risks, structuring of finance raising in Russia and intra-group transactions
- Consulting on acting with commercial prudence when selecting a counterparty
Customs Issues and Indirect Taxation
- Consulting on the effective supply chain and contractual relationship structuring from the customs law perspective.
Accounting and Reporting in Russia
- RAR and/or IFRS/US GAAP accounting (1С, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and other systems);
- Tax accounting;
- Preparing all types of reports including financial statements/accounting reports; tax, statistics and management reports; filing reports with appropriate authorities on behalf of clients.
Relationships with Tax Authorities and Tax Disputes
- Complete support during pre-inspection activities and tax inspections;
- Supporting negotiations with representatives of the Federal Tax Service at the central level;
- Pre-court and in-court defence in disputes;
- Expert support of enquiries to the Russian Ministry of Finance and Federal Tax Service.
Legal Support of Deals
- Deal structuring including purchases and sales of businesses and real estate properties (share/asset deals), leases, joint venture creation and business restructuring
- Providing pre-deal support, preparing and agreeing on key terms and conditions of the deal (term sheets, LOI, MOU)
- Due diligence of the target and assets, identifying transaction restrictions
- Preparation of transaction documents, negotiations supports and deal closing
- Supporting an application for a transaction approval by the government
- Post-deal asset integration services
- Consulting on deal execution
Employment and Immigration Law
- Relocation of employees in and outside Russia and employment structuring in Russia
Business Registration and Overall Corporate Support
- Winding up procedures
Other services
- Providing support during company liquidation
- Providing assistance to deposit HR documents to the state archive
Currency law
- Conducting legal analysis of Russian currency control and counteractions laws and regulations, restrictions and bans on depositing earnings received by physical persons in foreign accounts
Tax compliance and support for physical persons
- Providing tax advice to employees coming to/leaving Russia
- Providing access to the Taxpayer Personal Account online service
- Preparing and filing personal income tax (PIT) returns with the tax authorities
- Preparing tax payment guides and verifying the correctness of payment allocation
- Checking for tax and other notifications issued by the tax authorities for physical persons
- Preparing responses to requests from the tax authorities
- Communicating with the tax authorities on various tax deductions, offsets of taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions or tax refunds
- Analysing the historical tax position to support the fulfilment of the taxpayer’s obligation to accrue and pay tax liabilities in full
- Reconciliation of payments with the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax clearance certificate to confirm the absence of taxes in arrears payable by the taxpayer to the tax authorities
- Obtaining a tax residency certificate confirming that the person is a Russian tax resident
- Engaging with the tax authorities on matters related to the transport tax, property tax and land tax
- Assisting in notifying the tax authorities of opening/changing details/closing of accounts with foreign banks and other financial market organisations, preparing and filing annual foreign account cash flow statement/report on changes in the value of assets held on foreign accounts
- Assisting in notifying the Ministry of Internal Affairs of dual citizenship, residence permits or any other documents granting the right to permanent residence outside Russia
- Preparing notifications of participation in foreign companies/structures
- International tax planning for employers and employees
- Providing tax comments upon request (consulting services)
Foreign companies in the Russian market
- Audits and reviews of group reporting forms for purposes of the group audit in the component auditor role
- Audit of financial statements of Russian legal entities under Russian Accounting Regulations (RAR) and IFRS® Accounting Standards;
- Consulting on complex RAR and IFRS accounting issues
- Advice on accounting, regulatory and statutory compliance matters under RAR and IFRS
- Inventory counts
- Audits of special-purpose financial statements and other attestations of financial and non-financial information
The business target due diligence and market environment analysis to make a decision on the deal
- Financial Due Diligence
- Tax Due Diligence
- Legal Due Diligence
Forensic reviews
- Disputes and litigation support including evidence gathering and damage calculation
- Identification of misappropriation of funds, manipulations with reported data, non-arms length transactions and hidden conflicts of interest
Corporate intelligence – Integrity due diligence of business partners
- Asset tracing in Russia and abroad
RPA (Types of services offered)
- System data migration, including partial migration
Cybersecurity
- Regulatory compliance
Marketing and strategic research for investment projects, deals and companies
- Conducting a commercial due diligence of a business or an asset