Damir Zinnatullin
Damir has solid experience of advising on international and Russian taxation, transfer pricing, due diligence and other routine tax issues for companies from the telecommunications sector, the IT sector, chemical industry, automotive industry, agriculture, FMCG, and other sectors.
Damir’s professional competencies also include providing tax assistance in the course of projects dealing with the designing of international structures that provide for the geographic expansion of the commercial model of companies and ensure proper legal protection and the monetisation of IP.
In June 2017 and April 2018 Damir completed an internship course in the DLA Piper offices in Paris and Madrid on how to make use of international holding, financial and IP structures for tax planning purposes.
Damir has been actively involved in tax support for various pro bono projects, including:
Damir’s professional competencies also include providing tax assistance in the course of projects dealing with the designing of international structures that provide for the geographic expansion of the commercial model of companies and ensure proper legal protection and the monetisation of IP.
In June 2017 and April 2018 Damir completed an internship course in the DLA Piper offices in Paris and Madrid on how to make use of international holding, financial and IP structures for tax planning purposes.
Damir has been actively involved in tax support for various pro bono projects, including:
- assisting the Theatre of Nations on a broad spectrum of tax issues arising in connection with the organisation and the first staging of a play by Peter Morgan called The Audience;
- assisting Nochlezhka, a charitable foundation that provides personal and legal aid and support to the homeless (an aid organisation for the homeless in St Petersburg and Moscow), on a broad spectrum of tax issues.
Education
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Diploma in International Financial Reporting, 2016
St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Master of Economics, 2012
Pierre Mendès-France University, Bachelor of Economics, 2010
St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Bachelor of Economics, 2010
St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Master of Economics, 2012
Pierre Mendès-France University, Bachelor of Economics, 2010
St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Bachelor of Economics, 2010
Languages
English
Russian
Russian
Summary profile
Experience
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Advising an international mapping company, an industry leader, in connection with the formation and fine-tuning of the target’s global structure (after the investor’s entry) for carrying out activities in target jurisdictions
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Advising an IT company, a world leader in developing technology for hacking aging and complex diseases, in connection with the restructuring of their liabilities, IP holding structure and preparations for a potential deal with a new investor
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Advising a private investment group on the development of an international IP and holding structure for the development, proper legal protection and international commercialisation of technology for managing and compensating voltage drops in the power supply system
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Advising a high jewellery art house that develops and advances innovative technologies for creating jewellery based on laboratory-grown diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds on the development of an international structure and its contractual implementation from a tax perspective
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Advising a group of managers (one of the biggest and most modern pulp and paper mills in the CIS) in connection with the tax analysis and alignment of corporate relations as part of asset holding
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Advising a gamedev market leader on the development of a corporate, IP holding, operating and contractual structure for the international development and commercialisation of a mobile/online game and for the reconfiguration of already implemented structure due to a change in the global market environment
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Advising a private client on the purchase of a yacht from an Italian shipyard and on the structuring of the asset holding and operation of the yacht in UAE and EU waters
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Advising a global company that develops, promotes and commercialises an IT service for planning and organising business trips in connection with the entry and scaling of the Service on the markets of the EU, the Middle East and South-East Asia
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Advising a private client on the de-offshoring of the ownership structure of business units and assets, as well as on the restructuring of ownership and liquidation of separate foreign companies
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Advising a major producer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in the CIS on the re-configuration of an international supply and sales system
Publications
Presentations
Damir regularly delivers speeches at seminars and conferences on tax matters.
- Speaker on “Certain tax aspects of building and operating supply chains through a trader” at the Annual Tax Conference organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (2025)
- Speaker on “Organising import and export in the current economic situation when working through a trader. Key tax and customs aspects” at the “Results of 2024: Laws and Business” conference organised by Kommersant (2025)
Career
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2022-present
Senior Associate, Denuo -
2016-22
Associate, Senior Associate, DLA Piper (St Petersburg) -
2013-16
Big Four accounting firms (St Petersburg)
