Introduction

International Legal Counsels PC (d/b/a femida®.us) is headquartered in Alexandria, VA (USA) with affiliated offices in Washington, D.C., Paris and Moscow. From its very inception ILC has been designed as a truly international law firm joining the interrelated and complementary skills and expertise of its attorneys in its principal practice areas and geographic locations. Being both practical and timely in our approach, ILC's main principle is to provide quality legal services in a cost-efficient manner while being responsive to the clients' needs.

So what's our role and what can we do for your business? First and foremost, we advise client on how to resolve legal issues while taking advantage of business opportunities. Therefore, the types of transactions in which we have significant hands-on experience, may also serve you as a roadmap of the issues that your business endeavor may still need to address, whether your business in the United States, Western Europe or the Russian Federation. More...

As an integral combination of our attorneys' practices and expertise, possesses a wealth of experience in its focus areas of legal practice:

Corporate practice includes both the corporate governance and transactional aspects and focuses on representation of domestic and international clients in cross-border corporate transactions, including complex corporate structuring, establishing and maintaining legal entities, mergers and acquisitions, and financial transactions.

Technology practice focuses on cross-border technology transfers in the areas of telecommunication, entertainment and information security; multi-jurisdictional corporate issues related to technology; off-shore software development; complex distribution and licensing agreements; and the issues arising from commercializing and marketing in the West of the technologies developed in the former Soviet Union. In addition, our clients avail themselves of International Legal Counsels PLLC's (Washington, DC) patent practice.

Legal Reform Consulting concentrates on providing counsel and legal consulting services to governmental and private entities in connection with legal reforms and training projects in the transition economies.

We believe that our approach to legal practice and problem solving creates a synergy of the best notions of the legal profession with efficiency, modernization and entrepreneurial spirit. "Bridging the gaps" is not just the firm's motto and philosophy but it is also a reminder of the acute problems faced in the evolving global legal environment. While the technological revolution and market reforms have been recognized by many as the world's driving forces at the turn of the century, East and West continues to face numerous gaps in their cultural, political and social approaches. The respective legal frameworks, the very foundation of any successful economic development and cooperation, are moved even further apart creating unnecessary discrepancies or misunderstandings and causing the failure of numerous positive initiatives and projects. Our attorneys' multi-cultural background and our hands-on domestic legal experience is a unique combination specifically designed to bridge these legal gaps. More...