Aleinikov&Partners Law Firm became the legal advisor on the tax issues of one of the leading world cybersport organizations - Virtus.pro.
The team of Aleinikov&Partners on this project included partner Dmitry Matveyev and associate Victoria Tarasenko.
Virtus.pro is an eSports organisation that was founded in 2003 as a Counter-Strike team. After the reboot in 2011, Virtus.pro has grown into a multigaming club competing for the first places in the most popular eSports titles on the world’s largest championships. In November 2015, the team got an investment of over $100,000,000 USD from Alisher Usmanov's USM Holdings.
Aleinikov & Partners advised Open Line, a Minsk-based leasing company, on issuance of blockchain bonds. Token sale is going to be conducted on the FINSTORE.BY investment platform, which is operated by a subsidiary company of Belvnesheconombank (Bank BelVEB)
Aleinikov & Partners advised StringersHub, a developer of a marketplace that connects professional content creators with the global media outlets, on its $500K seed round from a group of angel investors, members of Angels Band (Belarus), and both venture capital firms Insta Ventures (Cyprus) and Starta Ventures (USA)
Aleinikov & Partners has been advising the Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus (DBRB) in drafting a regulatory legal act aimed at amendment of the Belarusian legislation to entitle the DBRB to conduct venture capital financing