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Natalia Momot
FirstCOUNSELLOR

Education

 

​LLM, City of Hong Kong 2016

LLB (Hons) Far Eastern Federal University, 2008

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Profile

 

Natalia is trained both as a civil law and common lawyer to provide in-house legal support to Fintech sector clients of FirstCOUNSEL.

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She has wide-ranging experience across many subsectors of the FinTech sector, including blockchain, peer-to-peer lending, robo-advisory, payments and remittances, personal finance and crypto-currency. Natalia focusses on “business-as-usual” commercial contracts, compliance and business model advisory. Prior to joining FirstCOUNSEL, Natalia worked for several years as sole in-house legal counsel and compliance officer for a crowd-funding P2P platform in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her work included advising on all legal and compliance issues of the business of the company, including evaluating the legal framework of the business, assessment of legal risks in cross-border receivables financing, advising on regulatory compliance, AML/CFT and licensing in Hong Kong and Singapore.

 

Before moving to Hong Kong, Natalia was a practicing lawyer in several regions of the Russian Federation for over 10 years, specializing in corporate and commercial practice, as well as commercial litigation and litigation strategy.

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