CV
Co-founder of Legal Machines and postgraduate researcher in corporate law at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Experience
Legal Machines
Co-founder, CEO & Technical Lead
Aug 2026–present
LegalTech startup.
- Lead product and technical development, including system architecture, legal reasoning workflows and evaluation.
- Building LM Workspace to keep a legal matter’s documents, research, AI conversations and saved work together on a lawyer’s computer. Current work includes support for local and external models, traceable sources and review of proposed changes to files.
Moscow Legal Center Bar Association
Legal Counsel
Apr–Aug 2026
- Researched corporate, intellectual property and investment law for the association’s Asia-focused work on cross-border business matters.
- Prepared comparative legal memoranda and organized source materials to assess proposed business arrangements and possible legal remedies.
DKS Partners
Founding Partner Jan–Jun 2026
Co-founded Dzyza Kim Shakhmurzaev and Partners, an independent legal research and advisory partnership.
- Researched corporate, intellectual property and investment law for prospective cross-border projects involving Asian jurisdictions.
- Assessed legal requirements for market entry, licensing and commercial arrangements; prepared research memoranda and materials for project planning.
- Reviewed corporate records and supporting documents, built factual chronologies and identified evidence gaps for legal analysis.
The projects remained at the research and preparation stage. In June 2026, the team and its Asia-focused work moved to Moscow Legal Center Bar Association.
Education
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Law
Postgraduate program in Civil Law
2026–present (expected 2029)
Doctoral dissertation (in progress): Information Asymmetry in Corporate Relationships.
Research in corporate and business law, with particular attention to information, incentives, transaction costs and empirical methods.
Master’s Degree in Law (Company Law), with honors
2024–2026
GPA: 4.80/5.00
Thesis: Shareholders’ and Creditors’ Information Right in Corporate Restructuring and Liquidation.
Examined information disclosure, conflicts of interest and the protection of shareholders and creditors during corporate restructuring and liquidation.
Bachelor’s Degree in Law, with honors
2020–2024
GPA: 4.95/5.00
Thesis: The Principle of Continuity of Participation in the Restructuring of Legal Entities.
Examined whether corporate participation must survive a restructuring, relating membership rights to theories of corporate personality and comparing Russian law with European and U.S. approaches.
Research & Publications
Research interests: corporate law, economic analysis of law, legal information, institutional design and computational approaches to legal research.
Selected publication
“Ways of Legal Regulation and Possible Interpretations of the Restructuring of a Legal Entity in Russia and the UK.” President Law Journal, no. 2 (9), 2022, pp. 20–30.
Examined how theories of corporate personality influence restructuring rules in Russian and English law, with a hypothesis linking different approaches to the reception of Roman law.
Corporate law research, Moscow State University
Contributor to periodic reviews of developments in corporate law prepared by the university’s corporate-law academic community. Analyzed legislation, judicial practice and doctrinal materials.
Teaching & University Leadership
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Law
Head of the Education Commission, Student Council
2025–2026
Led the Student Council’s work on academic and educational matters. Represented student interests, coordinated educational initiatives and worked with faculty representatives on the organization of legal education.
Course Coordinator & Teaching Fellow, Roman Law
Sep 2023–May 2024
Coordinated the Faculty of Law’s pre-university Roman Law course for high-school students. Supervised the teaching team, developed and organized course materials, maintained common teaching standards and taught classes.
Teaching Fellow, Roman Law
Sep 2022–May 2023
Taught Roman private law to high-school students in the same pre-university program.
Awards
White & Case / DLA Piper Legal Ethics Essay Competition - Winner
Feb 2022
English-language essay on the responsibilities of legal professionals toward society, including access to justice, duties to clients and professional self-government.
Languages
Russian - native
English - professional working proficiency
German - basic