Jon Hellevig

Jon Hellevig is working with practical legal matters advising foreign investors in Russia and is a co-founder and partner-in-charge at the law firm Hellevig, Klein & Usov

In the late ‘90s Jon Hellevig established Avenir in Moscow which consisted of a legal advisory, accountancy service and executive search. Today these companies have evolved to become the Avenir Group of companies with the law firm Hellevig, Klein & Usov; Avenir Corporate, accounting and business administration outsourcing; and Avenir Executive Search. Mr Hellevig has been actively working on the Russian market since 1990 in various areas of corporate law and financial administration.

Hellevig deals in particular with investment consulting, corporate governance and investor protection issues. Hellevig’s field of specialization is Russian tax law. He is also active in scientific work on the philosophy of law and presently involved in a study of the coming about of Russian law and rule-by-justice issues in Russia.

Jon Hellevig has published several books on Russian tax and labor laws in addition to contributing with white papers on various topics in Russian law. He regularly lectures at international scientific and investor seminars on these topics.

Before entering the Russian market he worked at banks in Finland, first in legal positions, but later in more finance related and managerial positions. Jon has a University degree in Law from the University of Helsinki, Finland (1985). In 1998 he acquired an MBA with the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et des Chaussees and University of Bristol Graduate School of International Business with KPMG European Training Center, 1998