Tatyana A. Mikhailova's practice focuses on international structured finance transactions, political risk insurance, microfinance and international arbitration. She has participated in the document preparation, negotiation and closing for a number of U.S. Export-Import Bank asset-based financing of Boeing, Gulfstream, Sikorsky and other commercial aircraft for airlines in Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Ms. Mikhailova was part of the legal team that successfully represented a joint venture between German and U.S. investors in an UNCITRAL arbitration against the Government of Belize relating to the wrongful termination of a concession agreement for the privatization of the international airport in Belize.
Prior to joining robert wray PLLC, Ms. Mikhailova served as Eurasia Regional Counsel at FINCA International, a major international microfinance organization providing financial services to the working poor in 23 countries. She was responsible for preparing legal feasibility studies for, and advising on, asset acquisition, greenfield projects, and transformation of non-profit entities into locally regulated banking and financial institutions in the Eurasia region. She also represented FINCA's parent company and its affiliates in the U.S. and Eurasia in negotiating numerous multimillion dollar financing facilities with commercial and multinational lenders and investors.
Ms. Mikhailova also served as Director and Assistant Counsel for Europe & Asia at a Washington, DC based international development firm where she was primarily responsible for a portfolio of financial services projects funded by USAID, USDA, EBRD, and ADB. She has interned with the Office of the General Counsel at the EBRD in London, the Mission of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations in New York, and a marketing firm in Kleve, Germany.
Ms. Mikhailova received her LL.M. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Practice Diploma in Corporate Law from the College of Law of England and Wales, a J.D. equivalent Law Degree with Highest Honors from the Belarusian State University, and a B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota, where she double majored in Political Science and International Relations (magna cum laude). She is qualified to practice law in the State of New York and in Belarus.