Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Russia
Lioudmila Mamet
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Kosmodamianskaya Nab 52, Bldg 5
115054 Moscow
Russia
Tel: (7) 495 967 6000
Fax: (7) 495 967 6001
Email: lioudmila.mamet@ru.pwc.com
Website: www.pwc.ru
Lioudmila Mamet is a senior partner and deputy general director of Pricewaterhouse-
Coopers Russia. She is generally recognized as the leading adviser on the Russian tax
system, a reputation grounded in her understanding of both the needs of international
investors and the legal and cultural imperatives of the Russian authorities.
As a former senior government official with 15 years of experience in the Russian
Ministry of Finance, Lioudmila maintains relationships with the Ministry of Finance,
the Federal Tax Service and other state bodies on different levels. She represents the
firm in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and in the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of the Leningrad region, delivering professional opinions on
how to develop the Russian tax system to ensure the stable growth of large and midsized
business in Russia.
While serving as head of the international tax department of the Ministry of Finance,
Lioudmila was responsible for drafting tax legislation for the first joint ventures,
administering tax laws relating to foreign legal entities, foreign individuals and joint
ventures, and for negotiating double tax treaties. Lioudmila has been involved in
negotiations for a great number of tax treaties, and is one of the few true experts in this
area. She has participated in double tax treaty negotiations with the UK, the
Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Japan, the
USA, Malaysia, China, Korea, Brazil, Canada and a number of other countries.
After joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia in 1990, Lioudmila led the firm’s Russian
tax and legal practice for 11 years. She has advised leading Russian enterprises,
multinational corporations and joint ventures on elaborating inbound investment
strategies, assessing the tax implications of reorganization and acquisitions, and managing
negotiations and disputes with the tax authorities. Her experience has ranged from
assisting in negotiations with a local tax office for manufacturing site permits to agreeing
tax holidays, from obtaining orders for lifting arrest on bank accounts to negotiating on
behalf of clients following tax office inspections. Her client list has included large
multinationals and flagship Russian companies from such varied industries as the
consumer goods sector, the pharmaceutical industry, the transportation sector, the oil and
gas sector, banking and insurance.
Lioudmila Mamet is a member of the Russian branch of the International Fiscal
Association. She is also a member of The Committee of 20, a non-profit organization of
the most successful Russian businesswomen. In PricewaterhouseCoopers, Lioudmila
heads the charity committee and leads all charity activities of the firm in Russia.
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