Jamison Firestone

Managing Partner

FD Advisory LLP

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Summary

Jamison Firestone is a graduate of Tulane Law School, class of 1991 and a member of the New York Bar. He founded the first independent foreign law firm in Russia and lived in Moscow for eighteen years. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia for six years, where he lobbied both the US and Russian governments for changes to improve trade and business in Russia.

Mr. Firestone has extensive experience structuring foreign companies and joint ventures taking into consideration complex issues of multi- jurisdictional taxation. He frequently advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, shareholder disputes, as well fraud and asset recovery. He also coordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation.

Mr. Firestone has extensive experience structuring foreign companies and joint ventures taking into consideration complex issues of multi- jurisdictional taxation. He frequently advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, shareholder disputes, as well fraud and asset recovery. He also coordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation.

In 2007 Mr. Firestone’s original Russian law firm exposed the largest tax fraud perpetrated against the Russian Government. During the last fifteen years Mr. Firestone has spent considerable effort advising on issues of how to effectively sanction dictatorships and kleptocracies and what to do with the frozen funds of kleptocratic regimes.

In addition to advising clients on legal matters, Mr. Firestone is often retained to bring public and government attention to cases which would not be resolved fairly in the absence of such attention. Many of his cases involve multi-jurisdictional investigatory work, either to find assets or to get a clear picture of the real parties involved in a transaction.

Mr. Firestone is the author of numerous articles and has been featured on the BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, SKY, and in several documentaries. He frequently advises on matters of litigation strategy business strategy, and risk.