Dmitry Shumkov

Who is Dmitry Shumkov?

Dmitry Vladimirovich Shumkov is a Russian lawyer.

Laureate of the Lawyer of the Year 2012 – the most respected Russian judicial award. The award was founded by the Russian Presidential Decree dated on October 8, 2009 №1129 "About the top legal award "Lawyer of the Year".

Chairperson of the Council of the "Center of Legal Initiatives". The Center was established in accordance with the Assignment of the President of the Russian Federation, dated on July 17, 2012 №1796, on the basis of the leading academic facilities in the field of law: Department of Law of the Moscow State University, Department of Law of the St. Petersburg State University, Moscow State Academy of Law, named after О. Е. Kutafin, the Urals State Academy of Law. The "Center of Legal Initiatives" is entrusted with the task of organizing selection and generalization of ideas for improving the new version of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation with a monthly report submitted to the Russian President covering the feasibility of their implementation.

In 2005, Pravokom and Yurakademia: Kutafin & Partners law firms formed a Law Group, where D. V. Shumkov became the Partners Committee Chairman. Law Group was the first Russian law firm to get the rights for the international transactions support of the Russian Government, including legal consulting on: government securities placement in Russian and international capital markets; communications between Russian Finance ministry and international ranking agencies; issuing government export and financial loans to foreign borrowers; settlement of debt claims the Russian Government has got to the foreign borrowing states; managing sovereign wealth funds of the Russian Federation.