Yulia Solomakhina offers board-level strategic advice in addition to her transactional expertise and possesses broad experience in the regulatory space (including antitrust and foreign strategic investments law), sanctions, privacy and data protection matters. She acts as a special counsel assisting the cross-practice sanctions group in particular in respect of all sanctions matters relating to Russia, including on multiple exits of international businesses from Russia and Russian countersanctions. Yulia is a co-author of Cleary’s Trade Watch providing regular updates on sanctions developments. Yulia joined the firm as an associate in 2002 after working as a stagiaire at Cleary from 2000 to 2001, became partner in 2011, and became special counsel in 2023.