Founder and managing partner of the law firm Kovalev & Partners. Chairman of the board of directors and vice president for development of Bank Yoshkar-Ola. Chairman of the Perspektiva Association of Lawyers, Attorneys and Insolvency Practitioners. Founder and chairman of the Wings of a Dream charitable foundation. This site is about my personal consulting practice and services.
I was born on 17 April 1986 in Neryungri, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). I studied at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, economic geography and regional policy, then obtained a law degree in 2015 and completed postgraduate studies in law in 2025, qualification “Researcher. Teaching researcher”; my dissertation research is on the digitalisation of justice. Alongside that came professional retraining in insolvency administration at the Plekhanov University, in mediation, business valuation, enterprise economics and public administration.
In 2015 I founded the law firm Kovalev & Partners and have run it since as managing partner: corporate disputes and M&A, insolvency and subsidiary liability, tax disputes, digital law. Since 2019 the attorneys of the Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners Moscow Bar Association work with the firm on criminal defence.
Outside the firm I chair the board of directors of Bank Yoshkar-Ola and serve as its vice president for development, chair the Perspektiva association and the Wings of a Dream foundation, and organise and moderate business forums in Mari El: tax, foreign trade, applied AI. I work in Moscow, Yoshkar-Ola and Mariupol. Married, raising two daughters.
Everything on kovalev.su is my personal practice as a sole proprietor: crisis management, mediation, business value and pre-acquisition review, career strategy for executives, recruitment and training. I handle each engagement myself, from the first conversation to the result.
The six tasks of this practice did not come from a textbook. Sales taught me conversation, a store taught me to manage people, a start-up taught me to count money, and law gave me procedure. This is how it came together.
At 16 I entered the Faculty of Geography at Lomonosov Moscow State University and moved from Neryungri to Moscow. I studied economic geography and regional policy.
After my first year I sold on the streets and in offices of Moscow, starting at six in the morning and from scratch. That is when I understood the main thing: I can hold a conversation and close a deal.
I built a website for a company selling welding equipment. Websites and automation have stayed a hobby ever since, one that grew into kovalev.studio.
I joined the electronics retail chain as a sales consultant while studying, rose to administrator and then became the youngest store director in the chain. This is where I first learned to manage people.
I started working as an attorney’s assistant: court cases, documents, the discipline of procedure.
My company went through the Internet Initiatives Development Fund accelerator with cloud time tracking on biometric terminals. The start-up lesson: money runs out before ideas do.
I earned my law degree and founded the law firm I run as managing partner: corporate disputes, bankruptcy, tax disputes, digital law.
Attorneys of the Moscow Bar Association «Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners» began working with the firm.
The insolvency practitioner training programme at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, a mediation course, and retraining in business valuation, enterprise economics, and state and municipal management.
Chairman of the board of directors and vice-president for development of Bank Yoshkar-Ola. In November I ran the first round table «Foreign Trade with the Whole World».
Completed postgraduate studies in law, with research on the digitalisation of justice. Founded the Wings of a Dream charitable foundation. Ran the Mari El Tax Forum and the forum of working AI solutions.
The second Mari El Tax Forum and the launch of kovalev.su: consulting and communications that I handle myself, from the first conversation to the result.
The concept, the programme, the speakers, the stage — from the first meeting with the venue to moderating in the hall.
"The new rules of taxation": the 2026 reform, VAT, transformation of the simplified regimes, tax mediation in disputes with the tax service. Jointly with the Federal Tax Service directorate for Mari El, supported by the regional government.
Hands-on AI adoption for business and public administration: cases from Positive Technologies, MTS Web Services, Avangard AI and the SK Capital AI Centre (VEB.RF group) — for owners, executives and IT directors.
The republic's first tax forum: tax risks and how to reduce them, the tax amnesty, tax control, subsidiary liability on tax service claims.
A round table on foreign trade: cross-border payments, logistics, customs disputes, leasing of import contracts — with experts of the Hermes guild of foreign-trade professionals.
All forums are held at the House of Friendship of Peoples, Yoshkar-Ola; organised by Bank "Yoshkar-Ola" (PJSC). Programmes and materials — olaclub.ru.
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