Artem Afanasiev

Overview

Gender
male

Artem heads the Legal Affairs Department and GR function at Ozon since early 2020, where he is responsible for supporting and overseeing all of the Group's existing and new business projects.

Artem began his legal career at the British law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London, Moscow) and went on to join the US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Moscow, New York, London).

In 2014, Artem joined the Mercury Group as Director for Corporate Governance and Compliance at the Megapolis Trade Company (Moscow, Amsterdam). In 2016, he was promoted to lead the legal, compliance and M&A functions at the Russian food retailer Dixy Group – another core asset of the Mercury Group, where he also served as Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and was a member of the Board of Directors.

In 2019, as the General Counsel to the major Russian automobile group AVTOVAZ, Artem facilitated the acquisition of the GM-AVTOVAZ car manufacturer and managed a full audit of the entire consolidated legal function of the AVTOVAZ group.

Artem is consistently included in the GC Powerlist (formerly the Corporate Counsel 100), published by The Legal 500. He is a member of the Association of Antimonopoly Experts of Russia and a member of the Expert Council on Foreign Investment under the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia.

Artem is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Law Faculty at Sorbonne University (Paris).

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Artem Afanasiev has 1 current jobs including Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Government Relations at Ozon , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Ozon Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Government Relations Jan 1, 2020 Detail