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Arina Shulga is a corporate and securities partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. 

Arina has extensive experience representing startups in corporate formation, corporate governance, capital raising, and intellectual property licensing transactions; issuers in private securities offerings; angel investors and VC funds in making investments; crowdfunding portals; emerging investment managers in corporate formation and investment fund formation, including hedge funds, real estate funds, and VC/private equity funds; and participants in the digital asset economy.  Before co-founding Ross & Shulga PLLC and a predecessor firm Shulga Law Firm PC, Arina was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.  At Cleary, Arina represented a wide range of clients, from individuals and startups to the Fortune 500 companies across a spectrum of industries, including financial services, banking, technology, fashion, entertainment, and health care.  Arina advised public companies on preparation and filing of periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission; represented investors, issuers, underwriters and selling stockholders in private and registered securities offerings, including IPOs, convertible debt offerings, high yield debt offerings, and A/B exchange offers; advised limited partners in private equity fund investments; advised companies on compliance with contractual obligations, internal restructurings and joint ventures; and represented companies and their advisors in tender offers, consent solicitations and leveraged buy-out transactions.

Arina is active in the New York City startup community and is a member of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. She also teaches Entrepreneurial Law at Fordham Law School.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP is a full-service firm with approximately 110 lawyers and three offices in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York.  The Firm’s lawyers routinely handle complex issues in the areas of:

• Corporate and business transactions, including M&A and public company work
• Trusts and estates
• Labor and employment
• Immigration
• Tax
• Real estate
• Non-profit corporations
• Litigation
• Intellectual property (except for patents)

MSK has particular in-depth expertise in the areas of entertainment, motion picture financing, video gaming, and esports.