Eleonora LARINA Resume

Professional experience:
November 2010 – present – freelance Interpreter&Translator of the English and French languages, specializing in legal, literary and business translations:
- organizing all the activities related to the working process of an independent professional: searching for clients, self-promotion, dealing and delivering of the orders, controlling financial issues (dealing with the banks and accounting);
- cooperation with a dozen of clients and translations agencies from Russian, Germany, France and Luxembourg;
- the most important projects:
Translation of documents for the European Court of Human Rights (applications and demands, with the volume of 30-40 pages);
Translations of documents of the European Union (Directives of the European Commission, with the volume up to 100 pages);
Considerable experience of working with the Corporate documents of Cyprus companies (Memorandums of Association and Articles of Association);
Large experience of translating different kinds of contracts, both from/into English and French (real estate, contracts for supply, loan and other financial agreements, contracts on provision of services etc.), powers of attorney and warranties;
Translating documents for Foreign Embassies, Notary Certification and Legal Processes;
Translating of documents for business training;
Literary translations of marketing materials, political articles and pieces of modern French and English literature.

April 2010 – September 2010 - CEO Assistant with the functions of Lawyer, Interpreter&Translator and Personal Assistant at LLC STARLETTE PRET-A-PORTER (Moscow) – one of the leading Russian companies in the field of distributing clothes of the French and USA fashion brands in the territory of Russian Federation and CIS countries.
Responsibilities:
- search of the legal information related to the company's activities (labor, civil, corporate and international private law etc.);
- drafting and legal expertise of different bilingual contracts (contracts of supply, distributorship contracts, cooperation agreements, labour contracts, corporate documents);
- interaction with foreign lawyers on different issues (protection and registration of the company's rights abroad, registration of the real estate);
- preparing documents for the submission of claims and complaints;
- administrative support to CEO (schedule, organizing meetings, filing documents);
- interaction with banks and preparing documents for loan application;
- preparation and control of the primary accounting documents;
- interaction with state authorities (tax authorities, customers, courts, notaries), Foreign Embassies, service, transport and logistics organizations on different issues;
- control of delivery of goods;
- assistance at negotiations with foreign partners (interpreting, legal expertise);
- recruitment of personnel (search of candidates, organizing and conducting interviews, )
November 2008 – February 2010 – professor of English, freelance interpreter of English and French, legal translations, interpreting at the meetings, cooperation with the «Clever» linguistic center, the official representative of the British Commission City&Guilds in Russia, assisting at the international English exams City&Guilds and City&Guilds preparatory courses.
August 2007 – November 2008 – Financial Director’s Assistant and lawyer at OJSC «NEFTEMASH»-SAPCON- one of the leading Russian companies in the field of manufacture of oil and gas equipment (average staff number – 840):
Key responsibilities:
As a personal assistant:
- full administrative support to the CEO;
- coordination of activities (schedule handling and tracking, meetings arranging; assisting in daily tasks); finding, collecting and processing the necessary information at the CEO request.
- management of calls and their follow-up;
- incoming/outcoming documentation control and filing;
- document flow coordination;
- business correspondence (e-mail, faxes, courrier shippings);
- handling diverse internal/external inquiries (via phone or email) and direct to appropriate people;
- working at the reception (meeting clients, company managers and other company personnel);
- preparation of meetings minutes;
- maintaining the CEO orders and instructions;
- business travel arrangements (both in Russia and abroad): tickets and hotel booking, transfer, visa support, expenditure accounts for the accounting department as well as providing travel support for foreign partners (hotel booking; visa support; transfers; meals);
Administrative functions:
- organizing coordination between the company’s divisions and departments;
- control of the due execution of the CEO orders and instructions;
- setting up meetings, conferences, negotiations and other activities;
- coordination of the work of the secretaries;
- assisting in HR management: searching for candidates, conducting preliminary interviews;
Interpreter’s functions:
- business correspondence in English;
- contacting foreign companies and organizations (Japan, China, Finland, Bahrain, Austria, Italy, USA) cooperation issues; working with the companies Baker Hughes (USA), Zeman (Austria).
- consecutive interpreting at negotiations (Eng>Ru, Ru>Eng);
- preparing documents in two languages (English and Russian): memorandums, minutes, international contracts on the supply of equipment, cooperation agreements;
- translating business plans, financial documents, tender documentation;
- preparing documents in two languages for the international certification API;
- working out the English version of the company’s site.
Lawyer’s functions:
- collecting and analyzing legal information (including international private law) at the CEO request;
- drafting (in two languages) and legal expertise of the civil contracts (sale contracts, rental and lease contracts,contracting agreements, labour contracts, provision of services contracts, corporate documents);
- cooperation with the governmental authorities (Passports and Visas Services, Foreign Ambassies, Migration Service, the Federal Service of Court Bailiffs).
January 2003 - August 2007 - legal consultant in a real estate agency «Dom-2000» (key responsibilities: drafting and legal expertise of different contracts in the field of real estate, consulting clients (tax, family, civil and housing law), handling complaints;
2005 – July – cooperation as an interpreter of English with OJSC «Saratovenergogeophysics» (preparation of a contract with the Indian company «Shivani»); July-August – lawyer’s assistant at Lower Volga Region Science and Research Institute for Geology and Geophysics.
2004 September – cooperation as an interpreter of English with OJSC «Fat Producing Plant» (preparation of a contract with a Swiss company).

Interpreter&Translator of the English and French languages; Lawyer (Specialization - International Private Law).

ability to work independently and under pressure (including situations going out of the common run); excellent oral and written communication skills, including working with large audiences; excellent memory and ability to work with much information, high level of responsibility.

Russian – native language, excellent speaking and writing skills;
English - fluent (both oral and writing), business and legal terminology, December 2008 – international exam City&Guilds (5 level, advanced).
French – fluent, regular communication with the authentic speakers, December 2009 – international exam in French DALF (Diplome approfondi de langue francaise) (level ?1) , since 2003 – membership in Alliance Francais and regular participation in its cultural activities and events;
Italian - intermediate level, experience of communicating to the native speakers;
Spanish and Greek – in the process of learning with the aim of acquiring a good command in these languages.

2001-2006 – Saratov State University, the Department of Foreign languages, specialization – English philology (English language and English literature). Second language – French. Interpreter , translator. Diploma with honours.
2001-2007 – Saratov State Law Academy (specialisation – international private law). Lawyer. Diploma with honours.
2001-2007 – Saratov State Law Academy (specialisation – international private law). Lawyer. Diploma with honours.

My profession - learning foreign languages and law (particularly, corporate law of Cyprus companis), fitness (dancing, yoga, pilates), travelling

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