Elena Koltsova is the founder of Family Office Limited, a Malta-based provider of professional and family services that guides its high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients through banking, immigration, legal and tax systems.
Prior, Koltsova worked for several international companies in Malta and abroad. She has practiced corporate law, fiduciary law, contract law, anti-money laundering law and shipping law.
Koltsova has managed a portfolio of high net worth clients, acting as a director of the companies and participating in management and administration of their companies. These companies involved pharmaceutical business, real estate and yacht ownership. She has collaborated with lawyers, tax advisors, local and international banks, property management companies, auditors in Malta, Russia, the United Kingdom, Bailiwick of Jersey, Isle of Man and Cyprus. She has also implemented international corporate structures in Malta, British Virgin Islands, Russia and other jurisdictions. She also has been involved in setting up yacht-owning structure, and management and administration for shipping companies in South France and Monaco.
Early in her career, she worked for the city administration of Arkhangelsk, Russia, providing legal support to the city’s mayor, the local administration and government. There, she drafted legal notices and laws, consulted on aspects of Russian law and represented the administration in court. Later, Koltsova led the legal department for Belomor Freight Co., a shipping business in 2004.
She formed Family Office Limited in 2014. The office focusses on citizenship, residency and tax residency, corporate and trustee services, yachting and aviation, consulting and risk management, and exclusive real estate, legal and family services.
Koltsova graduated with honors from Pomor State University in Arkhangelsk in Russia, with a degree in law, in 1998. In 2000, she completed a program in management, business administration and data management from the All-Russian State Finance-Economic Institute in Moscow. She earned her doctoral degree in law at Kazan State University in Kazan, Russia in 2006. She has also has earned certifications in trust law and management, anti-money laundering.