21.05.2025
14:00–15:30
Director and Officer Liability: The Development of Judicial Practice in a New Reality and Tools for Risk Protection
Congress Centre, conference hall D4
How have judicial practices for holding directors and officers liable in Russia developed? How effective are the existing insurance mechanisms at protecting the interests of executives and how should they be improved right now? Is the legal system mature enough to resolve liability insurance disputes? How do political risks influence changes to underwriting? What is the outlook for creating an integrated platform solution for unified risk assessment and developing new tools to protect the interests of the members of governing bodies?
Moderator
Victoria Burkovskaya
Co-Chairman, Center for Public Procedures "Business Against Corruption"
Panellists
Ivan Eremeev
Head of Directors' Liability Insurance Practice, RC Insurance Broker
Tatyana Komarova
Managing Director – Director of Operational Directorate, Sberbank Insurance
Dmitry Kuptsov
Partner, Advocate, Head of International Arbitration Practice, Partner of Dispute Resolution and Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice, ALRUD Law Company
Roman Sadovskiy
Advisor, Kucher Kuleshov Maximenko & Partners
Dmitry Shishkin
Head of Liability Insurance Department, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company
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Victoria Burkovskaya
Co-Chairman, Center for Public Procedures "Business Against Corruption"
Viktoria Burkovskaya has a post-doctoral degree in Law and is one of the leading experts in Criminal Law, majoring in business-related crimes, criminal trial and compliance with anti-corruption law.
Ms. Burkovskaya provides consult in personal data protection, licensing cryptographic activity and cryptographic services.
Between 2006 and 2009 Ms. Burkovskaya held the position of Senior Research Associate at General Prosecutor’s Office Academy, where she prepared legal opinion on various business-related criminal cases, including illegal business operations, money laundering, smuggling, tax evasion etc., as well as crimes against public order and policies, cases tried by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and cases to extradition of Russian citizens.
Viktoria Burkovskaya plays an active role in reforming criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. She’s a member of the Criminal and Commercial Court Working Group (under International Commercial Court in Paris) and the Co-Chairperson of Business Against Corruption (Center of Public Procedures under Delovaya Rossiya). She has authored over 80 works in law journals. Ms. Burkovskaya is a Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Process and Forensics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where she teaches legal psychology and forensics.
Viktoria Burkovskaya is an alumni of Voronezh State Teacher Training University (1996, cum laude), Moscow State Law Academy (2002, cum laude), post-graduate program of the Research Institute for Legality Consolidation and Public Order under General Prosecutor’s Office (2000) and post-doctoral program of the Management Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (2005).
In 2015 the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation awarded Ms. Burkovskaya with a Certificate of Merit. In 2016 Boris Titov, the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights, awarded Viktoria Burkovskaya with a Certificate of Merit for her active pro bono work to defend entrepreneurs’ rights.
Ms. Burkovskaya is a member of Moscow City Bar.
Ms. Burkovskaya provides consult in personal data protection, licensing cryptographic activity and cryptographic services.
Between 2006 and 2009 Ms. Burkovskaya held the position of Senior Research Associate at General Prosecutor’s Office Academy, where she prepared legal opinion on various business-related criminal cases, including illegal business operations, money laundering, smuggling, tax evasion etc., as well as crimes against public order and policies, cases tried by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and cases to extradition of Russian citizens.
Viktoria Burkovskaya plays an active role in reforming criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. She’s a member of the Criminal and Commercial Court Working Group (under International Commercial Court in Paris) and the Co-Chairperson of Business Against Corruption (Center of Public Procedures under Delovaya Rossiya). She has authored over 80 works in law journals. Ms. Burkovskaya is a Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Process and Forensics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where she teaches legal psychology and forensics.
Viktoria Burkovskaya is an alumni of Voronezh State Teacher Training University (1996, cum laude), Moscow State Law Academy (2002, cum laude), post-graduate program of the Research Institute for Legality Consolidation and Public Order under General Prosecutor’s Office (2000) and post-doctoral program of the Management Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (2005).
In 2015 the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation awarded Ms. Burkovskaya with a Certificate of Merit. In 2016 Boris Titov, the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights, awarded Viktoria Burkovskaya with a Certificate of Merit for her active pro bono work to defend entrepreneurs’ rights.
Ms. Burkovskaya is a member of Moscow City Bar.
Ivan Eremeev
Head of Directors' Liability Insurance Practice, RC Insurance Broker

Tatyana Komarova
Managing Director – Director of Operational Directorate, Sberbank Insurance

Dmitry Kuptsov
Partner, Advocate, Head of International Arbitration Practice, Partner of Dispute Resolution and Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice, ALRUD Law Company
Roman Sadovskiy
Advisor, Kucher Kuleshov Maximenko & Partners
Dmitry Shishkin
Head of Liability Insurance Department, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company