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Andrey Yanai
Andrey has extensive experience advising fintech ventures and financial entities about all aspects of business and legal activities.
Adv. Andrey Yanai advises companies in relation to a variety of regulatory and commercial topics, licensing procedures, the formation of corporate structures, the AML/CFT rules, entry into new markets, and business collaborations.
Andrey’s clients include a wide range of payment companies, investment houses (portfolio managers, investment marketers and advisors), foreign banks, stock exchange members, trading platforms, companies engaging in algorithmic trading and other entities.
In addition to advising companies in the financial industry, Andrey advises blockchain ventures and gaming companies on a variety of topics, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), DeFi activities, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), tokenization, cross-border activities, payment solutions, technology commercialization and Web 3 activities.
Andrey also counsels private equity funds and hedge funds from the formation and fundraising stages and throughout the fund’s lifetime.
Prominent legal directory The Legal 500 ranks Andrey as a leading attorney in the Investment and Venture Capital Funds practice area.
Prior to joining our firm, Andrey worked at the Bank of Israel and interned at the State Attorney’s Office.
Education:
Tel Aviv University, LL.B. and B.A. in Economics, 2010
Admission:
Israel Bar Association, 2011
Insights & News - Andrey Yanai:
My Forex Funds Lawsuit: Warning to the Proprietary Trading Sector
In May 2025, a US federal court dismissed the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) fraud lawsuit against the proprietary trading company My Forex Funds (MFF). At first glance, this may seem like a resounding legal victory, but a closer analysis reveals a more complex picture.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Russian-Israeli Citizens’ Assets Frozen
Euroclear, a major European clearing house, has frozen about USD 230 billion in Russian assets, including assets of Israelis with Russian citizenship. Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, thousands of sanctions have been imposed on Russia, as a country and on all its citizens. As a result of the sanctions imposed by the European Union, Euroclear froze assets totalling about USD 300 billion. More than five million Russians holding foreign securities, including Israelis of Russian origin, had their assets frozen.