The Cover Letter To My Potential Recruiter
December 28, 2015
Dear Recruiter:
In response to your advertised position of a Corporate Lawyer, I am submitting for your perusal the attached resume as well as my qualifications and aspirations summarized below.
Before my move to the United States in 2012, I practiced law as a licensed member of the Moscow Chamber of Barristers for more than 15 years. During that time, I focused on a wide range of business and corporate law including international business transactions, company formation, and tax planning issues. As one of three partners in a law firm, my colleagues and I facilitated various legal transactions crossing over from one legal system to another. In concordance with our firm’s mission statement “to approach transactions holistically, that is with a global view under local consideration,” our firm successfully engaged in numerous mergers and acquisitions outside of Russia.
One of the acquisitions concerned a Siberian Dairy Production by an international holding company. The transaction itself consisted of a full range of legal services from due diligence in corporate finance, asset reorganization, title clearance, filing and disclosure to closing. Despite a tight deadline, we completed all necessary proceedings on schedule and within budget. In the end, both seller and buyer benefitted equally from our services, i.e. our asset valuation on the one hand and an acquisition clear and free of burden on the other hand. Additionally, the financial transaction was devised in such a way that the seller’s tax responsibilities were minimized and the buyer assumed an already reorganized corporate structure.
As a member of the Bar Association of Russia, I rendered both paid and pro-bono services to clients in various civil disputes, mediations, and trials. In light of frequently changing laws in Russia, since the country’s transition to the free market in 1990, I produced a lot of opinions on new legislations, their compliance to the core code and constitution, as well as their application in business. Over time, matching a foreign entity’s goal to conduct business in Russia with its local, regional, and state laws, as well as providing a legal support in international business for Russian clients, became my specialty. Hence, I would like to help facilitating mergers and acquisitions while optimizing corporate structuring and financial transactions for clients in the US, Russia, and worldwide.
Necessitating both, interoffice teamwork and client collaboration, one of my earlier cases, albeit small in scale, stands out. It required innovative resolution skills to satisfy a divorcing couple no longer trusting each other with the profit dissemination from the sale of their home and assets. While Russian legislation at that time did not spell out an escrow option, I applied this option in American Law to Russian conditions. Thus accommodating both parties, we completed all transactions smoothly and ahead of schedule.
Although the laws in Russia keep changing, I have stayed abreast those changes in corporate law but since shifted my focus to American corporate law aspiring to a legal career in the United States. As a partner of InViaJuris law offices, I was charged with task areas similar to the ones of a Perspective International Law Firm. Servicing Russian clients internationally, I provided business solutions and drafted legal opinions for mergers and acquisitions, corporate tax as well as estate planning. Hence, I would like to join your team of lawyers around the globe to deliver excellent and efficiently legal services at a fair price.
While I graduated from the Moritz School of Law at the Ohio State University only recently and am now preparing for the Ohio Bar Exam, I hope to receive your favorable consideration and look forward to speaking with you in detail about the position including the respective State Bar Exam to meet your requirements and expectations.
Sincerely,
Roman Kretov
Enclosure/Attachment: Resume, Transcript