About Yourshield

High-risk is our practice, not our exception.

Yourshield Consultants is an operations partner for founders, companies and families building in regulated industries — and for the international entrepreneurs, startups and Cyprus businesses around them. We work across three departments: Licensing, Cyprus Immigration and Accounting, with payment solutions and banking support folded into Accounting.

What makes us different

One account lead. One Slack channel. One invoice.

Regulated businesses often pay four to six separate firms for things that all affect each other — formation, licensing, banking, tax, accounting, audit, immigration. They rarely talk to each other. We designed Yourshield to be the one team that owns it.

Senior people on every file

The partner you meet on the diagnostic call is on the engagement to the end — no handoff to a junior after sign-off.

Fixed scopes, not hourly billing

Stage 1 diagnostic is fixed. Stage 2 scope is fixed once the diagnostic is complete. Recurring work runs on a monthly retainer.

Relationships, not cold applications

For licensing, banking and immigration we engage pre-application where the regulator or counterparty allows it. Bank and regulator decisions are still theirs to make.

Pre-qualification before engagement

We pre-assess each file before taking on the work. Where we don't believe the timeline or outcome is realistic, we say so — and where useful, we point you at a firm we'd trust to handle it.

Ongoing operations by design

Most clients who engage us for licensing continue with us into ongoing accounting, audit, renewals and banking reviews — by choice, not by lock-in.

Bilingual EN/RU

Engagement documentation and reporting are delivered in English or Russian, depending on what suits the client and the operating jurisdiction.

The team

Operators who've been on the other side of the deal.

Our partners have launched regulated products, worked with bank compliance teams and structured cross-border operations. We understand how banks and regulators think because we've been in the room.

Rafail Liiv

Rafail Liiv

Managing Partner

Leads the firm, partner relationships and complex regulated-industry files across licensing, banking and corporate structuring.

Ludmila Cotrut

Ludmila Cotrut

Chief of Quality Control

Leads banking and EMI relationships, payment-account strategy and onboarding files for clients in regulated industries.

George Adamides

George Adamides

Head of Tax & Structuring

Owns cross-border tax, holding architecture, substance planning and founder-side structuring decisions.

Dariya Skurdina

Dariya Skurdina

Head of Immigration

Leads the Cyprus immigration department: residence permits, visas, family reunification and life-on-the-ground setup for founders and families.

Alexandr Myagkov

Alexandr Myagkov

Head of Compliance & AML

Responsible for AML / KYC frameworks, compliance manuals and regulator-ready documentation across licensing engagements.

Natalie Aivazidou

Natalie Aivazidou

Head of Licensing

Leads licence applications, regulator communication and filing calendars across iGaming, fintech and crypto mandates.

"High-risk doesn't mean careless. It means the paperwork has to be tighter, not looser, than the generalists'."
— Yourshield partner team

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