Colibry LLC · U.S. resident · New York

You contract with a U.S. company.
The work in Russia is ours.

Colibry LLC is incorporated in New York. You sign under New York law, pay in dollars to a U.S. bank, and disputes are heard in New York County. Accounting, tax, director, payments, and representation in Russia are performed by our affiliated company. Hire a Russian vendor directly, and the parent sits on Russian paper, under Russian law. Contract with us, and the parent’s engagement stays American.

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New York LLC
New York law
USD · U.S. bank
English reporting

Your contract

Colibry LLC — a U.S. resident. New York law. Courts of New York County.

If you go direct

A Russian vendor puts the parent on Russian paper, under Russian law.

With us

In-country acts are the affiliate’s responsibility. You receive English reports.

Sanctions

Scoped to applicable U.S. sanctions law. No U.S. person in the Russian transaction.

The structure

A U.S. resident as your counterparty. In-country work is our responsibility.

We administer Russian legal entities for U.S. companies — subsidiaries that still operate, and those that do not. Accounting, tax, director, ruble payments, representation before the FTS, wind-down, and the books. The parent’s contract is American. The acts in Russia sit with us.

You

New York paper

You engage Colibry LLC, a New York resident. The agreement is governed by New York law. Disputes are heard in the courts of New York County. You pay in U.S. dollars to a U.S. bank.

Direct

Russian paper

Hire a Russian provider yourself and the parent is on a Russian contract, under Russian law, in a Russian forum. That is the exposure this structure is built to avoid.

Responsibility in Russia

Filings, director, payments, and appearance are performed by our affiliated non-U.S. company, under Russian law, with its own staff. That operating responsibility is ours. You receive the English file.

Practice

Four paths we take

First, write the path down. Then keep the entity current, wind it down, or keep the books reachable — whether the subsidiary is still operating or not. Eleven mandates sit under those four.

Decide

One English options paper: keep the company running under administration, mothball it, or liquidate — with clocks, costs, and what OFAC still allows.

Entity Diagnostic & Options Paper

Keep it current

Accounting, tax, director, bank, payroll, and representation — whether the subsidiary is still operating or dormant. A mothball retainer is the usual bundle when activity has stopped.

Wind it down

Voluntary liquidation with a paper trail, including the FTS audit that often comes with it. We do not run a sale to a Russian buyer.

Keep the books

1C and the ledger on our Russia servers, mirrored to the United States, without a HQ VPN.

IT Infrastructure & Data Continuity

Mothball Retainer The full practice

Often the blocker

We settle in Russia. You reimburse us in New York.

Correspondent rails into Russia fail. Tax, fees, and leftover payroll still have to be paid in rubles. We advance them from the affiliate’s in-country balance. You repay Colibry LLC in dollars, to a U.S. bank, on an English invoice.

Industries

The same New York contract, sector by sector.

Western parents in energy, agriculture, retail, manufacturing, logistics, and financial services still have Russian legal entities. The administration is the same architecture. The calendar is not.

Energy, oil & gas

Upstream, midstream, and service groups with a Russian legal entity still on the register.

Agriculture

Farming, processing, and agri-trading companies whose Russian subsidiary still has to file.

Retail & consumer

Store networks, brands, and consumer groups with a Russian company that still exists in law.

Manufacturing

Plants, parts, and industrial groups with a Russian legal entity still on EGRUL.

Logistics

Freight, warehousing, and transport groups with a Russian company that still has to answer the FTS.

Financial services

Banks, brokers, and funds with a Russian company that still operates or was frozen in place.

All industries

How it works

The parent’s contract is American. The in-country work is ours.

You sign in New York, under New York law. You pay in dollars. The affiliated company files, signs, and appears in Russia. You receive English reports — including four weeks’ notice of deadlines.

U.S. contract

Service agreement with Colibry LLC. New York law. Courts of New York County. No Russian counterparty on your side of the paper.

USD payment

Invoices in English, paid to a U.S. bank account. No currency conversion, no OFAC-restricted rails.

In-country work

Tax, EGRUL, director, and FTS work is done by our affiliated non-U.S. company and its own staff.

Reporting to you

Filing status, scans, legislative alerts. Unusual events — FTS demand, court paper — the same day, with a risk note.

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Why Colibry

New York paper. Russian execution.

Colibry LLC is a U.S. resident. The parent’s engagement is American. In-country administration is our affiliated company’s responsibility under Russian law. The IT layer is ours — not a vendor’s.

U.S. resident

New York LLC, New York law, New York courts, U.S. bank. The parent’s contract is American. Direct engagement of a Russian provider would not be.

License-shaped work

Engagements are built around applicable U.S. sanctions law — not despite it. Written confirmation of the architecture is available on request. We are not a law firm.

In-house in Russia

An affiliated company with its own specialists — not a rotating bench of freelance nominators.

Confidential by design

We do not publish clients or case studies. Where you instruct through outside counsel, communications can follow that counsel’s protocol.

Fixed scope

Deliverables and fees in the engagement letter. No open-ended retainer unless you ask for one.

Own infrastructure

Servers in Russia, mirror in the United States. 1C and the ledger stay reachable if the VPN does not.

Who we serve

Built for the GC, not for a brochure

The typical client is a U.S. parent: a New York contract, a Russian subsidiary that still needs administration, and a compliance team that will not put the company on Russian paper.

General counsel & compliance

You need a New York counterparty, a dollar invoice, and a file you can show the board and, if it comes to it, a regulator. You do not need another Moscow vendor on a ruble contract.

International law firms

You have the U.S. or English advice. You need someone who will actually file, sit as director, and appear at the FTS — without putting your partners into the Russian transaction.

CFOs and controllers

The subsidiary still hits the consolidation question, the tax accrual, and the “where is 1C” problem. We keep the calendar and the books reachable.

Investment banks and funds

A portfolio company that still operates, or one that froze. We will not invent a story for a listing. We will tell you whether administration or wind-down is the file.

We will not take

SDN, blocked, or sectorally prohibited counterparties
Work that would continue prohibited commercial operations in Russia
Matters that require a U.S. person in a Russian transaction