Alina has been working as a legal consultant for over 12 years. Her experience includes setting up and developing marketing functions, implementing strategic initiatives, reputation management, anti-crisis PR, opening and promoting practices and offices, developing new products, researching and introducing foreign legal marketing practices. Before joining BGP Litigation, Alina was Deputy Marketing and PR Director at Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners. She also has experience of working in the marketing departments of the Pepeliaev Group and Herbert Smith Freehills. She graduated from the State University of Management, specialising in Marketing, and has also taken a course in integrated marketing communications at the IE European Business School.