Ilya Rusyaev
Lawyer. Entrepreneur. Strategic adviser.
My work brings together law, business and technology. I develop Rusyaev AI (rusyaev.ai) and work with business owners on key decisions.
Legal practice since 2005 · Candidate of Sciences in Law
About
Lawyer, entrepreneur and Candidate of Sciences in Law.
I began my legal practice in 2005. My main areas are disputes, insolvency, tax risk and protecting business interests.
Building and developing businesses has given me the perspective of someone who makes decisions and is accountable for their consequences.
Today, I bring together legal practice, entrepreneurial experience and technology. One of my projects is Rusyaev AI (rusyaev.ai), a service for researching and analysing case law.
I am interested in professional exchange across borders: sharing experience and developing projects at the intersection of law, business and technology.
Research
My research focuses on criminal bankruptcy: the criminal law assessment of participants’ actions and questions of liability. I defended my Candidate of Sciences dissertation at Kazan Federal University in 2025.
Candidate of Sciences in Law — Kazan Federal University, 2025 ↗
- Criminal Bankruptcy · dissertation PDF ↗
Full text in Russian, 259 pages. Kazan Federal University, 2025.
- Dissertation abstract · PDF ↗
Research summary in Russian, 29 pages. Kazan Federal University, 2025.
Approach
I start with the owner’s goals and the circumstances behind their decisions.
I consider legal questions alongside the economics of the business and the relationships involved. I want to understand what a decision means for capital, business management and the owner’s family.
I consider immediate actions in light of plans for the years ahead. As circumstances change, I return to the original goals and review priorities while keeping the wider context in view.
- Context
- The history of the business, the interests involved and the owner’s personal plans.
- Consequences
- The implications for capital, control of the business, relationships and family.
- Action
- The sequence of decisions and coordinated work with specialists.
Work with me
Strategic advice for business owners.
I work with owners in the context of their business and personal plans. I take part in key decisions, retain the wider picture and revisit it as circumstances change.
The scope includes transactions, relationships with partners, capital, periods of crisis and business succession.
Format and terms
A specific question can be addressed on an hourly basis. For an ongoing working relationship, we agree a retainer. Before we start, we agree the task, scope and terms so we can both decide whether the arrangement is a good fit.
Personal advisory work
from US$2,000 per hour
Retainer fees for ongoing work are discussed separately and depend on the task and level of involvement.
Practice
Tax, insolvency and criminal law practice.
Three areas that bring together my legal practice, management experience and research.
Tax
My professional path began with business liquidation. At the time, owners often wanted to wind up a company. Today, the focus is more often on preserving an operating business and understanding the risks it has accumulated.
I work on tax audits: analysing claims, documents and the underlying business relationships, and assessing the implications for the company and its owner.
Example of a task
A tax authority questions a company’s transactions. The task is to establish what happened, compare the facts with the documents and develop the business’s position.
Insolvency
My work as an insolvency practitioner gave me a perspective on businesses at a point where debt, assets and competing interests become part of one complex situation.
My focus is the future of the business, relationships with creditors, transactions and management decisions. The course of the proceedings matters, as do the consequences for the people involved.
Example of a task
A company’s debt burden is growing. The owner needs to consider negotiations with creditors, continued operations and possible insolvency proceedings, understanding the implications of each route.
Criminal law
A separate area of my work concerns criminal law questions linked to tax, business decisions and insolvency. The facts, the actions of those involved and the history behind decisions are especially important here.
My research focuses on criminal bankruptcy. My dissertation and other research materials are available in the About section.
Example of a task
A director’s actions and a company’s transactions are being assessed in a criminal law context. The task is to reconstruct the events, documents and circumstances in which decisions were made.
Rusyaev AI
Open information for real decisions.
I develop Rusyaev AI (rusyaev.ai) to make it easier for lawyers and business owners to find information, test arguments and work with sources through the AI tools they already use.
We began with case law search. Our development focus is now the MCP connector and the connections between open sources.
Alongside the AI you already use
Our small team has focused on a specific task: finding published materials and providing clear, verifiable access to them.
The MCP connector brings search into applications that support this connection, including ChatGPT and Claude. People can stay in their familiar environment: their AI helps them reason, while our search finds sources to inform that reasoning.
From documents to connected facts
The idea is a unified search across open sources, connecting documents, companies, people and events. We are developing this foundation step by step.
The original text, its identifying details, semantic search, exact words and connections to other materials are different layers of the same picture. This approach is intended to help people move from a single document to an understanding of the wider situation.
Questions it can help explore
- Develop a position in a dispute
- A lawyer searches for decisions supporting and challenging an argument, compares circumstances and checks the evidence a court relied on. The materials can be opened and read.
- Find a provider with relevant experience
- A business owner studies published disputes to see which companies carried out similar work, what they undertook to do and where difficulties arose.
- Understand the terms of actual transactions
- Court materials can disclose contract terms: scope, price, deadlines and the reasons for disagreements. They offer a way to study market experience through specific documents.
Court materials describe past events. A company’s current position and whether terms remain relevant require separate checks.
Case law search is available on the website. The project’s main development focus is the connector and more connected access to open information. I want this to reduce time-consuming research and help people make decisions.
Rusyaev AI (rusyaev.ai)
Contact
For correspondence, professional exchange and joint projects.
I welcome new connections and exchanges of experience across countries.