Yuri A Bolotov

Attorney/Partner, McGuireWoods LLP

Yuri Bolotov is a managing attorney/partner and the head of the IP group at McGuireWoods’ Almaty office. He graduated from the Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute (Russia) with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1983. He also obtained a PhD in technical sciences from the Riga Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and a doctor of letters degree from Fairfax University, Louisiana, United States in 2002. Mr Bolotov has been a registered patent and trademark attorney of the Republic of Kazakhstan since 1993. He obtained his JD degree at the Academic Law School of the National Research Institute of State and Legislation of the Kazakh Academy of Science in 1998. He has worked in the field of IP rights protection for 15 years and has written more than 50 articles on the subject.