Tuyana Molokhoeva | General Counsel

Tuyana Molokhoeva LLM

General Counsel

Tuyana Molokhoeva is a dual-qualified attorney with 10 years of experience, specializing in business contracts and complex business litigation and arbitration. As General Counsel at Quandary Peak, Tuyana oversees all legal affairs, ensuring that the company’s legal strategies align with its business objectives.

Tuyana also advises clients on intellectual property litigation and arbitration, with a focus on trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and copyright infringement. She provides comprehensive support to experts throughout the legal process, from client onboarding and evidence analysis to discovery and expert report drafting.

Prior to her role at Quandary Peak, Tuyana gained extensive experience at a leading international law firm. There, she led cross-border legal teams in significant international arbitrations and litigations, handling cases involving foreign investment, commercial contracts, shareholder disputes, and software development.

Tuyana holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the USC Gould School of Law, where she was awarded the prestigious Dispute Resolution Award, a full-tuition scholarship. She also earned a Graduate Certificate in Technology and Entrepreneurship Law. She obtained her first law degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

In addition to her role at Quandary Peak, Tuyana serves as Co-Chair of Young CalArb, a young chapter of the non-profit organization California Arbitration, which is dedicated to empowering and engaging young professionals and law students with a keen interest in international arbitration.

Summary of Qualifications

  • Management and coordination of technical due diligence projects in the context of M&A transactions and internal assessment; drafting, reviewing and finalizing technical due diligence reports.
  • Analysis of open source software components in technical due diligence projects, including interpretation of programmatic analysis results, assessment of the risks related to open source licenses terms and cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
  • Assisting experts on coordination, document review, information requests in IP litigations and arbitrations.
  • Interfacing with clients regarding organizational aspects of the projects and delivering the final product.
  • Holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) and a Graduate Certificate in Technology and Entrepreneurship Law from University of Southern California, Gould School of Law.
  • Successfully represented clients in international arbitrations under UNCITRAL, LCIA and SCC Rules seated in London, Hong Kong, Stockholm, and New Delhi.
  • Successfully represented clients in cross-border litigations in various jurisdictions, including the Netherlands, US, UK, Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, and Switzerland.
  • Drafted written submissions and witness statements, analyzed documentary evidence, handled procedural correspondence with an opposing party and arbitrators, prepared memoranda, interfaced with clients, supervised the work of junior associates and paralegals, coordinated the work of foreign counsel and experts, and developed the case strategy.
  • Fluent speaker in Russian, and English.

Areas of Expertise

  • International arbitration
  • Complex business litigation
  • Cross-border dispute resolution
  • International M&A transactions
Client Testimonials
Had the pleasure of working with the Quandary Peak team on a tech audit recently and was thoroughly impressed by their level of professionalism, analysis and insight. The team (Dr. Mahdi Eslamimehr, Gordon MacKay, and Tuyana Molokhoeva) is knowledgeable, detail oriented and can break down technical concepts into very easy to understand language, even for non-technical folks. I highly recommend working with them.
Uri Kenig Chief Operating Officer, hellohive
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