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About LEXTON Consulting

Strategic consultancy for businesses and private clients operating across borders.

LEXTON CONSULTING – FZCO advises entrepreneurs, companies and private clients on compliance, AML, sanctions exposure, tax-efficient structuring and international business strategy — with the rigour of two decades of senior practice behind every recommendation.

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01 Who we are

Advice that is precise, discreet and grounded in a real understanding of how regulators, banks and counterparties think.

LEXTON CONSULTING – FZCO is an independent advisory company registered in the International Free Zone Authority (IFZA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We work with clients whose business, assets or personal affairs extend across several jurisdictions — and who need advice that is precise, discreet and grounded in a real understanding of how regulators, banks and counterparties think.

The international environment has become markedly less forgiving. Sanctions regimes expand and change at short notice. Banks and payment providers apply ever stricter AML and KYC standards. Tax transparency rules reach further every year. A structure that worked five years ago can today trigger account closures, frozen payments or reputational damage. Our role is to identify these risks early and to design practical solutions before they become problems.

We combine regulatory and compliance expertise with commercial judgment. Clients come to us not for generic templates, but for a considered strategy built around their specific facts, objectives and risk profile.

02 Our founder

LEXTON Consulting was established by Dr. Anatoly Yarovyi, an internationally recognised specialist in international law, compliance, sanctions regulation and corporate tax, with more than twenty years of professional experience across public service, leading law firms and international practice.

i.Academic background

Dr. Yarovyi holds a Master of Law from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (2004) and completed postgraduate legal studies at Stanford University (2013), at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Law, having defended a doctoral dissertation on covert investigative and intelligence activities — expertise that today underpins his work on risk assessment, investigations and due diligence. He is a co-author of the academic and practical commentary to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and has taught as an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the National Academy of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

ii.Professional career

Dr. Yarovyi began his career in public service, serving from 2004 to 2010 in prosecution authorities, and completed professional training in international justice in The Hague. He went on to practise at leading law firms, including Vasyl Kisil & Partners, worked in-house in the corporate and agricultural investment sectors, and completed a traineeship at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Since 2018 he has been a Senior Partner at Collegium of International Lawyers, an international law firm registered in London.

iii.Recognition

In 2021, Dr. Yarovyi was among the candidates in Ukraine’s national selection for the position of Judge of the European Court of Human Rights — one of the highest offices in European international law. He is a member of the International Bar Association and the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine, and the author of numerous publications on rule of law, judicial reform and law-enforcement reform, including in Ukrainska Pravda. His biography is published on Wikipedia.

iv.Track record

Over his career, Dr. Yarovyi has advised on complex, high-value cross-border matters, including a major international asset-recovery mandate for a foreign agricultural investor, and has acted for senior executives and businesses in high-profile matters involving major state-owned enterprises. He advises clients in English, Ukrainian, Russian, French and Turkish.

03 Areas of focus

Where we add the most value

Seven disciplines that, in practice, rarely stand alone. Most engagements draw on several of them at once.

  • 01

    Compliance and AML advisory

    Assessment of compliance frameworks, AML/KYC readiness, source-of-funds and source-of-wealth documentation, and preparation for bank onboarding and regulatory reviews.

  • 02

    Sanctions risk advisory

    Screening of counterparties and transactions, sanctions-exposure analysis under EU, UK, US and UN regimes, and strategies for operating safely in a restrictive environment.

  • 03

    Corporate tax and international structuring

    Design of domestic and cross-border corporate structures, holding and operating models, and tax-efficient planning aligned with substance and transparency requirements.

  • 04

    Business due diligence

    In-depth checks on partners, investors, targets and counterparties before transactions, investments and long-term commitments.

  • 05

    Digital assets and fintech

    Structuring of crypto-related businesses, feasibility analysis for crypto-payment and virtual-asset licensing, and set-up of financial-technology ventures.

  • 06

    Reputation and data-risk advisory

    Managing how clients and their businesses appear in compliance and risk-screening databases used by banks and financial institutions.

  • 07

    Strategic business consulting

    Market entry, start-up structuring and long-term strategy for entrepreneurs and family businesses expanding internationally.

  • Not sure where your matter fits? Most situations touch more than one area.

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04 How we work

Five principles, applied to every matter

  1. i.

    Senior-led

    Every engagement is led personally by our founder. Clients work directly with the person responsible for the strategy, not with a chain of intermediaries.

  2. ii.

    Tailored, not templated

    We analyse each client’s facts, jurisdictions and objectives before recommending a course of action. Our advice is concrete, documented and actionable.

  3. iii.

    Discretion as standard

    Many of our clients are entrepreneurs, investors and families for whom confidentiality is essential. We treat every matter accordingly.

  4. iv.

    International reach

    Based in Dubai, we serve clients across the Middle East, Europe, the CIS and beyond, drawing on a trusted network of independent professionals — including licensed law firms, tax advisers and auditors — where a matter requires their involvement.

  5. v.

    Proactive, not reactive

    We focus on anticipating regulatory, banking and reputational risks, so that our clients can make decisions with confidence rather than respond to crises.

Let’s discuss your situation

Whether you are restructuring an international business, preparing for a bank or regulatory review, or assessing sanctions and compliance exposure, we are ready to help you find the right path forward. Contact us for a confidential initial consultation.

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