Elena Cherepanova

Elena Cherepanova

Head of Labor Law Practice

Employment lawyer with 15+ years of hands-on experience across the full HR life cycle and adjacent regulatory areas. Advises on HR legal audits and risk mapping, drafts and updates internal policies and procedures (bylaws/regulations, handbooks, job descriptions), and supports hiring, termination, restructuring and redundancy processes.

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Elena also counsels on migration compliance and employee personal data protection, and represents companies in employment disputes and interactions with supervisory authorities.

Before joining BBNP, led and personally managed HR administration in large companies with headcounts from several hundred to 1,500+, including org-structure management, staffing tables and recruitment workflows.

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Core expertise

HR legal due diligence; gap analysis of HR files and processes; risk mitigation plans.
Drafting/refreshing of internal regulations (policies, rules, job descriptions).
Onboarding/termination, redundancies and business restructuring.
Migration law for employees and contractors.
Personal data compliance for HR (RKN requirements).
Representation before authorities: Migration Service, GIT (State Labour Inspectorate), Rostekhnadzor; pre-inspection preparation and defence.

Education & professional training

2011 — Moscow City University (MGPU), degree in Public and Municipal Administration
2009 — A.S. Griboedov IMPE, Faculty of Economics.
2007 — ADPO (Association of Continuing Professional Education), Moscow — HR Service Organization.
2020–2023 — Series of advanced trainings/webinars: military record-keeping; labour disputes (prevention and resolution; case law review); Roskomnadzor’s PD updates; HR digitalization;
2022–2023 labour-law changes (OHS, FSS reporting, employment service reporting); E-HR compliance; HR actions during the pandemic

Languages

English

Publications & speaking (selected)

2024 — Speaker, Pravo.ru Conference “Labour Law & Employment Disputes 2024”.
2024 — Webinar speaker: “Terminating conflict employees lawfully and minimizing litigation risk” (with Labor Disputes journal).
2024 — Articles: risks in resignations and mutual terminations (Pravo.ru); dismissal of remote employees — case law & guidance (Labor Law and Employment Disputes).
2020 — “Rotational work method: time calculation and dispute hotspots,” Labor Disputes journal.