Lana Weiss

Experienced Lawyer with 14+ years of PQE, LL.M.. Proven record of closing 100+ venture capital deals, managing a portfolio of 150+ investments, and building scalable legal functions for VC firms. Brings a strong international perspective with hands-on experience in U.S., UK, EU, Swiss, Singaporean, and offshore legal environments. Experienced in Web3 and crypto regulations. Admitted to work as a lawyer in Germany (level of the 1st state exam).

SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL - Cyber Fund - Cayman Islands

(2023-04 - 2025-07)

• Independently built the legal function for the venture capital arm from scratch, formulated the legal strategy for investment activities, created guidelines, processes, and templates. Established and coordinated a high-performing network of external advisors.
• Served as a trusted adviser to executive leadership on legal and regulatory risk, governance, and compliance matters.
• Successfully closed 70+ venture capital transactions across the US, EU, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, and offshore jurisdictions. Lead all stages of transactions, including negotiations, legal drafting, due diligence, and closings.
• Supported investments in 10+ venture capital funds, reviewed key documentation (LPAs, PPMs, subscription documents), negotiated side letters, and ensured completion of fund KYC requirements.
• Worked extensively with a broad range of VC transaction documentation, including Term Sheets, Share Purchase Agreements, Subscription Agreements, Articles of Association, Shareholders' Agreements, SAFEs, Convertible Loan Agreements, NVCA-based agreements, Token Warrants, SAFTs, Side Letters and related instruments.
• Developed expertise in global crypto regulations (e.g., SEC, MiCA, FCA), led regulatory due diligence on crypto projects and worked closely with portfolio companies to navigate complex compliance challenges.
• Oversaw a massive portfolio of 150+ investments across multiple jurisdictions. Ensured Cyber Fund's rights were protected during all corporate actions such as follow-on financing rounds, exits, secondary sales, token issuances, restructurings, liquidations, SAFE conversions, and similar corporate actions.

SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL - zenloop GmbH - Berlin

(2022-03 - 2023-04)

Supporting a Berlin-based B2B SaaS startup as a solo lawyer

• Contract law: drafting and negotiating contracts in English and German with all counterparties, including well-known German companies
• GDPR compliance, employment, intellectual property, and corporate law

PROJECT LAWYER - Independent

(2019-10 - 2022-03)

Examples of the projects realized:

• Supporting investment rounds for a SportTech Startup (UAE and Russia)
• Legal set up for a MedTech Startup (Luxembourg)
• Structuring and legal support of a joint venture, telemedicine clinic (Russia and Kazakhstan)

HEAD OF LEGAL - Genome Ventures - Moscow

(2014-04 - 2019-09)

• Investments and corporate law: structuring and legal support of investment deals in different jurisdictions, joint ventures, and other corporate law issues
• Legal support of portfolio companies (IT): contract law, intellectual property, data protection, tax law, labor law, etc.
• Work with Russian, English, American law, the law of some EU countries
• Team management of 3 people and coordination of external advisers

JUNIOR → SENIOR M&A LAWYER - Promsvyazbank JSC and Columba Management LLC - Moscow

(2010-11 - 2014-03)

• Due diligence reviews
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Corporate law, shareholders agreements

MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) - Corporate and securities law - London University (2023)

STUDIES OF LAW (AS A DEGREE STUDENT) - University Salzburg (2011)

MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) - Business law - Higher School of Economics (2010 - 2013)

SPECIALIST DEGREE - Russian Law Academy (2005 - 2010)