Profile
About
Ilya Shilov is a commercial lawyer who has advised on international licensing, M&A, and cross-border transactions since 2016, with experience across the IT, pharma, and technology sectors.
He writes practical guides on English-law commercial contracts - how deals are formed, how redlines shift risk, and how the clauses people treat as boilerplate actually decide outcomes.
As founder of Veqtor, Ilya brings that contract-review experience to an open-source tool that helps Claude work with tracked changes in Word while keeping the original file untouched.
Education
LL.M., International Law, Pericles International Law Center, with distinction.
Core legal expertise
Commercial contracts under English law, international licensing, M&A, IT and SaaS contracts, cross-border transactions, and contract drafting.
Legal tech and operations
Legal tech, contract review automation, and legal operations for commercial contracting workflows.