Ilya has spent fifteen years building and operating regulated, cross-border businesses in Los Angeles — healthcare, lending, retail — industries where the discipline is the same as it is here: get the structure right, get the filing right, and never let a client be surprised by a regulator. Gatewell is the application of that operating record to the Covered-List era, built on a conviction the register keeps proving out: the manufacturers being kept from the American market are not the adversaries the rules were written for. They are the replacements.

He leads client engagement, commercial terms, and the firm's alliance network across Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo.