 Ivlev graduated in law from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1993 and later continued his legal studies at Columbia University Summer Law School in Amsterdam and at Queen Mary, University of London.In 1997 Ivlev became a partner in a Moscow-based international law firm, ALM Feldmans, which was effectively destroyed by the broader attack on Yukos and its advisers in 2005.A district court in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for Ivlev in 2005 on charges of embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion, identical to those against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, who were charged with the same in 2007.