Position: Lawyer / Head of Legal
Category: Other
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

- Have built legal departments at 2 companies from the scratch, introduced document management, and proper compliance procedures
- Ensured a trifold growth of a supervised team in a TOP law firm in five years
- Managed Ukrainian law advisory part in two multibillion disputes in England. Advising the High Court of England and Wales on Ukrainian law helped the USD 3 billion case to be admitted to proceedings. In another case parties settled on favourable conditions to a client of our side
- On behalf of a BVI receiver coordinated asset preservation activities in Ukraine for one of the major petroleum companies, though loss-making. This resulted in debt restructuring, postponing interests payments on the USD 1 billion debt for over 5 years and thus making the company possible to conduct business activity and restore profitability
- Introduced data protection policies at numerous companies from the scratch including the development of the relevant policies, instructions to the personnel, communication guidances. None of those companies have ever had any sort of complications related to data protection measures
- All criminal proceedings ever commenced against the clients I represented have been closed, property if ever confiscated - returned
Overview of my experience:
- 10+ years advising companies and individuals on establishing and doing business in Ukraine, making them fully compliant, drafting contracts, doing dispute resolutions
- 5+ years working with English law and Hight Court on projects over USD 3 billion in value
- 5+ years of International Litigation and International Arbitration experience in LCIA, ICC, SCC, VIAC, AAA, JAMS, ICAC, WIPO and hoc institutions
- Worked with matters in 5+ jurisdictions including the UK, US, BVI, Cyprus, Estonia, Belize, Switzerland
- Fluent in English, native Ukrainian and Russian, basic French

What did I do:
- Represented clients in International arbitration institutions in Ukraine, the US, England, France, Austria, Sweden;
- Advised clients and represented companies in courts of Ukraine of all types and all levels on a broad range of matters: commercial, tax, IP, international trade, employment, etc, as well as within criminal proceedings;
- Built legal teams from scratch, managed a team of 6 lawyers, ensured client's satisfaction with the provided services;
- Protected IP rights of clients in Ukraine and in disputes with the US opponents according to the US Law as well as within WIPO under the UDRP rules;
- Advised clients on the issuance of tokens, virtual assets operations and crypto/ finance business; advised on mitigation of legal risks, ensured legal compliance, KYC, AML / CFT procedures;
- Conducted negotiations on behalf of the clients including those which were held in English;
- Carried out data protection measures according to GDPR, CCPA, and local legislature, drafted relevant documents;
- Established companies, carried out due diligence, supervised M&A transactions, mitigated risks;
- Drafted contracts, memorandums, claims, petitions and other documents, supervised proper contract management and ensured their enforcement

My education:
Did my Masters in Paris, in TOP-5 Universities globally, according to QS University Rankings
Graduated from one of the Kyiv law schools and did 3-years of postgraduate studies afterward

My jobs:
- Partner with a boutique Ukrainian law firm (now)
- Counsel with one of the TOP full-service law firms (for around 5 years)
- Associate in a business consultancy in Berlin
Before that - a few more companies in Ukraine
- Result-oriented approach, i.e. to get the job done.  Being micromanaged or micromanaging others - not exactly my type of thing.
- Clear communication.