Position: IT Lawyer
Category: Other
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

development of a legal unit in Kyiv (responsible for multi-national business ); growing-up two junior in-house counsels, having come from the non-digital sphere; achieving the vast IT lawyer's objectives under a critical personnel shortage.
Now I'm managing the Legal Dept. to an International digital company, headquartered in US, with 11 global offices, having now 700+ employees, with clients originating from over 200 countries. My team is supporting the commercial covering of the territories of the former CIS, EU, APAC working in a strong concord with colleagues servicing the legal matters in the US and EU.
my expertise allows to develop a legal team from the very beginning (starting with one unit) up to a multifunctional legal department, as well as to enter an existing team with clear infrastructure and functions distribution, reporting and career development options. that's a kind of a legal-team 'project management'. an existing legal infrastructure and standards may require some short-time training to get ready with application thereof in practice.