Position: Head of legal/Senior Legal Counsel
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

•	Developing and leading corporate legal strategy in various spheres of company’s activity  (incl. tax issues, criminal proceedings, commercial disputes, M&A projects, etc.); representing company in courts of all levels. 
•	Advising the CEO and other senior corporate officers on a variety of legal issues;
•	Developing corporate procedures and policies;
•	Overseeing domestic and international corporate commercial activity from legal side;
•	Creating drafts of the standard and non-standard commercial agreements based on Ukrainian and English law.
•	Developing and implementing legal structure in commercial trading agreements incl. trading agreements with foreign counterparties (non-residents) based on English law;
•	Supporting CFO in obtaining bank financing (approving credit, collateral, surety agreements and other legal support);
•	Overseen and coordinate bank financing projects of the Company;
•	Overseen and coordinate work of external legal counsels; 
•	Coordinate communication with Antimonopoly Committee  of Ukraine;
•	Lead and participate in various GR and Compliance projects of the Company;
•	Communicating with parent company (Switzerland) on various legal issues;
•	Supporting parent company (Switzerland) on GAFTA International Arbitration Procedure;
•	Legal trainings for company’s employees;
•	Company’s representative in various business associations, Company representative in State bodies at all levels;
•      Twice awarded as Best Employee in 2014 and 2016 by Louis Dreyfus Company
•	12+ years hands-on work experience in corporate law, international transactions, financing and litigations;
•	8+ years overseeing company international and domestic corporate commercial activity from legal side (legal structure, communication, agreements, transactions, financing);
•	Develop and lead corporate legal strategy in litigations (commercial litigations, tax litigations, criminal proceedings);
•	Act as a team lead in various legal and commercial projects (update of the company’s business model in line with the latest BEPS requirements, various tax risk mitigation projects, company’s financing (investments) projects, etc.)

•	Manage complex commercial transactions and projects;
•	Overseen and coordinate large financing/credit projects (attracting of financing from top rated international banks);
•	Participate and coordinate various GR and compliance projects (representing company in legislation and lobbing activity, creating and implementing various internal compliance polices); 
•	In-depth knowledge of all legal aspects in international trading;

•	Knowledge of English Law – (Harvard University Certificate: Contract Law);
•	Student of the Intellectual Property MOOC of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School;
•	Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) DLP course (Switzerland) – passed 3 levels of course on international arbitration and international grain trading contracts; 
•	Project Management Certificate (EBA business school);
•	Twice awarded as Best Employee in 2014 and 2016 by Louis Dreyfus Company;
•	Fluent in English (both oral and written), native languages Russian/Ukrainian.