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Work experience

Senior Legal Counsel / International Legal Consultant

from 10.2012 to now (14 years)
Legal Consulting & Services, Дистанційно (Консалтинг, бухгалтерія, аудит)

• Own end-to-end legal support for fintech, technology and international corporate projects, working directly with founders and senior management on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters from initial assessment through implementation and ongoing support.
• Draft and negotiate complex agreements including service, white-label, licensing, partnership, customer/merchant, processing, agency, reseller, SaaS, outsourcing, MSA/SOW, SLA, NDA and data-protection arrangements.
• Support company incorporations, corporate governance and ongoing corporate maintenance across multiple jurisdictions, including the UK, Cyprus and the EU; advise on restructurings, market entry, licensing and banking relationships, and coordinate law firms, corporate secretaries/service providers, accountants, auditors and regulatory advisers.
• Advise on financial-services regulation and operating models involving PSPs, MSBs, EMI/e-money structures, acquiring, merchant/sub-merchant models, VASPs and digital assets, including AML/CFT, sanctions and regulatory-perimeter matters.
• Develop legal-risk and contract-governance frameworks covering financial, AML/CFT and operational risk allocation, settlement, reserves/withholding, liability, indemnities, onboarding, suspension and service continuity.
• Design and continuously improve scalable legal workflows and legal-operations infrastructure, including contract templates/playbooks, approval and escalation processes, outsourcing maps, RACI, Service Catalogues, SOWs, SLA/KPI, vendor-risk controls, governance materials and document-management standards.
• Support corporate transactions, restructurings and M&A workstreams, including legal due diligence, transaction-document review and coordination of external advisers where specialist local or transactional input is required.
• Advise on GDPR, technology contracts, intellectual property, trademarks and brand protection; actively use AI-assisted tools for legal research, drafting, contract analysis, document comparison, knowledge management and day-to-day legal workflow optimisation.

CEO Adviser

from 03.2012 to 10.2012 (8 months)
PJSC BANK MARKET TECHNOLOGY, Київ (Фінанси, банки, страхування)

Advised CEO and executive management on legal, compliance, financial-monitoring and asset-risk matters; supervised multidisciplinary functions covering Legal, AML/financial monitoring, exchange control, securities, accounting, compliance and security.

Corporate Development Director/ legal adviser

from 12.2010 to 03.2012 (1 year 4 months)
“Ukrzernotrans-K”LLC, “MetRudTrans”LLC, Київ (Транспорт, логістика)

Led corporate-development and legal workstreams, including group restructuring, international commercial arrangements and a holding structure for prospective IPO/capital-markets readiness; established cross-border cooperation and JV arrangements in Poland, China and Hong Kong.

Head of legal Department

from 04.2008 to 08.2010 (2 years 5 months)
“Di Borgo Consulting”, Odessa, Одеса (Консалтинг, бухгалтерія, аудит)

Led the legal function for a diversified group across FMCG, retail, export/import, real estate, services, gambling/betting and international investment projects; advised on corporate structuring and cross-border commercial/financial relationships.

Head of Legal Department

from 03.2007 to 01.2008 (11 months)
PJSK “Finbank” , Odessa, Одеса (Фінанси, банки, страхування)

Led the bank’s legal function across corporate, lending, regulatory/compliance and transactional matters, including legal risk, due diligence and M&A-related support.

Head of Collection Department

from 09.2004 to 03.2007 (2 years 7 months)
PJSC Bank “Pivdennyi”, Odessa, Одеса (Фінанси, банки, страхування)

Led legal recovery and distressed-asset work, including restructuring, insolvency, enforcement and complex contentious matter

Legal adviser/ senior legal adviser

from 10.2000 to 08.2004 (3 years 11 months)
PJSC Bank “Nadra” , Kiev, Київ (Фінанси, банки, страхування)

Provided legal support across lending, secured transactions, corporate/tax matters, securities, compliance, litigation, insolvency and enforcement.

Education

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev

Law, Kiev
Higher, from 1995 to 2000 (5 years)

Additional education and certificates

MINI-MBA Professional Project management, City Business School

Kiev, 2017, 1 year

International Trading Management, Kiev educational center Kursor

2015, 3 months

Digital Law Product 2.0, Business Consulting Academy (BCA)

2021, 1 month

DIGITAL LAW ХI, Business Consulting Academy (BCA)

2022, 2 months

ICA Certificate in Anti Money Laundering

2023

Knowledge and skills

• MS Office
• ЛІГА:ЗАКОН
• Car driving
• QD Professional
• MS Excel
• Google
• Jira
• Yougile
• Slack
• DeepL
• Genieai

Language proficiencies

• Spanish — beginner
• Ukrainian — fluent
• English — advanced

Additional information

CORE EXPERTISE
Senior Legal Counsel with 20+ years of experience across banking, international corporate and commercial law, fintech and financial-services regulation, including 13+ years advising cross-border businesses and regulated projects. Experienced in supporting founders and senior management on corporate governance and structuring, company incorporations and ongoing corporate matters, complex commercial contracts, licensing and regulatory compliance, banking relationships, legal risk and international expansion.
Combines complex contract drafting and negotiation with practical legal-operations capability: building scalable workflows, templates, playbooks, approval processes, outsourcing structures and governance frameworks. Multi-jurisdictional experience includes the UK, Cyprus and the EU, as well as Canada, UAE, Poland, the Baltics, Kazakhstan, Georgia and other markets. Strong working knowledge of fintech/payments, AML/CFT, MiCA/crypto, GDPR, technology contracts, trademarks and brand-protection matters.