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Work experience

General Counsel

from 10.2017 to 12.2021 (4 years 2 months)
CYFRD, Kyiv (IT)

Key achievements/projects:

- Building of legal function at the holding company ‘from scratch’, its further updates and amendments,
- Full legal support within operations of a computer games development studio (70+ people), a cybersecurity company (15+ people), a company developing/manufacturing wireless chargers and a number of other portfolio companies,
- Drafting/review/execution of documents within a sizable investment to a fund and further divestment from it,
- Drafting/review/amending various agreements (founders’ agreements, termsheets, fundraising, NDA, sales, service agreements, etc.) as well as legal and tax structuring of corporate relations and operations for a number of start-ups,
- Drafting/review/execution of documents within investments into several large funds, further update of the documents

Major responsibilities:

Full legal support re:
- Venture capital and investments (Ukraine and worldwide, incl. crypto), start-ups,
- IT services (incl. computer game development), cybersecurity, GDPR,
- IP issues (IT-related, TM transfers/registrations),
- business consulting services,
- internal corporate issues (registration of new companies in Ukraine and worldwide, amending corporate documents, drafting/review of internal corporate policies, etc.),
- international tax/corporate planning (working with multiple jurisdictions, incl. communications with the local service providers),
- project management

Managing up to 3 employees

Legal Director, Tax Manager

from 06.2006 to 10.2017 (11 years 4 months)
Бунге Україна, Київ (Сільське господарство, агробізнес)

Major responsibilities:

- full legal support of food products (vegetable oils, mayonnaise, etc.) sales and distribution (food/labelling & antimonopoly regulations (including communications with Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine re their reviews/investigations of the company's activities), IP license agreements, managing change of the prices, advertisement, marketing & logistics issues, domestic/export sales & distribution agreements (including agreements with retail chains), structuring of supplies of goods and services - domestic and export/import, etc.); acting as a legal partner to food department
- support on various legal issues: IT services import agreements, finance contracts review (insurance/loans), compliance (drafting/review of internal policies, FCPA/anti-bribery compliance, economic sanctions, antitrust compliance), criminal investigations against the company/its employees, agri commodities (grains/crude vegetable oil) sales contracts (domestic/export), confidentiality and management services/recharges agreements, internal legal consulting
- support within various M&A projects (negotiations, documentary support, legal due diligences (conducting own ones as well as review of those performed by legal companies)
- at the position of Tax Manager: dealing with internal tax consulting and tax optimization of the activities, calculation of effective tax rate under US GAAP, preparation of Fin48 calculations, full support within the administrative stage of appealing tax office's decisions
- support within regular annual general shareholders' meetings at a closed joint stock company (later - private joint stock company) - large manufacturer of vegetable oil; no major negative drawbacks

Key achievements/projects:

- legal support on acquisition of new greenfield project (grain/meal/oil transshipment facility and vegetable oil plant) in Mykolaiv, Ukraine worth 180 MUSD and further full legal support on construction (including support on the import of equipment) of this facility; no major negative drawbacks
- supervision and support on all legal aspects of the functioning of newly constructed grain transshipment facility in Mykolaiv, Ukraine worth 100 MUSD with no major negative drawbacks
- versatile management experience (managed 2-7 subordinates in various locations in Ukraine)
- full and continuous support on a number of multi-million tax cases (several hundred MUSD in Value Added Tax and Corporate Income Tax); the majority of the cases were won
- counter-acting against raiders attacks at a silo (included legal and PR actions)
- introduction in 2014 of internal economic sanctions compliance program (i.e. economic sanctions due to the situation in Crimea/Ukraine) which is currently operational
- pro bono projects: active participation within business organizations (EBA/ACC) on drafting Tax Code in 2010 and cancellation of state price regulation for food products (2014 - 2016)

Managing up to 7 employees

Senior Associate

from 07.2005 to 05.2006 (10 months)
DLA Piper Україна, Київ (Legal)

Major projects/responsibilities:

- consulting/advising clients (both verbally and in writing) on various issues, inter alia, taxation (corporate, VAT, customs duties, personal), corporate matters (corporate governance, incorporation of companies, M&A, etc.), customs legislation, IP, etc.;
- advising on tax planning including analysis of the Ukrainian legislation as well as that of foreign jurisdictions;
- registration of companies on a 'turn-key' basis;
- drafting/reviewing contracts of various types;
- supervising the work of other associates

Senior, Staff

from 08.2000 to 06.2005 (4 years 10 months)
Arthur Andersen/Andersen/Ernst&Young/E&Y Law, Київ (Юриспруденція)

Extensive experience in:

- legal and tax due diligences (both as staff and co-ordinator/supervisor);
- tax support within audits of Ukrainian companies which included in-depth analysis of the tax position of the audited company, review of the tax returns, writing memos, etc.;
- consulting/advising clients (both verbally and in writing) on various issues, inter alia, taxation (corporate, VAT, customs duties, personal), corporate matters (corporate governance, incorporation of companies, M&A, etc.), customs legislation, IP, etc.;
- advising on tax planning which included analysis of the Ukrainian legislation as well as that of foreign jurisdictions;
- registration of companies on a 'turn-key' basis;
- drafting contracts (acquisition, licensing, confidentiality, construction, management services, etc.)

Additional education and certificates

Leadership Development Program (mini-MBA) at ESADE business school (www.esade.edu)

2011 - 2012

Finance for Non Finance People Training

2010

Management Development Program (mini-MBA)

2010

Digital Law 2.0

2017

Knowledge and skills

Language proficiencies

• English — advanced
• Ukrainian — fluent
• Russian — advanced
• German — average

Additional information

Excellent organizational skills, proactive, communicative, team-player, hardworking, fast learner