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Work experience

Corporate Lawyer

from 01.2025 to now (1 year)
TEUS Group, Дистанційно (Будівництво, архітектура, дизайн інтер'єру)

Assistance in concluding contracts with contractors, clients (leasing, sale and purchase of real estate, procurement, service contracts and other contracts). Business assistance (company registration) in Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Maldives. Consulting, development of
investment plans, tax optimisation.

In-House Lawyer

from 08.2022 to now (3 years 6 months)
Al Therasol Limited, Інші країни (Оптова торгівля, дистрибуція, імпорт, експорт)

• Drafting and negotiating contracts with clients.
• Handling corporate matters for change of shareholders and directors; setting up companies in different jurisdictions; cooperation with international counsels.
• Managing legal support in debt collection disputes in international jurisdictions.
• Providing consultancy regarding the compliance of companies' activity in a different jurisdiction.

In-House Lawyer

from 09.2020 to 08.2022 (2 years)
QArea, Київ (IT)

• Drafting and negotiating contracts with clients.
• Handling corporate matters for change of shareholders and directors; setting up companies in different jurisdictions; cooperation with international counsels.
• Managing legal support in debt collection disputes in international jurisdictions.
• Providing consultancy regarding the compliance of companies' activity in a different jurisdiction.

In-House Lawyer

from 02.2019 to 10.2020 (1 year 9 months)
Bank4YOU Group, Київ (IT)

• Advised clients on international corporate law, corporate structuring, and international taxation.
• Managed disputes at various courts for breach of contract and debt collection ( County Court of Money Claim Centre (breach of contract, debt collection); High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division Commercial Court (breach of contract); High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division Commercial Court (breach of contract, misrepresentation); Сounty Court of Central London, District Judge (breach of contract debt collection).
• Drafted and negotiated contracts with clients.

In-House Lawyer

from 11.2017 to 08.2018 (10 months)
Ciklum, Kyiv (IT)

• Managed disputes at International Arbitration and Litigation regarding disputes in Swiss Chambers Arbitration Institution (debt collection, breach of contract); High Court of Justice (UK) (insolvency); The Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court (bankruptcy).
• Provided grievance investigations concerning employees.
• Handled corporate issues as of change to an article of association.
• Represented company before state bodies.
• Drafted policies in the part of legal matters.
• Drafted contracts, agreements, and legal documents.

Lawyer

from 07.2009 to 11.2016 (7 years 5 months)
Ilyashev and Partners, Kyiv (Legal)

Contributing to this top global law firm's success through the provision of business critical legal advice covering multi-jurisdictional commercial, insolvency, banking, finance, litigation, arbitration, regulatory, dispute resolution and money laundering investigations:

✔ Advised clients on complex agreements, and quantum in terms of costs, damage, legislation, evidence, procedure and process - explored options and facilitated decision-making.
✔ Drafted letters of before action, advice and pleadings, and court documentation.
✔ Advised on and drafted distribution, consultancy, procurement and intra-group agreements.
✔ Held Case Management Conferences and intermediated between parties of the dispute and international lawyer's teams based.

Lawyer

from 04.2000 to 07.2009 (9 years 4 months)
Advocate, Kyiv (Legal)

Provided legal advice to SME clients in the building and industry of sale of goods:

✔ Provided consultancy in relation to tax, insolvency procedure, and court practice and drafted contracts, registration procedures, minutes and articles of association.
✔ Conducted due diligence and provided arbitration support on ongoing contracts.
✔ Represented Victor Yuschenko, the former President of the Ukraine, in the courts of national jurisdiction during the Presidential Election 2005.
✔ Represented in the European Court of Human Rights.
✔ Cooperated with the Parliament Committee in the matter of freedom of speech. Co-author the Law On amendments and alterations to the Law “On television and radio”.

Senior Legal Advisor

from 02.1999 to 07.2009 (10 years 6 months)
ASTARTA Holding N.V., Kyiv (Сільське господарство, агробізнес)

Advised this exporter of agricultural products on M&A procedures for the sugar production plants:

✔ Dealt with tax matters, drafted contracts, registered documents and dealt with minutes and articles of association.

Legal Advisor

from 04.1997 to 01.1999 (1 year 10 months)
Staroslov'yansʹka, Kyiv (Legal)

Provided legal advice to this importer of oil products:

✔ Drafted and assisted with the execution of international contracts for the delivery oil products.
✔ Represented the company in the courts of national jurisdictions regarding debt collections.
✔ Drafted articles of association, minutes of shareholder meetings, and registered documents.

Education

De Montfort University

Master of Laws, LL.M., Leicester, United Kingdom
Higher, from 2011 to 2013 (2 years)

Business Law

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Master of Laws, LL.M., Kyiv, Ukraine
Higher, from 1994 to 1999 (5 years)

International Private Law, Company Law, Contracts Law, International Arbitration

Additional education and certificates

International Legal English Certificate, University of Cambridge

2010

Medial Law Institute, Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM)

2007

Certificate of Right to Practice Law, Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA)

2000

Knowledge and skills

• MS Office
• Corporate law
• Кримінальне право
• Вирішення спорів
• Міжнародний арбітраж
• Корпоративне супроводження
• Legal Advisor
• Contract Law
• Commercial Litigation
• International Business Law
• Regulatory Compliance
• Due Diligence

Language proficiencies

• English — fluent
• Ukrainian — fluent
• German — beginner
• Polish — beginner

Additional information

Attorney at Law, advocate licensed at the National Bar Association of Ukraine, with a total experience of 25 years, seven of them in the IT industry.
I draft contracts and legal documents for the IT industry.
I work with corporate law on the matters of a company set up in different jurisdictions, opening banking accounts, drafting corporate documents, etc.
I also protect clients' interests at international arbitration institutions and commercial litigation.

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