Vasyl

VASYL KLYM
CORPORATE & TAX LAWYER | TRUSTED ADVISOR TO BUSINESSES, BOARDS & EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
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CV

VASYL I. KLYM

Personal information:

Date of birth October 16, 1984
Age 41
Marital status Married

Information on education, languages and soft skills:
Education 2007 Honours Degree Obtained: Master’s – International Lawyer,
English Translator, Kyiv Institute of International Relations
of National Taras Shevchenko University | Kyiv, Ukraine.

Language skills English: fluent, Ukrainian: native, Russian: fluent, German:
basic.

Soft Skills responsibility, result orientation, resilience, strong
analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent verbal and
written communication, ability to deliver the best possible
solutions and within the shortest terms, strong interpersonal
and negotiation skills, people management skills.

Licenses & certifications:
Bar Certificate Issued on April 23, 2009 by Kyiv City Bar Association

Professional experience:
Since May, 2009 “ArtesLex” Law Firm, Founding Partner, Attorney
(https://www.arteslex.com/category/english/news-en/,
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September, 2006 – March, 2009 “KM Partners” Law Firm, Tax and legal adviser
(https://wts.ua/en/).
Specialization (Practice areas):
Corporate, • comprehensive legal support and protection of clients’ interests within their business,
Compliance, consulting in respect of peculiarities of legislation regulating various business
Contract law, industries;
Compliance, • legal and corporate compliance;
General Business • formation and drafting of constituent documents, internal regulations and other
Support: companies’ corporate documents;
• corporate reorganization of existent companies;
• due diligence and other legal support within mergers and acquisitions, corporate
compliance and governance, corporate reorganizations, post-acquisition integration;
• drafting and negotiating of the commercial contracts, as well as their further support;
• establishing of new companies in Ukraine, the Republic of Cyprus, the UK,
the Netherlands, Germany;
• establishing of the representative offices of foreign companies;
• advising on issues of legal regulation of trade, investment, intellectual property,
GDPR, competition and antitrust rules, labour law, real estate and other issues
essential for relevant business;
• advising on the domestic laws of Ukraine, the Republic of Cyprus, Switzerland, the
UK, the Netherlands, the USA, Germany;
• representation and protection of the companies’ officials within the criminal
proceedings initiated upon white collar crimes.

Tax advising and Tax planning:
tax litigation: • consulting on the issues of Ukrainian and international taxation (in particular,
considering OECD regulations, DTT, AML, ATAD, DAC6, GILTI, MOSS, IFRS,
GAAP), as well as of domestic tax laws of the Republic of Cyprus, Switzerland, the
UK, the USA, Germany;
• tax compliance;
• structuring of the transactions with the view of taxation optimization;
• transfer pricing, CFC;
• analysis and consulting on the issues connected with tax risks of definite
transactions and operations;
• support within the business integration with BEPS standards.

Legal relations with tax authorities:
• consulting on the issues connected with peculiarities and order of tax audit
performing;
• drafting objections against tax audit acts;
• drafting claims and other documents of administrative appealing against tax
reassessments.

Representing of interests in litigation on tax disputes with tax authorities:
• drafting suits, objections and other service documents within litigation on tax
disputes with tax authorities;
• representing of interests in courts within the disputes with tax authorities.

Litigation and • mediation and the pre-trial settlement;
International • drafting suits and other service documents; representing of interests in all instances
arbitration: of the specialized courts – the commercial courts and the administrative courts; in the
courts of general jurisdiction (civil and criminal proceedings);
• consulting on general matters of international legislation as well as of international
private law and commercial arbitration;
• drafting arbitration agreements and representing of interests in international
arbitrations (courts of arbitration);
• appeals against the delivered arbitration judgments and representing of interests in
the process of recognition and execution of foreign court and arbitration judgments.
Achievements in numbers:

• provided tax and legal services to more than 500 clients of various industries;
• provided more than 5,500 legal and tax advices;
• prepared, reviewed and supported more than 2,000 contracts in the context of tax planning and
structuring, tax and legal compliance, tax and legal risks identifying;
• developed or reviewed more than 1,000 companies internal policies, regulations, charters and
other internal documents;
• supported more than 100 M&As related projects;
• prepared 47 Due Diligence Reports;
• more than EURO 50,000,000.00 have been won for the clients within commercial and civil
litigations, as well as international arbitrations arisen from business related disputes, contractual
disputes, corporate, IP, real estate related and other commercial and civil disputes;
• more than EURO 85,000,000.00 have been settled in favour of clients within the mediation (pre-
trial procedures) related with disputes arisen from business related disputes, contractual disputes,
corporate, IP, real estate related and other commercial and civil disputes;
• more than EURO 37,000,000.00 have been won for the clients within tax and customs litigations;
• more than EURO 11,000,000.00 have been settled in favour of clients within the pre-trial
procedures in respect of tax and customs disputes.