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Solutions-focused legal executive with 15+ years of experience, Legal Business Partner for international
corporations. A strategic leader with a comprehensive background in corporate and commercial law, litigation,
and compliance. Demonstrated ability to reduce, manage legal, operational, and financial risks while driving
global business objectives. Career highlights include safeguarding corporate interests against fraud, navigating
complex tax authority disputes, business transformation, people managment, system building, managing high-
stakes commercial arbitration, overseeing investment projects across the EMEA region, and being shortlisted for
the Lexology 2026 "Thought Leader of the Year" award.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Legal Counsel of Ukraine & Moldova
(till 01/07/24 – Ukraine and Eurasia)
Full legal support & managment of legal department of the Companies in
Ukraine, Moldova and Eurasia markets (GE, KZ, etc.)
• Management of the legal department in Ukraine, legal advisors, and related
11/2021 – till now functions in Ukraine, Moldova and Eurasia;
• Full corporate governance of different types of legal entities in mentioned
locations;
Mondelēz International
• Successful closing of various M&A projects in Ukraine;

• Litigation: commercial, TM, tax and criminal disputes;

• Labor law: trade unions, legal support to HR department on Plants, offices,
military section, reservation of employees;
• Sales: structuring of trade deals, antitrust coverage;

• Marketing: review of AD campaigns, support on TM's issues;

• Lobby work: close cooperation with GR team in NGO organizations,
Government bodies, agencies, etc.;

• Policy control: preparation, adaption of the global Company' policies on local
lever, supervision of execution and compliance;

• Member of the leadership team in mentioned regions;

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 General Counsel, Compliance Officer
Full legal support & management and Compliance section of the Company
in UA and EMEA
• Direct reporting line to US office, an active member of Management Team,
involved in all major business decisions;
• Management skills: managing of contract managers, risk analysts (5+);

• Reforming the Company's legal work (implementation of IT solutions, create a
new corporate structure, as well as matrix control on a corporate level, preparing
the procedure for document circulation, for risk assessment, assigning authority
to sign documents, developing mechanisms for the operation of the Risk,
Execution, Trade Departments);
• Protection of the Company's interests in tax and financial sphere (accompanying
tax audits, successful litigations against Tax Service for around 10 mln USD)

01/2017 – 11/2021 • Participation in arbitration processes on behalf of a Corporation in Ukraine and
abroad;
Agri-Trader
• Protection of the Company's interests in commercial & criminal disputes (courts,
“CHS Ukraine”
police, SSU, GPO, SBI, in fraud cases for 2.5 mln USD, successful commercial
https://www.chsinc.com/ disputes against defaulters for 1 mln USD).
• Legal support of the work of the Trade Department (preparation of draft
contracts, analysis of transaction risks, structuring of transactions for the
purchase and sale of the Goods, preparation of documentation for transactions,
advising on the export/import of the Goods;
• Providing "due diligence" of counterparties in the framework of major
transactions, as well as structuring such transactions;
• Formatted cooperation with external legal support firms: negotiations,
budgeting, controlling.
• Legal support in the Company's labor tasks;
• Organization of work Compliance department in the region, writing and adapting
internal policies, procedures corporate standards of the Company;
• Managing legal projects in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Cyprus, Turkey,
Spain;
• Communication on strategic issues directly with HQ offices: Geneva
(Switzerland) and Minneapolis (USA);

• Representing the Company's interests with NGO (ACC, EBA, etc.);

01/2016 - 01/2017 Senior Lawyer

Atlantic Group Limited Legal support of the holding company,
(AGL) which consists of 18 companies, 400+ employees in the Kyiv office

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 • Analysis of contracts, structuring potential deals, prepare contracts applications,
memorandums, different types of agreements with clients, providers, Interco-
holding companies;
• The legal assessment for the advertising, marketing activities;
• Support of holding with the tax authorities, other government authorities;
• Registration of trademarks for clients, for the holding companies.

• Full legal support for 3 holding companies: PR Agency, BTL Agency, GR Agency;
• Support on corporate tasks of holding;

• Labor legislation: the formulation of work permits, residence permits for foreign
employees holding, human resources (training of labor contracts, support of
dismissal processes, holding employees).

11/2013 – 01/2016 Lawyer

Law firm The company provides a full range of legal services for businesses in Ukraine and
abroad Ukraine. The main clients are foreign companies and large Ukrainian
“SDM PARTNERS”
companies. My responsibilities included:
• Preparation of different legal consultations under the current legislation of
Ukraine, the EU, and the US & UK;
• Protect Clients interest with the AMC Ukraine, litigation projects;
• Preparation and obtaining permits for the employment of foreign citizens;
• Full cover of Client’s corporate function needs;

10/2008 – 10/2013 Legal Counsel

PJSC CB “PrivatBank” Representation and protection of interests of the bank in all levels of the court
system of Ukraine.

Education: International Law, Magistrate, Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine;
General Law, Kyiv Economical University;

Trainings: GAFTA Arbitration, “InterLegal”, 2019; Finance Management; “Laba”, 2020;

Skills: English – Advanced;
Ukrainian – Native;

Deutsch - beginner.
Interests: Music (vinyl, playing drums), sports (football, basketball, gym), travelling, politics
and economics.

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