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SVITLANA BICHUK
Area Legal Leader:
Corporate & Commercial & Compliance

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Address: Kyiv, Ukraine. Date of birth: 1986
Languages:
Ukrainian - Native | English - C1 | Polish - Basic

Legal & Compliance Leader with 15+ years of experience in multinational environments, currently
leading corporate, commercial, compliance fields. Act as a key legal partner to local and regional
leadership, working closely with HQ (London) and cross-functional teams to enable business
growth, mitigate risk. Known for combining strong legal expertise with business-oriented thinking
and the ability to translate complex legal matters into clear, actionable decisions.
Proven track record in:
- structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements incl. cross border;
- - building and implementing compliance frameworks (Speak Up, ABAC, sanctions, due diligence);
- leading corporate governance transformations and optimization projects;
- managing legal teams and external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.

Skills
• Corporate Governance • AML, CFT, KYC • Negotiation & Engagement
• Legal Expertise • Data Privacy • Workshops & Training
• Compliance Expertise • Policies Implementation • Team Building & Management

Work History
Nov 2023 – Area Legal Counsel: Corporate, Operation & Compliance
Current British American Tobacco, Kyiv, Ukraine

• Lead corporate, operational and compliance legal support in a complex multinational
business environment, partnering closely with other functions, local leadership, regional teams,
HQ (in London).
• Provide legal support across governance, commercial arrangements, labour, customs-
Jan 2019 – related matters, data protection, permits/licences and business-critical operational issues.
• Act as a key legal partner in cross-functional projects involving Marketing, Trade, Supply
Chain, Finance and HR.

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• Structured and negotiated complex commercial agreements supporting business operations
and partnerships.
• Oversee corporate governance matters, including general meetings, statutory
documentation, regulatory reporting/disclosures and interaction with public authorities.
• Full legal support on labor cases (employment contracts, internal orders, job descriptions,
warnings, reprimands, dismissals) and ensure strict adherence of labour legislation and internal
policies.
• Strengthened compliance culture and controls, including business conduct trainings,
conflicts management, sanctions and Speak Up frameworks.
• Successfully led a project on launching Third Party due diligence with the risk mitigation
action plans.
• Public Official (government) engagement, ad-hoc legal support in matters of official requests
and internal audits proceeded by different authorities, Dawn Raid BCP.
• Legal support of the military reservation procedure and other martial law issues.
• Managed and developed legal team supporting multiple business functions, manage
external stakeholders, incl. governmental, outside counsel, auditors.
• Support legal operations and process improvement initiatives, including legal tech tools,
internal knowledge resources and employee training programmes.

Jan 2019 – Legal Counsel: Compliance
Nov 2023 British American Tobacco, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Collaboration with global compliance and sanction teams to ensure local implementation of
global procedures.
• Organizing proper workshops, training and communication campaigns for employees.
• Drafting and revision of internal compliance procedures and policies.
• Overall Compliance Cycle Calendar management and executing.
• Researching and evaluating compliance risk factors affecting business, applying effective risk
management techniques and offered proactive advice on possible legal issues.
• Organization of Standard of Business Conduct Sign off process and conflicts of interest
clearance and mitigation action implementation.
• Arrangement of Speak Up Campaign, whistleblowing case and investigation process
management.
• Anti-bribery and Corruption Third Party check, monitoring and control of reassessment
process • Support on Sanction issues.
• Management of Gift procedure and Tracker; Engaging with Integrity policy; Personal Data
processing management.
• Support on State Authorities requests/inspections management, Dawn Raid BCP plan
testing.
• Participation in projects, legal tech solutions and compliance processes automatization
rollout.

Nov 2017 –
Head of the Legal Control Department & Compliance Officer for financial
Dec 2018
transactions monitoring, AML

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ULF-FINANCE LLC, Kyiv, Ukraine

• Full legal support to the business in order to comply with the current legislation and internal
compliance procedures and policies.
• The model contracts drafting and analysis to the relevance of market conditions.
• Participation in the development of projects, cooperation with contractors and clients.
• Optimization of products and business processes and their compliance.
• Preparation of internal normative documents: policies, regulations, guidance, etc.
• Analysis and updating of the internal normative base according to the current legislation.
• Participation in business negotiations.
• Monitoring and analysis of financial transactions on laundering preventing.
• Interaction with public authorities.
• Drafting internal regulatory documents and control over its compliance.
• Compliance with the legislation and international treaties in the field of AML.
• Training for employees and inspections of all divisions of the company.
• Development and launch of automated risk assessment of third parties.

Jun 2013 – Legal Advisor
Nov 2017 Ukrainian Leasing Fund LLC, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Business consulting and legal support
• Contracts work (drafting, revision, negotiation)
• Interaction with public authorities, claim-related activities

Nov 2010 – Lawyer
Sep 2013 SG Equipment Leasing Ukraine LLC (Société Generale branch)
• Legal support and contracts work.
• Claim-related activities.

Education

2005 – 2010 Master of Law: Intellectual Property Law
National Technical University оf Ukraine “KPI” – Kyiv.

Selected Executive Education & Certifications

Regulatory Compliance (2023). University of Pennsylvania
English Common Law: Structure and Principles (2013). University of London
AML & Financial Monitoring (2017). State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine
The Law of the European Union (2013). Leiden University
The Basics of Intellectual Property (2011). World Intellectual Property Organization