Oleksiy

ALEKSEY
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Career Experience:

Since March 2022

August 2020- February 2022

December 2012-
June 2020

Private legal practice (Estonia)
• Coordination of legal services in foreign jurisdictions
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Germany, the US, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana, Togo, Philippines, Vietnam, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, etc.

Focus on corporate and tax, top management contracts, financial settlements and international payments, market expansion.
Industries: internet marketing and advertising, MLM, affiliate marketing

Private legal practice
• advising IT company on relocation to the EU and expansion to the Brazilian market (incorporation, shareholders agreement, investment attraction, banking, and tax structuring, work permits, etc.)
• advising cosmetics and dietary supplements distributors on the structuring of sales in the EU (corporate structuring & tax issues) incl. US, LatAm, Africa, and Korea
• IP issues for plant varieties registration (representation before regulator)

Investment Fund/Family Office
Deputy general director/ General Counsel
Key sectors: FMCG, agriculture, plastic and packaging production, startup & venture
Jurisdictions: CIS, UK, BVI, Cayman, Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, Uzbekistan, USA

• corporate affairs JSCs, LLCs (M&A, post-acquisition restructuring, antitrust compliance, top management agreements), board member of English LLC.
• restructuring of holding companies involving offshore and onshore jurisdictions
• interactions with international banks
• contract drafting and negotiations under Ukrainian, Russian and English law
• legal support of Startup projects:
• development of new materials (Nanofibers) – a member of the board of directors
• online gaming project (Latvia, BVI, Cyprus)
• dispute resolution: land law, a dispute involving IP, and shareholders' agreement
• development of tax strategy (HNWI and corporate) incl. CFC rules compliance
• legal matters for individuals (migration, dual citizenship, inheritance, jet, yacht)

July 2010 –
November 2012

Oct. 2009 –
June 2010

June 2007 –
Sept. 2009
Investment and asset management company, health care products, real estate.
Deputy general director / General Counsel

• managing corporate work (incl. SAP, M&A, liquidation, restructuring, and delisting) in European jurisdictions (Switzerland, Austria, UK, Lithuania, the Netherlands), USA, CIS (mainly Ukraine and Russia), and offshore zones (BVI, Cyprus, Seychelles, Belize, Guernsey, Jersey)
• managing dispute resolution process (corporate, contractual, labor) in ICC, Cyprus, and the UK incl. teamwork with forensic expert
• legal support in the process of “opening” new markets (product certification, import, and tax aspects)
• managing contract work under Ukrainian, Russian, Swiss, English, and Cyprus law

Private practice
• negotiation of a joint venture agreement between Japanese and Russian producers of medical appliances
• advising telecom company (regulatory matters)

Dutch telecommunication company, Senior legal counsel
(Kyiv, Amsterdam, Moscow, St. Petersburg), Legal support of the company in CEE&CIS

May 2006 –
June 2006

June 2003 –
July 2005

Career Experience cont’d:

• acquisition of broadband operator and legal support during post-acquisition restructuring, corporate work across CIS
• inter-company financing (transborder loans: tax and currency control aspects, double tax treaties), export-import of equipment
• regulatory work (incl. licensing, data protection, equipment certification, and telecom start-up in Ukraine and Kazakhstan)
• legal support of the project for reconstruction and data center start-up
• organization of contractual work incl. drafting of standard contracts, contract negotiations, implementing best practice corporate standards and policies
• organization of claim-related work (incl. representation at the court)
• trademark issues
• migration and labor law (conflict resolution)

Law firm “Brödermann & Jahn” (Hamburg, Germany), Intern lawyer

Personally contributed to:
• intellectual property transactions (Germany, EU, US, Canada)
• research in various cross-border legal issues, including EU corporate law problems (companies’ incorporation in the UK and its activity in the EU)
• international commercial arbitration cases i.e. corporate disputes, insurance, IT/IP industry

Holding company (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Main business: real estate, hotel service, production of electronic appliances,
import of electronic goods, transportation, insurance
Lawyer
• realizing tax-planning schemes with residents and offshore companies on
Cypr­­­­­­­us, BVI, the Netherlands, etc.
• foreign investment registration (tax aspects), compliance with the FATF rules
• legal representation at the arbitration court
(including the High Commercial Court of Ukraine)
• drafting of internal company policies
• Worked for the group for supporting innovations (IP law project)
• preparing memoranda on IP-related matters
• drafting licensing agreements, and service contracts for implementing know-how, registering trademarks
Involved jurisdictions UK, Hong Kong, Philippines, Ukraine, Russia

Education

October 2005 – October 2006

Sept. 2000 – June 2005
University of Hamburg (Germany),
LL.M. Asian-European Business Transactions
Specialization: International Commercial Contracts and Conflict Management

Faculty of Law of The National University of Ukraine
Postgraduate Diploma of Law (with honors)
Specializations: Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Antitrust Law

Languages:

English (fluent), German (intermediate), Chinese-Mandarin (basic), Estonian (basic), Ukrainian (native), Russian (native)