Professional Expertise
- Co-Head of Cross-Border Litigation
- Has represented sovereigns, corporates and private clients in close to every kind of dispute resolution including national and cross-border litigation, transnational insolvency and receivership, asset tracing and recovery, fraud investigation, enforcement of mortgages and pledges (including against shareholdings in Ukrainian companies), contentious inheritance and divorce, commercial and investment arbitration under the major institutional and ad hoc rules, as well as recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial and arbitral awards
- Has sat as an arbitrator and frequently acts as the Ukrainian law expert in civil and criminal proceedings in the US, the UK, British Virgin Islands, Monaco, Cyprus and Switzerland, as well as in the arbitration proceedings under the ICSID rules
Industry Focus
- Agriculture
- Energy
- Defense and Military Cooperation
- Banking and Financial Services
Clients
Burford Capital, Cargill Financial Services International Inc., NPC Ukrenergo, Mironivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), Vetropack Holding, EuroCape New Energy Limited, Emergy AS, Euroins Ukraine, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, Bank Frick & Co. AG, Eclipse Resources GmbH
Professional Appointments
- Arbitrator on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center
Professional Membership
- Member of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association (UAA)
- Co-founder of the Association for Asset Tracing and Recovery (Ukraine)
Education
- Institute of International Relations of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Bachelor of International Relations, 2003
- TEMPUS/TACIS scholar, Lund University (Sweden), 2003 – 2004
- Institute of International Relations of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Master of International Law, 2006
- Stockholm University, Master of International Commercial Arbitration Law, Sweden, 2009
Recognition
- Recognized as Leading Individual in Dispute Resolution, The Legal500 EMEA (2024-2014)
- Spotlight in Dispute Resolution: International (Chambers Global 2024, Chambers Europe 2024); Band 3 (Chambers Global 2022-2014, Chambers Europe 2022-2012).
- Listed in The Legal500 Arbitration Powerlist 2023: Central and Eastern Europe
- Recommended in Lexology Index: Arbitration 2025
- Recognized as Global Elite Thought Leader - Asset Recovery 2024-2023, Thought Leader – GIR – Asset Recovery 2023-2024, Thought Leader – Commercial Litigation2024-2023, Thought Leader – Asset Recovery 2022, Global Leader – Asset Recovery (2023-2017) and Commercial Litigation (2022-2020), as well as recommended in Commercial Mediation 2024, Who’s Who Legal
- International Arbitration / Cross-Border Litigation, Litigation. Mediation, Private Clients are recognized as Leaders of practice. Top positions, "Market leaders. Rating of the Ukrainian Law Firms – 2024" by Yurydychna Gazeta
- Recommended in International Arbitration, Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation, Best Lawyers (2022-2015)
- Notable Practitioner in Cross-Border Litigation, Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients (2023-2022)
- The only Ukrainian lawyer recognised in Europe ‘40 Outstanding Up and Comers’, Chambers Europe (2014)