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  
• Recognized as Global Elite Thought Leader - Asset Recovery 2023-2024; Thought Leader – GIR – Asset Recovery 2023, Thought Leader – Commercial Litigation 2023-2024, Thought Leader – Asset Recovery 2022, as well as Global Leader – Asset Recovery (2023-2017) and Commercial Litigation (2022-2020), Who’s Who Legal
• Cross-Border Litigation and Private Clients are recognized as Leaders of practice. Top positions, "Market leaders. Rating of the Ukrainian Law Firms – 2023" by Yurydychna Gazeta 
• Cross-Border Litigation practice recognised as "Leaders of practice. Top positions” by “Market leaders. Rating of the Ukrainian law firms 2023” by Yurydychna Gazeta 
• Recommended in International Arbitration, Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation, Best Lawyers (2022-2015) 
• The only Ukrainian lawyer recognised in Europe ‘40 Outstanding Up and Comers’, Chambers Europe (2014)