Arzinger

Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Antitrust & Competition, Relations with State Authorities, Insolvency, Restructuring, and Enforcement of Judgments

Founding Partner, Attorney-At-Law, LL.D., Merited Lawyer of Ukraine, Head of Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Competition, GR.

From 2015 till 2018 Sergii held the position of Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine for Enforcement Service. He was responsible for the implementation of the institute of private bailiffs in Ukraine. During 2016–2017, he supervised the representation of the interests of the State in courts, insolvency, and forensic examinations, as well as the representation of the State in foreign jurisdictional bodies. During that period, Sergii was a procedural supervisor in more than 50 disputes, including under ICSID, ICC, SCC, UNCITRAL, and LCIA Rules.

Apart from legal consulting, Sergii worked in executive positions in large companies, in particular British Petroleum, where he led the Corporate Law and Property Group, as well as in the civil service. Sergii worked in the Office for Investigation of Offences on the Securities Market and the Law Enforcement of the State Commission for Securities and Stock Market as well as in the State Tax Administration. He was Partner at Hartmann&Рartners International Law Firm for three years; headed the Legal Department of Monolit Corporation.

Education & Academic Career

Advanced doctoral degree (LL.D.), awarded for the thesis “Control over observance of legislation on protection of economic competition in Ukraine: Administrative and legal principles of organization and functioning.”

Doctoral degree (Dr. jur.), awarded for the thesis “Protection of Rights and Interests of Business Entities in Legal Relations with the Bodies of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.”

English, Russian, Ukrainian, German

International Bar Association (IBA) Ukrainian Bar Association Kyiv City Bar Society of German and Ukrainian Lawyers CEО Club

Institute of International Relations, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Master’s degree in International Law (Diploma in International Private Law), Interpreter of German

Vienna Economics University (a course in International Trade and Tax Law).

Odesa National Economic University (major in Economics of Enterprises)

Ukrainian Corporate Governance Academy.

Sergii is Senior Lecturer on competition law at the Branch Law Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (since 01.09.2010).

Sergii has graduated from Aspen Institute Kyiv in 2018 (https://aspeninstitutekyiv.org/en/).

Theme of the seminar “Justice, Law and society”.