KM Partners

Partner, Attorney At Law. Specializes in a wide range of tax and customs issues, litigation, investments and foreign economic activity, intellectual property, trade and distribution, labour issues. Alexander Shemiatkin has practical experience in business structuring, tax planning, contractual relations structuring, especially in the field of trade and distribution, cross-border transactions, agreements related to royalties' payment and software use. He is especially strong in tax and customs litigation, disputes on protection of the intellectual property rights and labour. He has more than 100 professional publications in mass media on topical issues of taxation, customs and dispute resolution. Alexander takes an active part in law-making activities of KM Partners. He is one of the authors of the draft law on amending the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding the Exit Capital Tax. He is the author of variety of articles and participant of the range of meetings with representatives of the governmental authorities and the public regarding the introduction of Exit Capital Tax in Ukraine. Alexander also took part in elaboration and adoption of the draft law on the creation of a taxpayer’s e-cabinet.

Alexander Minin

Senior Partner of the firm, Attorney At Law, heading Tax and Consulting Department. Specializes in taxation and tax litigation, customs law, investments, transfer pricing, dispute resolution,complex business structuring and reorganizational issues, criminal cases on white collar crimes. Alexander has more than 20 years of professional experience in the area of taxation and tax litigation. His professional portfolio includes more than 300 successful cases and projects on tax and customs law, support of large investment projects, tax structuring and reorganization projects, as well as precedent court cases. Recently he has been heavinly involved in large consulting and investment projects, prominent tax litigations and criminal preceedings on white collar crimes. Alexander is actively involved in many public projects legislative initiatives related to reform of taxation in Ukraine, among which are "No to article 212 of the Criminal code"; "Motivation of the court decisions in tax diputes" ; "Tax dispute vs. crime" ; "Tax reform"; «Draft Law № 3448»; “Natural human rights. The right to peaceful assembly as a way of protection of natural human rights”; “Fact in question in administrative legal proceedings: from protection of an individual to procedural nihilism” and others. Alexander is the author of more than 200 publications and professional comments in mass media on taxation, customs law, disputes resolution, criminal law etc. He is an active participant of professional and business conferences, round tables and forums. He participates in profile committees of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and the European Business Association, German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and is a member of the Ukrainian Bar Association. Over many years Alexander Minin has been consistently included into Top 100 of the best practicing Ukrainian lawyers and has been recognized as one of the most authoritative tax professionals in Ukraine. In 2020 Alexander Minin was named the Best Lawyers® 2021 Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in Ukraine.

Alexander Shvorak

Principle Counsel, Attorney At Law. The main areas of Alexander’s practice are commercial law, trade & distribution and competition law. He is a specialist in the sphere of commercial law, structuring of contractual relationships, consulting on general commercial issues of business activity, performing due diligence of companies and separate business objects. He has experience of consulting support of projects in the sphere of real estate and construction and land issues.

Andrii Denysenko

Senior Of Counsel. Andrii Denysenko specializes in tax issues and regulatory disputes resolution. Andrii has experience in carrying out the maintenance of pre-trial and court appealing of decisions and actions (inactions) of tax authorities. Besides, he advises on tax issues, structuring of contractual relations in terms of taxation.

Anna Kravchuk

Senior Of Counsel, Attorney at Law. Anna Kravchuk specializes in intellectual property issues, labour disputes and disputes with public authorities. Anna is experienced in both judicial and non-judicial protection of intellectual property rights, registration of intellectual property rights, judicial and non-judicial settlement of disputes that arise in the field of labour law, appeal against additional tax payments, handling disputes with public authorities.

Elena Bukuyeva

Partner, Attorney At Law. Specializes in taxation, customs law, foreign trade, intellectual property, distribution, administrative litigation, criminal cases. Elena has profound experience in consulting clients of different spheres of the economy such as agriculture, real estate and construction, energy, IT and telecommunications, FMCG, pharmaceuticals. Besides her consulting practice, Elena successfully represents clients in court disputes with state authorities. She has been a certified attorney in Ukraine and represents clients in criminal cases on white collar crimes as well. Elena is also a specialist and author of articles on intellectual property issues. Elena is recommended by the international ranking The Legal 500 EMEA 2019 in white-collar crimes practice. In 2018-2020 she has been recognized as one of the leading lawyers in tax law in Ukraine by the reputable ranking Best Lawyers.

Inna Taptunova

Partner, Attorney At Law. Specializes in taxation and tax planning matters, disputes with state authorities, use of natural resources and mining, trade and distribution, intellectual property. Recent work includes consulting projects for restructuring activities in Ukraine, mergers and acquisitions, structuring of profit repatriation, taxation of foreigners in Ukraine. Inna has also considerable practical experience in support of clients during tax audits and administrative appeals against tax bodies. Inna takes an active part in law-making activities of KM Partners. In particular, she took part in the drafting of the laws on the exit capital tax, the taxpayer’s e-cabinet, the Temporary register of applications for budget refunds and other. Inna is also the author of the publication “Transformation of tax on profit of the enterprises in exit capital tax”, 2016, issued with the support of the European Information and Research Center and USAID, and author of a number of other articles related to taxation and tax reform in Ukraine. In 2018-2020 Inna has been recognized as one of the leading lawyers in tax law in Ukraine by the reputable ranking Best Lawyers.

Ivan Shynkarenko

Partner, Attorney at Law, PhD. in Economics, heading Customs and Trasfer Pricing department. Specializes in tax and customs law, transfer pricing, investments, foreign economic activity, trade and distribution. He has profound experience in various consulting projects in such sectors as agroindustry, real estate and construction, IT and telecommunications, finance and investments, chemistry and food industry, transport, machinery construction, fuel and energy, ecology and biotechnology, pharmaceutics. Ivan is the author of more than 20 theoretic and practical articles on urgent issues of taxation and customs regulation.

Mariia Kozlenko

Principle Counsel, Attorney at Law. Maria’s main practice is tax litigation. Maria has an experience in carrying out the maintenance of administrative (pre-trial) and court appealing of decisions and actions (inactions) of tax authorities for big companies of agricultural sector, FMСG market as well as companies of fuel-power sector. Besides, Maria also has an experience in consulting on taxation issues as well as conduct of tax due diligence of business operations for companies of agricultural sector and FMСG market.

Maxim Oleksiyuk

Partner, Attorney At Law, heading Legal Department. Specializes in real estate and consruction, land law, litigation, corporate and commercial law; is an expert in contract and business law, commodity trade, agricultural production and trade, antitrust and competition issues, maritime shipping and transport (including deals on stevedoring companies). Has successful practice in commercial litigation.

Olena Medvedieva

Senior Of Counsel, Attorney at Law. Olena Medvedieva specializes in tax issues and regulatory disputes resolution. She has experience in carrying out the maintenance of pre-trial (administrative) and court appealing of actions (inactions) and decisions of state authorities for companies of agricultural sector and food industry. Olena performs analysis and checking of accounting records of clients, preparation of procedural documents.

Tetiana Poberezhska

Principle Counsel, Attorney at Law. Tetiana Poberezhska specializes in labour and taxation issues, tax planning, labour disputes and disputes with state authorities. Tetiana has experience in structuring of payments on remuneration of labour for tax purposes, elaboration of local acts on labour issues, audits on compliance with labour legislation conducted by state authorities. Tetiana advises clients on labour matters, and specializes on extrajudicial and judicial settlement of labour disputes. Besides, Tetiana deals with issues of taxation of individuals, particularly, declaration of foreigners’ income, cash record keeping and compliance with cash discipline by enterprises.

Viktoriia Shevchenko

Senior Of Counsel. Viktoriia specializes in transfer pricing and customs law. Viktoriia has experience in preparation of documentation on transfer pricing, and also in implementation of the economic and functional analysis of controlled operations. Such work in transfer pricing Viktoria combines with consultation on customs issues, in particular court disputes with customs authorities.

Viktoriia Minets

Principle Counsel, Attorney at Law. Victoria Minets specializes in real estate and land matters and as well as having valuable experience in the fields of merger and acquisition and corporate law. Victoria’s professional activity involves participation in large-scale restructuring projects, including structuring and support of share transfer agreements, elaboration and implementation of corporate management and control mechanisms, transfer of real estate and other assets, transfer of software and other intellectual property, transfer of agreements and permissive documents. Victoria advises clients on business issues related to land possession, lease relations, subsoil use, and construction; also she provides support in judicial disputes connected with the abovementioned issues.

Yaroslava Ivasyuk

Principle Counsel, Attorney at Law. Specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and competition. Besides, Yaroslava has a significant experience in labour law. In particular, her recent work includes various consulting projects of establishing representative offices in Ukraine, investment activities, establishing, reorganization and liquidation of companies, corporate management, elaboration and registration of loan agreements with the National Bank of Ukraine. Yaroslava also specializes in judicial and non-judicial settlement of labour disputes and advises clients on labour issues on regular basis.

Yuliia Kryvomaz

Senior Of Counsel, Attorney at Law. Kryvomaz Yuliia specializes in regulatory disputes resolution. Also Yuliia provides legal support in the declaration campaign of individuals, both citizens of Ukraine and foreigners, including determination and justification of individual’s tax residency status, analysis of applicability of international treaties of Ukraine on avoidance of double taxation, legal support in communication with tax authorities, including receipt of confirmation of the amounts of taxes received in Ukraine and appeal against potential tax assessments. Yuliia has experience in carrying out the maintenance of pre-trial (administrative) and court appealing of actions (inactions), provides analysis and audit of the accounting documents. Also Yuliia has experience in preparing the procedural documents.

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