Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office

Andrii Moskalyk is a partner at the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie with the M&A and corporate practice group, primarily focusing on oil & gas, energy, mining and infrastructure projects (EMI), including public-private partnerships (PPPs) and other cooperation agreements between investors and the government, complex M&A and carve-out transactions in the EMI area. Andrii has more than 10 years of experience advising foreign and domestic clients on structuring, negotiating and implementing complex EMI deals in both Ukraine and abroad. Andrii joined Baker McKenzie in 2016 from Clifford Chance, where he had worked in the corporate department since 2009, both in the Kyiv and London offices. Andrii has vast experience working on complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, in particular, those involving European countries and North Africa, in such industry sectors as oil & gas, electricity generation and transmission and infrastructure. Andrii has worked extensively on structuring and institutionalizing new corporate governance models for national energy strategic companies, privatizations in the energy sector, energy M&A and PPP deals.

Anna Stepanowa

Employment & Compensation

Hennadiy Voytsitskyi

Hennadiy Voytsitskyi heads Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice Group in Kyiv, which was named Ukraine Tax Law Firm at the International Tax Review's 2016 European Tax Awards. He has more than 20 years of experience practicing in Ukrainian and international tax law. Mr. Voytsitskyi participated in a working group led by the National Bank of Ukraine on development of draft legislation for the introduction of controlled foreign companies and implementation of BEPS Actions. Mr. Voytsitskyi focuses his practice on providing sound legal advice to multinational and domestic clients on international tax planning and tax structuring matters, including cross-border inbound and outbound investment, tax controversy and litigation and wealth management concerns. Most recently, he has been heavily involved in advising clients on strategy negotiations and appealing against decisions and other acts and inquiries of tax authorities and tax police, including participation in litigation against tax authorities and tax police.

Ihor Siusel

Ihor Siusel has more than 15 years of practical experience, 12 of which as a legal advisor in major local and international law firms where he consistently practiced law in dispute resolution, namely international and domestic arbitration, litigation, enforcement of court judgments and arbitral awards and bankruptcy law. Mr. Siusel advises and represents local and foreign clients in commercial, real estate, construction, corporate, IP, tax, customs, labor, insurance, loan, maritime, aviation, telecom, product liability and bankruptcy disputes, including complex cross-border disputes. His clients span a number of industries including mining, oil and gas, steel production, food production, publishing, ship building, telecom, pharma, IT, construction, transport, agriculture, distribution and retail, insurance, banking and finance.

Kseniia Prokhur

Kseniia Prokhur is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Kyiv. In addition to her professional activity, Kseniia delivers lectures on procedural law at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Kseniia represents and advises clients in various types of commercial, corporate and employment litigation in Ukraine, and has significant experience in enforcing the awards of the most prominent international arbitration institutions. Kseniia specifically focuses on challenging the acts of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and advises clients on all related legal aspects.

Lina Nemchenko

Lina Nemchenko is partner in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate Practice Group and she is head of the Kyiv Employment & Migration practice and member of the EMEA Real Estate Steering Committee of the Firm. Lina was named "Best in Real Estate" by European Women in Business Law Awards twice, and she is the only Ukrainian lawyer to ever receive this accolade. Lina has extensive experience in advising both domestic and foreign clients on a wide range of real estate and construction matters, including advising on structuring major office and shopping center acquisitions, property development projects and various land-related transactions. She also has extensive expertise in landlord-tenant relations and in advising a number of the Firm's clients on setting up real estate investment funds for investing in Ukrainian real estate. She also regularly advises clients on data protection and general labor law. Among the large international companies Lina represents are McDonald's, Boeing, Oracle, Billa Ukraine (REWE Group), IKEA, ArcelorMittal and she also advises the governments of Canada, the US and the UK. Lina is also involved in legislation drafting in the real estate and employment areas.

Mariana Marchuk

Mariana Marchuk has about 20 years of practical experience in the areas of labor and migration, compliance and anti-corruption, commercial and international trade law, M&A and pharmaceutical regulation. Ms. Marchuk joined Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office in 1997 as an associate. From 1999 to 2004 she worked in Moscow, as an associate for a major Wall Street law firm and subsequently for Baker McKenzie. In 2004, she returned to the Firm’s Kyiv office and in 2010 she became a counsel. Ms. Marchuk advises Ukrainian and foreign clients on labor and migration law, focusing on employee compensation, terminations, transfers, data protection, and employee privacy. She is also experienced in dispute resolution and internal investigations, compliance and anti-corruption, international trade and commerce, consumer protection, mergers and acquisitions, information technology, and in matters concerning the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.

Nadiia Filozop

Energy & Infrastructure

Oksana Simonova

Oksana Simonova is a partner in the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie with over 12 years of experience in advising clients on a wide range of sophisticated cross-border transactions. In 2012, she was appointed to lead the Kyiv office’s Competition and Pharmaceuticals practice groups. Ms. Simonova advises international clients on Ukrainian merger control and competition law issues (including in the pharmaceuticals industry). She also has broad experience in various corporate finance transactions (including syndicated lending, Eurobonds and IPOs). She has worked on numerous international capital markets offerings from Ukraine and led the local legal team on the first main market London Stock Exchange listing of a mining company from Ukraine. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial law matters.

Oleksiy Stolyarenko

Oleksiy Stolyarenko is the Head of the IT/TMT industry group in the Kyiv office. A partner focusing on complex IP/IT, copyright, trademarks, patents, domain names, internet & technology matters (including protection of privacy & information), Oleksiy is well versed in issues related to technology transactions, start-ups, innovative services and products. He represents clients before the courts of Ukraine in trademark and patent litigation matters and carries out anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting campaigns. Oleksiy joined Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie in 2008 from the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine, where he worked in the copyright division. He frequently participates in the Firm`s Pro Bono projects and was awarded with the Firm`s RED award in 2015. Oleksiy Stolyarenko practices on all aspects of intellectual property, information technology, personal data protection, consumer protection, e-commerce and advertising law. He has extensive experience guiding clients through IP and IT law challenges in the IT, consumer electronics, media, wine and spirits, confectionery, food, and beverage, pharma, FMCG, chemical production and banking industries in Ukraine.

Olga Mikheieva

Olga Mikheieva is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Competition and Antitrust practice group with over 20 years' experience of advising on various issues concerning competition and antitrust law. Olga holds a PhD degree from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. Within the area of competition and antitrust, Olga focuses mainly on Ukrainian merger control, concerted actions and various competition law infringements. Her experience also includes pharmaceuticals, corporate and commercial law matters.

Ruslan Drobyazko

Ruslan Drobyazko heads the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Kyiv. Throughout his career, Mr. Drobyazko participated in many international and national conferences and seminars regarding intellectual property and commercial law issues. Ruslan provides comprehensive services in connection with structuring transactions related to intellectual property and information technologies. He secures the intellectual property rights of its clients in Ukraine and protect clients against unfair businesses.

Serhiy Piontkovsky

Serhiy Piontkovsky is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Kyiv office, where he heads the Firm's Energy, Chemicals, Mining and Infrastructure and Real Estate practice groups. Serhiy is heavily involved in major privatization projects in Ukraine within the steel, mining, energy and industrial sectors. He has acted in numerous M&A transactions, including the acquisition of Ukrainian enterprises in the privatization process, particularly those via commercial tenders organized by the State Property Fund. In the real estate sector, Serhiy represents major international hotel chains, developers, construction companies, investment funds, embassies, religious organizations and private investors on various Ukrainian law issues related to property pre-lease and long-term leasing, acquisition of land lease rights, construction, design and letting.

Serhiy Chorny

Serhiy Chorny is a co-managing partner of the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie and head of the Kyiv office's Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Group. Serhiy's primary focus vests in cross-border lending, structured finance, securitization, debt capital markets and debt restructuring. His clients include international financial institutions, major international banks and their subsidiaries in Ukraine, Eurobond issuance arrangers, state-owned and privately owned Ukrainian commercial banks, other financial institutions, international payment systems and a broad array of significant and mid-sized Ukrainian borrowers, issuers and security providers. Serhiy has successfully led a number of landmark transactions in the Ukrainian market, including debut Eurobond issuances, pioneering international securitizations and significant debt restructurings.

Viacheslav Yakymchuk

Viacheslav Yakymchuk is a co-managing partner of the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie and heads the Firm’s Corporate/M&A and Private Equity Practice Groups in the Kyiv office. He also served as assistant corporate counsel in Europe for Archer Daniels Midland from 2005 to 2008. He frequently speaks on the diverse aspects of M&A and private equity transactions in Ukraine. Viacheslav is admitted to practice in Ukraine and in New York, USA. Viacheslav is seasoned in handling European M&A transactions and has extensive experience in private equity and equity capital markets. His client focus is on the industrial and TMT sectors.

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