Dentons

Anna Tkachenko is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. She concentrates on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, employment and contract issues. She advises multinational companies on the establishment of their subsidiaries and representative offices in Ukraine, on their investment projects in Ukraine and on acquisitions of Ukrainian companies.

Artem Lukyanov

Artem Lukyanov is a senior associate in Dentons’ Kyiv office with major focus on banking, finance and debt restructuring. Artem' practice covers wide range of matters affecting financial institutions banks, as well as IT and FinTech companies. Artem’s expertise covers cross-border financing and debt restructuring transactions, distressed debt trading, payment services, e-money and regulatory issues such as sanctions and currency control regulation. He also has vast experience in dispute resolution and focuses on representing international and Ukrainian clients in respect of the debt recovery, enforcement and insolvency proceedings. In addition, he has a solid background in taxes and corporate law. Artem also has sound transactional skills and knowledge of LMA standard documentation (both financing and secondary debt trading) and assists from time to time with financing transactions run by different Dentons offices. He pursued his PGDip (Law) at the University of Law.

Evgenia Prudko

Evgenia Prudko is a legal advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office with major focus on antitrust and competition issues, including obtaining merger clearance, unfair competition, advising on concerted practices. She provides clients with comprehensive advice in order to avoid antitrust and competition issues or investigations. Her antitrust practice also includes providing tailored compliance advice as well as conducting audits and risk assessments. Evgenia helps clients achieve their objectives by incorporating antitrust and competition law in their business practices. Evgenia has almost 20 years of experience in advising both international and local clients on competition, compliance, corporate, M&A, and employment issues. She provides legal support to the clients on corporate restructurings, problematic individual dismissals, transfers of businesses, employment restructurings, including outsourcing projects, joint-venture establishment etc. Her client base includes large national and international corporations, companies in food, feed and agribusiness, financial institutions and private equity firms. Evgenia is a regular speaker at various events and conferences in and outside of Ukraine as well as an author of publications. Evgenia is a Deputy Head of the Law Committee and Committee for Feed, Food and Agriculture by the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.

Igor Davydenko KC

Igor Davydenko is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office. He has proven experience in legal practice, including the coaordination of legal issues in major financial and commercial organizations. Igor has been working in the Kyiv office for the last 30 years. During this period he was involved in more than 300 multimillion complex transactions in different areas in Ukraine. He concentrates on matters of Ukrainian tax, civil and corporate law.

Igor Svitlyk

Igor Svitlyk is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a member of Dentons’ Corporate Practice Group. Specifically, Igor specializes in the Life Sciences, Privacy, and Anti-Corruption Compliance. Igor regularly advises foreign pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations with respect to various legal issues and represents their interests before Ukrainian state authorities.

Ihor Mehedynyuk

Ihor V. Mehedynyuk is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office. He advises clients on various matters of Ukrainian securities law, land and real estate law, corporate law, M&A and transaction structuring, secured transactions, tax law and employment law, as well as on matters of Ukrainian law governing specific Ukrainian industries and sectors, including specifically the mining of mineral resources, telecommunications, TV and radio broadcasting, agriculture and industrial construction.

Maksym Sysoiev

Maksym Sysoiev is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a member of Dentons’ Global Energy Group. Maksym regularly advises foreign and local companies with respect to various legal issues and advises clients on their local and cross-border transactions and represents their interests before Ukrainian State authorities as well as support energy clients and their projects worldwide. He is a recognized legal expect in the sphere of energy and possess a considerable experience in advising regarding conventional and renewable energy sources. Maksym is a board member of the Ukrainian Bioenergy Association, and a legal expert at the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. He actively participates on behalf of the Firm in many public organizations, including the European Business Association and American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

Nadiya Shylienkova

Nadiya Shylienkova is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Nadiya has extensive experience in finance transactions with focus on advising foreign and local clients on cross-border financings, debt restructuring and distressed asset acquisitions, export finance, transactions with securities, banking regulatory issues and debt capital markets transactions, structured finance and derivatives. In addition, Nadiya elaborates legal solutions for the clients on various issues relating to FinTech and other innovative technologies in finance sector. Recently Nadiya is actively involved in financing and restructuring transactions by IFIs.

Natalia Selyakova

Natalia Selyakova is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office and Head of Dentons’ Banking and Finance, Restructuring and Insolvency practices in Ukraine. Natalia has in-depth knowledge of Ukrainian and international law and practice, complex international transactions and instruments. She has acted as lead counsel in numerous transactions involving syndicated finance, project finance, trade finance, Eurobonds issues, FinTech, M&A and settlements, debt restructuring and insolvency matters.

Natalia Levchuk

Natalia Levchuk is a senior associate in Dentons' Kyiv office. Natalia has more than 15 years’ experience in legal matters related to real estate, environment, land, agriculture, energy and natural resources, as well as privatization. She advises international and local companies, including energy companies, natural resources producers, international developers, FMCG companies, and financial institutions on the acquisition of real estate and land, lease and preliminary lease agreements, and transaction structuring. She provides legal support to the construction sector, including drafting and negotiating agreements and providing legal advice on regulatory and other issues.

Oksana Horban

Oksana Horban is a counsel at Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a registered patent attorney of Ukraine. Oksana has considerable experience (more than 15 years) in providing the full range of IP-related services. Oksana advises clients from a broad range of sectors on all aspects of the IP protection, specifically, she does trademark and patent filing and prosecution, drafts IP-related agreements, conducts IP due-diligence, represents clients before the Chamber of Appeals of the Ukrainian Patent and Trademark Office and Ukrainian courts.

Oleg Batyuk KC

Oleg Batyuk is the Ukraine Managing Partner and Head of the Ukrainian Corporate Practice in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Oleg is one of the leading lawyers in Ukraine. He has substantial experience advising international and domestic clients on foreign investments in Ukraine, joint ventures, loan arrangements, banking regulations and transactions on international capital markets. Oleg has advised major international companies and financial institutions on key infrastructure projects in Ukraine. He has been engaged as an expert witness on Ukrainian legal matters in several high-profile litigation and arbitration proceedings in England, USA, Canada and Sweden.

Oleg Kuchanskyy

Oleg Kuchanskyy is a counsel in Dentons' Kyiv office. As a member of the Global Real Estate Group, Oleg has extensive experience advising on the development projects of international companies in Ukraine. He also specialises in general corporate and commercial law. Oleg has gained considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions, participating in a number of deals involving international banks.

Valeria Tarasenko

Valeria Tarasenko is a tax advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a member of the Firm’s Tax Group. Valeria specializes in tax law and settlement of tax disputes. She advises national and multinational companies on tax structuring and tax planning, assessment of tax risks, cross-border taxation and application of international tax treaties as well as on matters related to OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Valeria has extensive experience in solving tax disputes and supporting tax litigations in all phases of litigation process. Valeria was also heading successfully tax practice in one of the leading litigation law firms in Ukraine, and building its tax practice from scratch.

Volodymyr Monastyrskyy

Volodymyr Monastyrskyy is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office and a member of Dentons’ global corporate, real estate, antitrust, employment, energy, infrastructure, and life sciences groups. He has a vast experience in international and local M&A transactions, setting up joint ventures, development of real estate, infrastructure, and energy projects, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, commercial and trade, financing, taxation and operation of financial institutions. Volodymyr also heads the firm’s employment practice in Ukraine.

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