Legal support to IT
Attorney at Law, MBA, PhD
Certificate #2316/10 as of 26.06.03
Over 15 years in support of IT contract negotiations with foreign contractors
(Europe, US and Asian regions), including over 10 years on IT service providers side - in different roles and business domains
Varied transactions structuring - from outstaffing of IT-engineers and standardized software development processes to complex IT-infrastructure deployment projects (including further SLA based support) as well as IT solutions development by system integrators
Support of negotiations on incentive model for teams of key developers involved into varied measures to plan ICO with investors
Awareness on IT service providers needs
Consulting software development and IT services providers for more than 15 years on varied matters: contracts drafting and review (NDA, master agreements, SOWs, SLA, LOI for joint venture agreements), perspective transactions due diligence as well as further contract negotiations support with customers from wide English speaking geography
Bar access and qualified expertise in Ukrainian law
Attorney at Law authorized for practicing law in Ukraine since 2003
Next to litigations track record in Ukrainian courts, successful cases brought to the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and to European Court of Human Rights
Background, awards and scientific research
Being granted with Van Calker scholarship in 2000 had a chance to conduct research “Business Trusts in Civil Law Countries” at the Swiss institute of Comparative law (Lausanne, Switzerland)
MBA degree from Business School at the New Brunswick University (Canada) obtained in 2006, "Art and Science of Negotiation" course within Harvard Negotiations Project completed in 2011
PhD thesis "Hague Trust Convention and transnational litigation" defended in 2019 at the International Relations Institute (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University)