Lawyers in Ukraine

Dmytro Marchukov

Partner, Co-Head of Cross-Border Litigation

Impacta Law

Dmytro Riabikin

Counsel Dmytro Riabikin specializes in corporate law, private wealth management, M&A, capital markets and securities market. Dmytro has extensive experience of advising clients on various private wealth management issues including protection of interests of beneficial owners of Ukrainian and foreign businesses. Mr Riabikin regularly advises on private and business assets structuring, including setting up trust structures, foundations and family offices.

Sayenko Kharenko

Dmytro Syrota

Position: managing partner. Area of practice: Corporate, M&A, Investment Projects, Antitrust/Competition.

SDM Partners LLC

Eleonora Yemets (Salova)

Counsel, Attorney, Head of White-Collar Crime Practice

ADER HABER

Elmaz Abkhairova

Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office

Ernest Gramatskiy

President | Attorney-at-Law | Gramatskiy & PartnersAdmitted in Ukraine Ernest Gramatskiy is the Founder, President, and permanent Head of Gramatskiy & Partners. He is the firm’s leading strategist, mentor, and innovator, known for his active involvement in legal practice and personal leadership of the most complex and high-profile client matters. Unlike traditional managing partners who focus solely on strategy, Mr. Gramatskiy remains fully engaged in day-to-day legal work—leading transactions, conducting negotiations across jurisdictions, reviewing legal memoranda, and personally representing clients in major disputes and deals. He heads the firm’s Real Estate and Private Advocacy practices and oversees work across Construction, Energy and Natural Resources, Media and Advertising. His recognized expertise also includes Corporate Law and M&A, Business Protection, Taxation, Negotiation and Mediation, IT, and Financial Law. With a comprehensive, encyclopedic approach to legal knowledge and practice, Mr. Gramatskiy is involved in virtually every major matter handled by the firm. He has been teaching Civil and Private International Law as an Assistant Professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv since 1998, and he is Director General of the Civil Law Heritage Foundation (since 2004). Ernest Gramatskiy is widely known beyond the legal profession. Through close collaboration with clients and partners across sectors, he has become a trusted advisor in real estate, construction, retail and trade, finance, media, hospitality, energy, and technology. Within the firm, he has developed and implemented comprehensive systems for quality control, mentorship, advanced legal training, recruitment, and the firm’s management, financial, marketing, and PR strategies.

Gramatskiy&Partners

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.

Dentons

Felix Aronovich

Position: partner. Area of practice: Criminal Law

SDM Partners LLC

Glib Bondar

Glib Bondar is a senior partner at AVELLUM and Head of Finance and Debt Restructuring Practice. Glib focuses on financings, capital markets and debt restructurings. Glib’s additional expertise spans over energy and infrastructure projects. The last 25+ years of his legal practice Glib devoted to international financing and capital markets projects from Ukraine and was involved in many of the high profile and landmark cross-border lending, eurobond offerings and debt restructurings for Ukrainian sovereign/quasi-sovereign, municipal and corporate borrowers. He represented international and local clients, including major investment and commercial banks, financial institutions and corporates.

Avellum

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.

Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office

Igor Davydenko

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.

Dentons

Igor Glushko

Partner, Head of Criminal Law and White Collar Defence practice, Attorney at Law

GOLAW

Igor Krasovskiy

Partner, Head of Banking & Finance

Impacta Law

Igor Lozenko

Igor Lozenko, partner at Sayenko Kharenko, has over ten years of experience in cross-border finance, capital markets, debt restructuring and renewable energy. Igor advises corporates, investment banks and international financial organizations on all types of financings, including secured financings, syndicated lending, project finance transactions, private and public securities offerings across a wide range of industries including the agriculture, energy and natural resources sectors. In addition, Igor has extensive experience of advising on distressed debt sale transactions coming out of Ukraine

Sayenko Kharenko

Igor Pomaz

Counsel Igor Pomaz specialises in antitrust and competition law and regularly advises clients on various antitrust law aspects, including concerted practices, abuse of dominance, monopolization, unfair competition, and merger control. As a part of Sayenko Kharenko’s antitrust team, Igor has worked on a number of cases of obtaining competition clearance for numerous mergers and acquisitions by international companies in across different industries.

Sayenko Kharenko

Igor Reutov

Partner | Attorney-at-Law | Gramatskiy & PartnersAdmitted in Ukraine Igor Reutov has been with Gramatskiy & Partners since 2003 and is a Partner of the firm. He advises Ukrainian and international clients on a broad range of legal matters, including contract law, tax, intellectual property, employment, real estate, and general commercial issues. Igor represents clients in court proceedings and before state and municipal authorities. His expertise includes contract negotiation, lease arrangements, international trade, transactions involving shares, promissory notes, and mortgage-backed securities. He also has significant experience in advising on the resolution of tax disputes. Representative experience includes: Advising IT companies on market entry and day-to-day legal operations in Ukraine. Advising an asset management company on a USD 180 million issuance of investment certificates and related investment activities. Representing a client in a USD 2 million tax dispute before the administrative court, court of appeal, and the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine.

Gramatskiy&Partners

Igor Sukhomudrenko

Igor Sukhomudrenko, of counsel at Sayenko Kharenko, specializes in litigation and regulatory matters including corporate compliance and liaison with state authorities. He is a renowned litigator focusing on debt collection, property, corporate, insurance, damages compensation and consumer protection, along with trademark and labour disputes before the Ukrainian courts and arbitral tribunals. Igor has extensive experience in corporate, labour and real estate law, relying on his vast knowledge in the retail, publishing and pharmaceuticals industries. He handles license applications for various business activities, land allocations, project approvals for real estate construction, and other permissions necessary for the day-to-day operations of Ukrainian companies.

Sayenko Kharenko

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.

Dentons

Ihor Kasianov

Attorney-at-Law | Gramatskiy & PartnersAdmitted in Ukraine Ihor Kasianov is a leading practitioner in the fields of construction, real estate, and land law. He advises on transactions involving the acquisition and disposal of real estate assets, legal due diligence, and financing of development projects. Ihor also represents clients in litigation, particularly in matters related to property and land rights. In addition, he provides legal support in employment, corporate, and M&A matters, as well as on privatization, land use planning, and the allocation of land for ownership or lease. Prior to joining Gramatskiy & Partners, Ihor worked at another prominent Ukrainian law firm.

Gramatskiy&Partners

Ihor Kitela

Of Counsel

Kinstellar

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.

Dentons

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.

Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office

Ilarion Tomarov

Counsel

Vasil Kisil & Partners

Illya Muchnyk

Partner

Kinstellar