A fully qualified Ukrainian lawyer with specific expertise in corporate law and trade investigations. Recent experience includes working as a private client paralegal in the UK
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Paralegal
Mayo Wynne Baxter
Lewes
11.2022 - 08.2024
Acting as a Gatekeeper for the Private Client Department, in particular, effective communication with clients to find out their needs, arranging appointments and organizing schedules, drafting the initial letters and other correspondence, oral and written communication with government agencies and private companies that, in many cases, helped to facilitate the progress of the matters, for example, to expedite the approval of tax clearance or LPAs registration; withdrawing clients' documents from the strong room
Junior Associate
Enterprise Business Solutions (Media Group Ukraine)
Kyiv
11.2021 - 06.2022
Working on corporate and M&A matters. This includes assuring legal compliance in the media sector, drafting transactional documents, and taking part in M&A projects
Associate (Fixed Term)
Law firm "Lexwell & Partners"
Kyiv
03.2022 - 08.2022
Contributing to legal actions, defense statements, different kinds of legal requests; legal research on various issues, including taxation on the market of iron ore mining, competition; translation of documents for arbitration review
Junior Associate (Fixed Term)
Law firm "Robinson Patman"
Kyiv
09.2020 - 02.2021
Participation in trade investigations, including drafting of applications for the initiation of anti-dumping/countervailing investigations, successfully challenging public procurement decisions, advising on distribution issues in Ukraine, sanctions, and trade barriers
Legal Counsel
Municipal extracurricular school "Kyiv Youth Academy"
Kyiv, Ukraine
09.2019 - 09.2020
Forming legal opinions and responding to Personal Data Requests, development and implementation of Information Access Policies, preparing documents for public procurement, and contracts on the transfer of property
Education
Master of Laws -
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Kyiv
06-2020
Bachelor of Laws -
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Kharkiv
06-2018
Skills
Language skills: English, Ukrainian (native), Russian (native)
Legal writing, deep research, provision of legal advice in different jurisdictions
Arrangement of meetings, administrative work
Word, Excel, Outlook
Work with database: 1C:Enterprise Documentation, Verdictum, Pravosud, Peppermint
Research expertise
Time Management
Timeline
Team Paralegal
Mayo Wynne Baxter
11.2022 - 08.2024
Associate (Fixed Term)
Law firm "Lexwell & Partners"
03.2022 - 08.2022
Junior Associate
Enterprise Business Solutions (Media Group Ukraine)
11.2021 - 06.2022
Junior Associate (Fixed Term)
Law firm "Robinson Patman"
09.2020 - 02.2021
Legal Counsel
Municipal extracurricular school "Kyiv Youth Academy"