Vitalii Diakov

Vitalii is a staff attorney of GRECO Law Company with 13 years of active legal practice. He specializes on litigating tax and customs law cases in courts at all levels and on white-collar crime. Vitalii participated in the Ukrainian-Russian programme ‘Successful defense at the European Court of Human Rights’. He is the member of the Committee for young attorneys’ outreach of the Bar Council of the Odessa region. His current barrister’s certificate was issued on March 18th, 2015

RECENT EXPIRIENCE:

• Litigation and class action lawsuits’ support
• Successful tax dispute cases involving fuel stations’ and wholesale networks with over UAH 2 billion (~USD80M) reclaimed

CAREER SUMMARY:

• 2018 – now GRECO Law Company, Staff attorney
• 2013 – 2017 – ‘Ty i Zakon’ LLC, Legal officer
• 2012 – 2013 – ‘Odvist’ LLC and ‘Alfa-Communications’ LLC, Legal officer
• 2010 – 2012 – ‘Jurline Law Firm’ LLC, Junior Legal officer
• 2009 – Internship at the Kiev District Court of Odessa
  
  EDUCATION:
• 2019 – Completed the Ukrainian ‘Lawyer of the Future’ professional de- velopment programme supported by the US Embassy
• 2011 – Odessa Mechnikov National University, LL.B. (cum laude) and LL.M. (cum laude) equivalent degrees