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Managing Partner

  • Ukrainian attorney-at-law / barrister practicing since 2004. Positive long-term legal practice involving settlement of disputes in major claims against state tax and antitrust authorities. M&A transactions’ support including those listed as TOP-5 deals by Forbes Ukraine
  • Managing partner of GRECO Law Company. GRECO specializes on environmental, energy and consumer protection litigaton, is plaintiffs-oriented, typically representing community-based public associations and NGOs and is pioneering group and class actions in Ukraine
  • Shaped and directed the first successfully completed environmental class action in the history of Ukraine that was settled ex gratia with yet unprecedented USD 1 million paid in redress
  • Head of the Supervisory Board of the public association ‘Ukrainian Institute for Direct Democracy’. Developed legal means for implementing direct democracy, e-democracy, e-government and e-services
  • Head of the Supervisory Board of the All-Ukrainian NGO ‘Green Fund. Overcoming humanitarian and environmental disasters’, that has been promoting the key principles of international law – such as “polluter pays” and “extended producer responsibility” – and their implementation in Ukraine
  • Joint coordinator of the Ukrainian Parliament’s task force for drafting bills on direct democracy
  • Head of the Environmental and Energy Law Commitee of the Ukrainian Advocates’ Association (UAA), Lawyer of the Year 2020 and 2021 in Environmental Law (UAA)

CAREER SUMMARY:

  • Nov 2018 – Present – Managing partner of GRECO Law Company
  • Sep 2009 – Oct 2018 – Managing partner of Arsenal Law Company
  • Sep 2006 – Aug 2009 – Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Law Institute, Consultant of the Department of European Law and International Integration
  • May 2004 – qualified for a barrister’s license

QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

  • May 2022 – commenced work on post-doctoral thesis “Class actions in environmental law: theory and practice of application under the laws of Ukraine, the European Union, the United States and Australia” for the S.J.D. (Scientiae Juridicae Doctor)
  • 09.2021 – Present – Associate Professor of Environmental Law, Department of Law Studies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • 2014 – post-doctoral student at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Law Institute
  • 2009 – completed doctoral thesis “Judge’s discretion in the theory of law”, Ph.D. in Law
  • Feb 2003 – Aug 2006 – Financial and Legal College of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, lecturer of International Economic Law and Customs Law
  • 2004 – Law Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Jurisprudence (summa cum laude)
  • Authored and co-authored over 40 academic papers and monographs, co-authored parliamentary bills “On Arbitration Courts” and “On Class Actions”

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

  • At present – devises and organizes legal support for Ukrainian displaced persons aimed also at restitution of property lost and/or redress for damages incurred in the course of Russian aggression
  • Since 2010 – Vice President of the Chess Federation of Ukraine
  • Since 2006 – President of the Kyiv Chess Federation
  • Since 2004 – President of the All-Ukrainian public association ‘Ukrainian Lawyers’ League’

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