Partner, Head of Commercial Practice
Education: Law Department, Belarusian State University (with honors); Masters Program of the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), specialization: International Law, European Law.
Professional experience:
- support of entry of a large retail operator to the Belarusian market, planning and determination of organizational and fiscal structure of business and real estate deals.
- supervision of inclusion in the customs register of intellectual property objects of clients’ trademarks in order to terminate “grey” import to Belarus;
- elaboration of a system of distributorship in Belarus of a large international manufacturer of automobile oil;
- obtaining agreements of an antimonopoly body on the issues of gaining indirect control over one of the largest Russian oil company;
- carrying out due diligence of companies claiming to obtain a status of distributor of a large international manufacturer of automobiles in Belarus;
- preparation and expert examination of more than two dozen license agreements on transfer of rights to intellectual property objects (know-how, software, television channels, selection achievements etc.);
- elaboration of a system of legal formalization of operations related to market promotion and advertising of a large Belarusian beer manufacturer after it’s been purchased by an internationally known beer manufacturer. Adaptation of local documents of the Company to international standards.
Recognition: Mentioned in reference guides of leading lawyers of the world Chambers Global; Chambers Europe; PLC Which Lawyer, International Lawyers, Legal 500.
Additional experience: - Author of commentaries and proposals for improvement of advertising legislation;
- Teaching experience and experience in holding workshops for law students;
- Expert in a range of international projects, carrying seminars on entrepreneurial activity;
- Co-author, jury member of the Belarusian Republican Legal Olympiad (2005 - 2010);
- Legal expertise of normative documents and commentaries to the new laws;
- Over the period of 4 years held the post of an executive director of the BelPACL – professional organization of lawyers working in the sphere of business services;
- Founder and Board member of the non-profit partnership "CIS Competition Support Association".