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Criminal Defense

Counsel

Specialization

White-Collar Crime.

Sergii specialises in complex criminal cases at all stages of criminal proceedings. Considerable portion of his projects pertains to the legal protection of business.

He has considerable experience in anti-corruption cases, in particular those concerning an inaccurate declaration, solicitation or receipt of illicit benefits, misappropriation and embezzlement of assets, as well as abuse of power.

He represents clients’ interests in the National Agency on Corruption Prevention and in the corruption cases before courts. He has unrivalled experience and unique expertise in defending public figures in large-scale high-profile cases.

Sergii is an expert in international legal cooperation, transborder investigations, extradition and Interpol matters.

Among his clients are top officials of the Cabinet of Ministers, a former Minister of Energy and Coal Industry, the leadership of the Ukrainian Football Association, the leadership of a Ukrainian industrial giant, and the CEO of the largest private bank in Ukraine.

Board Member of the Committee on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure of the Ukrainian Bar Association.

Recognition

Best Lawyers: among the leading Ukrainian experts in Criminal Defense.

Clients

Ukrainian Association of Football, Comfy, Uklon, Helios Financial Corporation, Sumy Machine-Building Scientific and Production Association, top managers of PrivatBank and MistoBank

Projects

representation of interests of one of the Ukraine’s largest financial companies in criminal proceedings concerning the violation of anti-competitive conditions when acquiring a pool of insolvent banks’ assets, resulting in losses of about UAH 100 billion defense of the head of one of the largest machine-building complexes in Europe in criminal proceedings related to the illegal release of real estate assets from seizure and their subsequent undervalued alienation, resulting in losses of around UAH 40 million defense of the former Minister of Energy of Ukraine in criminal proceedings pertaining to the purported declaration of inaccurate information exceeding UAH 35 million defense of the former director of FFU Production, an exclusive factory for the production of artificial turf for football fields according to the European standards of FIFA and UEFA, in criminal proceedings related to the alleged embezzlement of property in the amount of over UAH 9,4 million defense of one of the largest retailers in the Ukrainian market in criminal proceedings related to the alleged tax evasion totaling USD 1.5 million

Ukrainian, English

Member of the Board of the Committee on Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law of the Ukrainian Bar Association