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Mrs Natalia Selyakova

+380 44 494 4774 natalia.selyakova@dentons.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Banking and Finance; Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies; Intellectual Property and Technology; Eurobonds issues, FinTech

Position

Natalia Selyakova is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office and Head of Dentons’ Banking and Finance, Restructuring and Insolvency practices in Ukraine. Natalia has in-depth knowledge of Ukrainian and international law and practice, complex international transactions and instruments. She has acted as lead counsel in numerous transactions involving syndicated finance, project finance, trade finance, Eurobonds issues, FinTech, M&A and settlements, debt restructuring and insolvency matters.

Career

Natalia is a very well known lawyer within the Ukrainian banking community. Natalia headed the legal department at HVB Bank for 5 years. Prior to joining HVB Bank Ukraine Natalia worked as head of the legal department at Universal Bank for Reconstruction and Partnership, and as head of the legal department, and later as head of the representative office, of John Deere/AMACO.

Languages

English, Russian, Ukrainian

Memberships

Member of the Supervisory Board, Settlement Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2017 – 2020

Member of the Supervisory Board (Independent Director), National Depository of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 2016 – 2020

Guest lecturer, Fintech regulatory matters at the Practical Law School (Master Program), Yaroslav Mudriy National Law University, 2022 – ongoing

Education

UpF, PhD research on Fintech regulatory matters (in progress)

Queen Mary University of London (Postgraduare certificate, 2018)

Swedish Institute Management Program, 2011

University of London (2006, LL.M)

National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (2000, Law Degree)

Kyiv Economic University (1995, degree in International Economics & Law)