KM Partners fields a broad team active across contentious and non-contentious tax mandates, with further expertise in white collar crime matters. Both direct and indirect tax are covered by the department, which is active in audits and both pre- and post-trial procedures, in addition to handling litigation. Alexander Minin, who is highly experienced as a litigator, co-leads the department alongside Alexander Shemiatkin, an expert in tax and customs litigation, and Ivan Shynkarenko, who contributes strength in transfer pricing. Elena Bukuyeva and Inna Taptunova are other key names; Bukuyeva has experience with white collar crime investigations, while Taptunova is noted for her work with NGOs.
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Work Department
Transfer Pricing; Customs Law; Litigation.
Position
Partner, Attorney at Law, PhD. in Economics, heading Customs and Trasfer Pricing department. Specializes in tax and customs law, transfer pricing, investments, foreign economic activity, trade and distribution. He has profound experience in various consulting projects in such sectors as agroindustry, real estate and construction, IT and telecommunications, finance and investments, chemistry and food industry, transport, machinery construction, fuel and energy, ecology and biotechnology, pharmaceutics.
Ivan is the author of more than 20 theoretic and practical articles on urgent issues of taxation and customs regulation.
Career
Mr. Shynkarenko joined KM Partners in 2005. Became a Partner in 2015. During the years of work with WTS Consulting Ivan has earned recognition as a specialist capable of solving the most complex problems, faced by clients of the firm in their practical activity. Education in economics and profound experience provide him with in-depth understanding of business activity of the firm’s clients and allows elaboration of the most optimal solutions in each particular case.
Languages
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Memberships
American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (ACC), European Business Association (EBA), German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), Ukrainian Bar Association, Public Organization "ENRIGHTENED".
In 2018 was elected to the Public Council under the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
Education
Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine, Master of Law, 2017
Institute of International Relations of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2012;
Institute of International Relations of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Master of International Economic Relations, 2007;
John Moore's University (Liverpool, Great Britain), attendee at TEMPUS Project "International Finance", 2003.
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