Andriy Pozhidayev

Andriy co-heads the dispute resolution and debt restructuring practices of the Firm. With more than 18 years of experience in dispute resolution, he is specialised in banking, contractual, corporate, defamation, and labour disputes, as well as disputes involving the protection of creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and restructuring.

He has wealth of experience in running and participating in person in disputes brought before Ukrainian courts of all jurisdictions and levels, including the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, as part of a number of cases that have shaped court practice, bankruptcy proceedings involving large debtors, and the most complicated financial restructuring processes unique to Ukraine. Andrii represented clients and advised them on complicated litigation processes covering a number of foreign jurisdictions.

Andriy and his team were fully engaged in the drafting of a number of laws that were critical to the financial market, including the Ukrainian Law on Banks and Banking, the Ukrainian Law on Financial Restructuring, the Ukrainian Law amending certain legislative instruments of Ukraine to resume lending, the Ukrainian Law amending certain legislative instruments of Ukraine to address certain issues of operation of the banking system, etc.

Andriy Pozhidayev has been advising clients from various industries, including the banking sector, car industry, telecommunications, FMCG, transport and logistics.

Ukrainian Bar Association

Kyiv Region Bar Association

Independent Association of Ukrainian Banks