Antonina Yaholnyk

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Competition/Antitrust, Competition Litigation, Regulatory

Antonina Yaholnyk, Founding and Managing Partner of CLACIS, has significant experience in handling numerous cases on antitrust issues like multi-jurisdictional merger control matters, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance & unfair competition law cases in Ukraine and region, advising numerous multinational and national companies in telecommunications, retail, banking and finance, consumer products and beverages, pharmaceutical, shipping, etc.

Career

Mrs. Yaholnyk has overall 26 years of legal practice of which 18 years of daily experience handling antitrust and compliance matters. Prior to founding CLACIS she headed Baker & McKenzie’s Competition & Compliance Practice Groups and was the head of Competition Practice in one of the leading regional firms.

Professional Memberships

Licensed Advocate in Ukraine since 2004

Member of Ukrainian National Bar Association

Chaired European Business Association’s Competition Committee

Publications

Books (manuals recommended by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine):

•“International Trade Law”

•“Multilateral Trading System – Legal and Economic Aspects”

•“Accession of Transition Economies to the WTO: Impact on Development and Regulation of Foreign Direct Investments”

Numerous publications, including on Lexology.

Personal

Education:

•Master of Law (LLM) University of Cambridge

•Master of Law and Economics of World Trade Institute (Switzerland)

•Ivan Franko Lviv National University (Ukraine)