Olga Belyakova

TMC – Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Intellectual Property, Public Procurement, Employment, Commercial, Antitrust, Competition and Trade, Labour & Pensions, Consumer Products, Manufacturing

Olga Belyakova is a Partner and Head of the Commercial practice group at CMS Ukraine and also Co-Head of the Technology, Media and Communications (TMC) sector group in Central and Eastern Europe. With over 25 years of focus in these sectors, Olga is best-placed to deliver innovative solutions and pragmatic advice on IT outsourcing, data protection, cybersecurity, cloud technology, IP and employment issues, as well as operational issues regarding data centres, AI, fintech and social media platforms.

Specifically, Olga is constantly involved in the structuring of employment relations between the companies and software developers, including suggesting and creating proper equity incentive schemes at various management levels, non-solicitation and confidentiality commitments of IT staff and tax structuring of the IT businesses with the use of appropriate foreign jurisdictions for purposes of creation of enforceable shareholders relations.

She also advises leading technology companies and investors on AI governance, responsible AI deployment, regulatory compliance and the adoption of AI technologies across various industries.

Importantly, as a highly-acclaimed specialist in data protection, Olga constantly advises clients on legal issues in relation to the processing and protection of personal data, including with the help of cloud-based technology. In particular, Olga’s expertise includes drafting data protection policies and data transfer agreements, different types of consents in various sectors. Olga also assists leading IT outsourcing and product companies on the transfer and protection of IP rights, as well as software development services agreements.

Olga is a recommended lawyer for IT and a lawyer of the year for Telecommunications law by Best Lawyers. Chambers Europe and Legal 500 directories highly regarded Olga in the field of competition law in Ukraine, which describes her as “knowledgeable, service-minded and extremely impressive."

American Chamber of Commerce, admitted to the Bar of Ukraine