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Practice Areas
Heads GOLAW’s German Desk. Recognised by The Legal 500 and Lexology Index for banking and finance, foreign investment, and energy. He advises investors, banks and corporates on finance matters, and is principal contact for German-speaking clients investing in Ukraine, including its reconstruction and EU-accession. He leads M&A, restructurings, securities and real estate deals, and energy project finance, for clients across energy, financial, consumer, industrial and healthcare sectors.
Practising business law over two decades, he co-founded GOLAW and, in 2016, its Berlin office (Advokaten Gvozdiy und Oberkovych GOLAW PartGmbB), joining the Berlin Bar. Individually ranked in banking and finance by PRAVO.UA’s 2026 list of Ukraine’s top firms. A regular speaker at Ukraine Recovery Conferences since Lugano and the EUETH presentation in Brussels.
Professional Memberships
Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin, IBA, UNBA, ACC, EBA, AHK Ukraine, UNIC, TUID, AEEC, SCG Legal, Ost-Ausschuss, SUP
Personal
LL.M., Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv (1996); LL.M. Comparative Legal Studies, John Marshall Law School, Chicago (1999).
Languages: Ukrainian, English.
Ranked Individuals at GOLAW (5)
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