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Managing Partner: Olga Prosyanyuk
Number of partners: 5
Number of lawyers: 30
Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian
Firm Overview:
AVER LEX is the leading WCC boutique law firm in Ukraine, focused on high-profile economic crimes and politically motivated prosecutions. The firm commands unrivalled capacities for being a preferred criminal defense team in particular compound and complex WCC litigations with numerous parties, parallel investigations and simultaneous hearings, sometimes in different regions of Ukraine.
AVER LEX defends in the most serious cases such as those involving leading politicians, state officials and business people from government prosecution; represents big corporate clients from a range of economic sectors; acts as a counsel to the prominent local law firms and offices of international law firms in Ukraine. The firm has developed a strong best friends network that now includes leading independent law firms internationally. Moreover AVER LEX consistently cooperates with leading global and local human rights organizations on various ongoing matters. The firm advises on all aspects of criminal law, providing both the traditional services of legal prosecution and defence, and the new requirements of preventive criminal law and corporate compliance.
AVER LEX renders the most convenient legal strategies for the defence or solution of legal problems to institutions, individuals and corporations. The firm’s expertise encompasses white-collar crime; corporate criminal law, corruption and bribery; tax fraud and evasion; international criminal law; extradition; ‘sanction’ proceedings; business crime, fraud; risk assessment; criminal due diligence, etc. AVER LEX provides for complex legal decisions in corporate security aimed at identifying and minimising criminal risks in business; defence of legal rights of detained and convicted persons during a provisional arrest; measures to release from custody; comprehensive legal defence during operational search activities and pre-trial investigations by the law-enforcement bodies; successful advocating in court hearings within a criminal proceeding; legal aid to complainants; recovery of damages judgments. The firm is involved in legislative drafting activity in such areas as criminal procedural legislation, judicial and advocacy reforms in the working groups with the advisory body under the President of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA), within the EU project ‘Support to Justice Sector Reforms in Ukraine’, and the Initiative Group on Protection of the Lawyer’s Rights. The firm’s advocates lead the Working group on protection of professional advocates’ rights and actively provide urgent legal aid in case of breach of professional rights by state authorities and third parties.PRACTICE AREAS
White-Сollar Crime
Litigation
Main Areas of Practice:
White-Collar Crime
3 partners, 20 fee earners
■ Representation of clients in politically motivated prosecutions (Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine; Andriy Klyuyev, the Head of President’s Administration in 2014; Serhii Bochkovsky, Head of the State of Emergency in Ukraine; Oleksandr Onishchenko, the MPs of Ukraine; Myroslav Prodan, the Acting Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, Yaroslav Dubnevych, the Ex-Deputy of Parliament of Ukraine; Igor Pogribnichenko, the Judge of the Circuit Administrative Court of Kyiv City)
■ Representation of high profile corporate clients (Odessa Portside Plant, Diamant Bank, Alfa-Bank Ukraine, ZTE Corporation, Magnezit Group, Bunge Ukraine, BRSM-Nafta, Total Ukraine, etc)
■ The firm acted as the exclusive counsel of the Ukrainian arms of the ‘Big 4’ accountants on a wide range of WCC issues The scope of expertise includes financial fraud, tax evasion, corruption, money laundering, embezzlement, crime of officials and other cases.
Contact: Vitaliy Serdyuk, Senior Partner
Email: [email protected]
Litigation:
1 partner, 10 fee earners
■ Representation of significant local and international industrial leaders (Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange, Bunge Ukraine, Fibratex, etc.)
■ Representation of corporations, financial institutions and businessmen in disputes with corporate partners and state authorities, as well as acting for private clients on protection of their business reputation and in defamation cases
■ Protection from illegal prosecution of business by the representatives of law enforcement authorities The scope of expertise includes property rights protection, corporate control recovery, corporate security, tax litigation.
Contact: Olga Prosyanyuk, Managing Partner
Email: [email protected]
Number of partners: 5
Number of lawyers: 30
Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian
Firm Overview:
AVER LEX is the leading WCC boutique law firm in Ukraine, focused on high-profile economic crimes and politically motivated prosecutions. The firm commands unrivalled capacities for being a preferred criminal defense team in particular compound and complex WCC litigations with numerous parties, parallel investigations and simultaneous hearings, sometimes in different regions of Ukraine.
AVER LEX defends in the most serious cases such as those involving leading politicians, state officials and business people from government prosecution; represents big corporate clients from a range of economic sectors; acts as a counsel to the prominent local law firms and offices of international law firms in Ukraine. The firm has developed a strong best friends network that now includes leading independent law firms internationally. Moreover AVER LEX consistently cooperates with leading global and local human rights organizations on various ongoing matters. The firm advises on all aspects of criminal law, providing both the traditional services of legal prosecution and defence, and the new requirements of preventive criminal law and corporate compliance.
AVER LEX renders the most convenient legal strategies for the defence or solution of legal problems to institutions, individuals and corporations. The firm’s expertise encompasses white-collar crime; corporate criminal law, corruption and bribery; tax fraud and evasion; international criminal law; extradition; ‘sanction’ proceedings; business crime, fraud; risk assessment; criminal due diligence, etc. AVER LEX provides for complex legal decisions in corporate security aimed at identifying and minimising criminal risks in business; defence of legal rights of detained and convicted persons during a provisional arrest; measures to release from custody; comprehensive legal defence during operational search activities and pre-trial investigations by the law-enforcement bodies; successful advocating in court hearings within a criminal proceeding; legal aid to complainants; recovery of damages judgments. The firm is involved in legislative drafting activity in such areas as criminal procedural legislation, judicial and advocacy reforms in the working groups with the advisory body under the President of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA), within the EU project ‘Support to Justice Sector Reforms in Ukraine’, and the Initiative Group on Protection of the Lawyer’s Rights. The firm’s advocates lead the Working group on protection of professional advocates’ rights and actively provide urgent legal aid in case of breach of professional rights by state authorities and third parties.PRACTICE AREAS
White-Сollar Crime
Litigation
Main Areas of Practice:
White-Collar Crime
3 partners, 20 fee earners
■ Representation of clients in politically motivated prosecutions (Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine; Andriy Klyuyev, the Head of President’s Administration in 2014; Serhii Bochkovsky, Head of the State of Emergency in Ukraine; Oleksandr Onishchenko, the MPs of Ukraine; Myroslav Prodan, the Acting Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, Yaroslav Dubnevych, the Ex-Deputy of Parliament of Ukraine; Igor Pogribnichenko, the Judge of the Circuit Administrative Court of Kyiv City)
■ Representation of high profile corporate clients (Odessa Portside Plant, Diamant Bank, Alfa-Bank Ukraine, ZTE Corporation, Magnezit Group, Bunge Ukraine, BRSM-Nafta, Total Ukraine, etc)
■ The firm acted as the exclusive counsel of the Ukrainian arms of the ‘Big 4’ accountants on a wide range of WCC issues The scope of expertise includes financial fraud, tax evasion, corruption, money laundering, embezzlement, crime of officials and other cases.
Contact: Vitaliy Serdyuk, Senior Partner
Email: [email protected]
Litigation:
1 partner, 10 fee earners
■ Representation of significant local and international industrial leaders (Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange, Bunge Ukraine, Fibratex, etc.)
■ Representation of corporations, financial institutions and businessmen in disputes with corporate partners and state authorities, as well as acting for private clients on protection of their business reputation and in defamation cases
■ Protection from illegal prosecution of business by the representatives of law enforcement authorities The scope of expertise includes property rights protection, corporate control recovery, corporate security, tax litigation.
Contact: Olga Prosyanyuk, Managing Partner
Email: [email protected]
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