Experience

Legal Adviser at Alcor

Feb 2024 – present

Key achievements:

• 3 fully incorporated companies (Delaware, Mexico, Portugal)
• 2 launched products
• Data privacy compliance of internal product (Huntly) was fully updated

Responsibilities:

• International corporate structuring and taxation, including cross-border payments issues (Ukraine, USA, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Cyprus, LATAM, UK)
• Participation in the Asset Agreement (IT product purchase), including conducting the target’s due diligence
• Data privacy compliance (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, as well as specific regulations in LATAM, KSA, UAE)
• Drafting Legal Opinions, Memorandums, the various types of agreements, PoAs, Resolutions, and other documents
• AI compliance (EU AI Act)

Legal Mentor at Team Challenge

May 2024 – present

Responsibilities: 

• Providing legal advice to growing startups on product requirements, potential risks, and ways to avoid them
• Conducting Q&A sessions with startups on data privacy compliance, international corporate structuring, investment attraction, etc.

Freelance Lawyer

Feb 2024 – present

Clients:

• Verba Creative (AI subtitles generator app “Verba”)
• BotsBand (Chatbots for business process automation)
• MIRA Travel (Innovative travel marketplace)
• Cures Tech (Platform for medical clinic automation)
• E-Bazar (Marketplace to buy, sell, or exchange the foods produced by local smallholders and farmers)
• Got.it school (Innovative online English school)
• Char kombucha (Ukrainian manufacturer of kombucha)
• Youmedico (Telemedicine platform that provides healthcare to patients)
• Art Forms Production (Full-cycle TV content production company)
• ASO.Marketing Agency (App Store Optimization marketing agency)
• BASA design agency (UX/UI for AI, SaaS, and Web3)

Key achievements:

• 7 fully incorporated companies (Ukraine, Estonia, California, Delaware, the UK, and Dubai)
• 40+ legal consultations conducted
• 7 products GDPR and CCPA-compliant
• 50+ legally supported agreements for 200k+ USD

Responsibilities:

• Building a corporate structure, including foreign jurisdictions (EU, the UK, Dubai, and the US)
• Bringing products into full compliance with GDPR requirements, as well as local data privacy requirements of several the US states
• Drafting agreements with both internal specialists and partners/customers/providers
• Negotiating with potential investors and partners
• Legal support in attracting investments for product development
• Product risk assessment and avoidance

Corporate Lawyer at First Chair Legal

Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 (1 yr 8 mos)

Key achievements:

• 2 companies became residents of Diia City
• 800k+ EUR completed cross-border transactions
• Significant amendments to the currency legislation of Ukraine were lobbied for
• Intra-group international agreements for 1 million+ USD were legally supported

Responsibilities:

• Drafting Legal Opinions, Memorandums, the various types of agreements, and other
  documents
• Legal issues related to internal group services, including in-group payments.
• Participation in several Stock Agreements
• Implementation of electronic document flow, including specific regulation analysis,
  compliance with requirements, and drafting of necessary documents
• Legal automation and formation of knowledge management bases
• Diia.City-related matters, including drafting gig-contracts, specific taxation issues, etc.
• Corporate structuring, investment support (Access to market)
• Tax and Labour Compliance
• E-commerce legal support
• Cross-border payments (currency legislation compliance)

Legal Counsel at Youpal Group

Dec 2020 – Nov 2022 (2 yr)

Key achievements:

• 10+ fully incorporated companies (USA, EU, KSA, UAE)
• 4 launched products (Youmedico, Youchat, YourAdvisor, TalentApp)
• 300k+ USD investment attracted
• 400k+ USD of debts were collected

Key responsibilities:

• Data privacy compliance (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, CAN-SPAM Act, as well as specific regulations in KSA, UAE)
• Protection of intellectual property rights (Ukraine, USA, UK, Sweden, KSA, and UAE)
• International corporate structuring and taxation, including cross-border payments issues (Ukraine, USA, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, KSA, UAE, Canada, Kenya, Serbia, as well as offshore zones)
• Participation in several Asset and Stock Agreements
• Drafting Non-solicitation, Non-compete agreements, NDA, IP Assignment agreements, Technology transfer agreements, Copyright license agreements, Software development agreements, etc.
• Drafting internal policies (IT policy, Internal Control policy, Finance policy, etc.)
• Other day-to-day legal matters, including labour issues, internal compliance, corporate tracking (agreements, licenses, certificates, resolutions, PoAs, payments), and many others

Education

Ukrainian Catholic University – Master of Laws
Ukraine
2021 – 2022

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv – Bachelor of Laws
Ukraine
2017 – 2021