Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Law, 2002
PhD student at Koretsky State University of Law of National Academy of Science of Ukraine
Clients
Vitaliy is a well-known criminal defense lawyer in Ukraine. He has a unique experience of representing politicians, businessmen and public figures in high-profile cases, including with a foreign element.
His area of expertise is defense against criminal prosecution on corruption charges, hostile takeovers and fraudulent actions. He has a strong expertise in the issues of international search, extradition, application of foreign and national sanctions.
Vitaliy is an exceptional strategist capable of elaborating unique, one of a kind legal defense mechanisms.
His colleagues and clients call him a legal trendsetter. His strong communication skills with clients, opponents, representatives of mass media and wider public is yet another facet of his professionalism.
SOCIAL ACTIVITY
Vitaliy actively fights for building a legal state, where the rule of law works, and for the law enforcement, judicial and public authorities to use exclusively legal methods of operation.
As a part of the defense of the clients, he works with the top international human rights organizations (Amnesty International European Institutions Office, European Foundation of Human Rights, Human Rights without Frontiers International, Human Rights Watch, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights OSCE, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, U.S. Agency for International Development, etc.).
Vitaliy has been recognized as a leading criminal litigation lawyer by many international and national ratings. He has been included in the list of the Ukrainian lawyers in Business Crime Defense by the Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders Global Elite, which has been conducted since 2019 on the basis of recommendations of the clients from all across the world over the period of 20 years. His professionalism has been publicly mentioned by the top officials of the law enforcement and public authorities.
Vitaliy is the coordinator of the Attorneys & Lawyers Section of Ukrainian Bar Association, a member of the Rapid Response Section of the Committee for the Protection of Lawyers’ Rights and Legal Activity Guarantees under the Ukrainian National Bar Association, a member of European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), and a member of the Ukrainian National Bar Association.
