12 - 13 September 2016 Intercontinental Hotel, Kiev, Ukraine
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You just won’t believe
whom I am going to meet!
Intax
Executive Manager
Tomas Chrobak is an Executive Manager of PROTTECO TRUST COMPANY, a company forming part of the international tax consulting group AKONT active in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since 1992. Tomas has joined the group in 1997 and helped AKONT become the most important provider of international tax planning advisory and corporate services on the Czech and Slovak market.
In the years 2000 – 2008, Tomas was responsible for the management of projects named Companies Online and OFFICE HOUSE, specialised in the provision of Czech and Slovak ready-made companies and virtual office services in 18 business centers located in both countries.
During his practice in the field of international Tax Planning and corporate services, he has published numerous articles to various international and Czech magazines and newspapers, and became a co-author of the books on international tax planning.
Tomas graduated from the Prague University of Economics. He speaks fluently Czech, English, Russian, German, and French.
PROTTECO TRUST COMPANY LTD
Czech Republic
www.protteco.com
Chairman of the Board, ABLV Corporate Services
In charge of: Corporate Support Department, Asset Structuring Department, Accounting Services Department.
Obtained diploma in Economics at London School of Economics (LSE). Has been working in banking sector for more than 10 years. Joined ABLV team in 2010 to provide services like asset structuring, change of tax residence and other legal and tax advice.
ABLV Bank
Latvia
www.ablv.com
Olga Finkel is a leading lawyer and is well regarded as an expert in taxation, wealth management, investment funds, corporate law and mergers & acquisitions. She provides specialist advice on strategic, commercial and regulatory matters, particularly to businesses and institutions involved in ICT, gambling & gaming, telecoms and software development. She also gives advice to private clients on taxation, wealth management, as well as on residency and citizenship.
Olga is highly experienced in cross-jurisdictional matters and provides advice on issues arising out of cross-border transactions, especially in the area of taxation, corporate transactions (M&A) and competition (antitrust) law, including due diligence work.
Olga has been invited to speak at several topical international conferences, as well as to write chapters and articles in reputable publications. She is a member in a number of associations, including the International Bar Association and Malta Chamber of Advocates, and is also an accredited agent for the Individual Investor Programme (Citizenship programme). She practices law in English, Russian, Ukrainian and Maltese.
Olga holds a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Malta and an MSc in Information Technology and Economics from the Academy of Economics, Kharkov, Ukraine. She is ranked as a leading lawyer by the foremost independent legal directories in a number of practice areas.
WH Partners
Malta
www.whpartners.eu
Voldan Investments Limited
Program Director – from January 2015
I am responsible for promotion and effective operation of the Hungarian residency bond program on the territory of 14 countries. I control and supervise all the financial, administrative and legal processes in frame of the governmental investment program. I also consult investors on tax and legal issues in order to optimize their future financial statuses.
My task is to create and maintain operative relationship with all the governmental institutes involved in operation of the program (Governmental Debt Management Agency; Office of Immigration and Citizenship).
Ernst and Young Tax Advisory Ltd
Senior Tax Advisor, International Tax Advisory Department, 2007 – 2015
Responsible for the department’s legal and economic client consulting in the following areas: Corporation Tax, Personal Income Tax, Transfer Pricing, Cross Border Taxation and VAT.
Dr. Riedler Richárd Law Firm, 2005 – 2008 – legal Trainee
ACEEEO (Association of Central & Eastern European Election Officials) 2002 – 2003 Academic assistant
Legal Competencies: Expert Level Knowledge & Understanding of:
•Civil, tax and administrative law
•Contract, Government Regulations
•Tax and Corporate Law
Voldan Investments Limited
Hungary
www.voldangroup.com
Group Chief Economist
Sergei is the group Chief Economist responsible for advising the bank’s management and clients on key trends in global economy and financial markets.
Prior to joining Norvik in September 2014, Sergei spent nearly 20 years at Credit Suisse, as the bank’s lead economist for Russia, becoming Chief Economist for Russia and the CIS in 2010. He also covered a number of emerging market countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Sergei began his career at the USSR Foreign Ministry in 1989 after graduating from MGIMO University with an honours diploma in international economic relations.
He worked as an economist at the USSR Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq in 1989-1991 and later as a country officer for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait at the USSR Foreign Ministry in Moscow. In 1992-1994, he was a graduate student in economics in Russia and the US and holds a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University. He is an Edmund S. Muskie and Joseph C. Fox fellow and is fluent in Russian, English and Arabic.
Norvik Banka, AS
www.norvik.eu
Lana is a partner at Attorney Association Juscutum since 2015. Prior to that she was the head of consultancy firm Solano.
She is a successful and experienced expert in the area of registration and maintenance of companies in different jurisdictions, tax advisory using non-resident companies, asset protection and corporate restructuring of Ukrainian entities.
Her expertise includes support of non-resident component of the Ukrainian and international holding structures while maintaining intra-group financial flows, as well as analysis of the impact of international business practices on the Ukrainian business and coordination of foreign norms of corporate law with the Ukrainian.
Lana accompanies deals in structuring and reconstruction of companies aiming at asset protection and preventing hostile acquisitions, in addition to provision of corporate governance.
She provides support to clients in dealing with international banks, in optimising the financial flows and “back-to-back” financing. She also consults start-ups and advises on foreign investment opportunities and helps Ukrainian firms to feel comfortable and secure on the foreign land.
Juscutum | TGR Payments Ltd
Ukraine
www.juscutum.com
www.tgrpayments.com
Tom Holter is a vice president with Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP and is a registered representative of Baker Tilly Capital, where he manages the firm’s EB-5 service line. He is an experienced attorney and licensed investment banker whose previous work in large law firms focused on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic transactions. He has worked in China, Japan, and Vietnam as well as the United States.
Specific experience
•Conducted due diligence on proposed EB-5 transactions
•Provided strategic planning and oversight for EB-5 securities offerings
•Conducted EB-5 securities offerings in China
•Managed investor communication and Source of Funds analysis and reporting for investors closed through offerings conducted by Baker Tilly
•Oversaw Investor Capital Account administration
•Designed and compliance EB-5 project development/ reporting procedures
•Developed and implemented procedures for EB-5 New Commercial Entity administration
•Serves on the Banking and Compliance Committees of Invest In the USA , the main EB-5 industry organization
•Possesses a deep, global understanding of the EB-5 program, its regulatory environment, and all of its component pieces and effectively communicates that knowledge to clients, investors, and other service providers
•Experienced, responsive service provider sensitive to client’s business objectives and committed to realizing them
•American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Wisconsin Chapter member
Education
•University of Wisconsin Law School (Madison, Wisconsin)
Juris Doctor, Magna cum Laude
•University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
Bachelor of Science: Molecular Biology and Philosophy
Baker Tilly Capital
USA
www.bakertillycapital.com
CEO of consulting agency “TSEYTELMAN B.C.”, certified tax adviser and member of the Union of the tax advisers of Ukraine, certified securities expert of NSSMC of Ukraine, Licentiate in IFRS from the Institute of financial managers in Great Britain (ICFM), member of UFPAA, account agent of some international banks, author and reviewer of a wide number of publications on tax and financial subject, postgraduate of Faculty of Economics in DSU named after O.Gonchara.
Experience on the financial market : 10 years.
Business dimension: administration of the tax exposure, Foreign Economic Activities regulation, optimization of the financial flows, opening and support of the foreign companies and bank accounts, support of IT- projects.
Key feature in bureau’s work with the client is nonstandard approach to the solution of the client’s problem and full exposure to each concrete situation which guarantee maximum effective result.
Among our clients we have: company “Favorite Sport”, financial company “E-PAY”, law firm “LEO-PARTNESS”, company “ Bon-Boisson Beverage”, auditing firm “ Finem”, transport company “VTO UKREKSP”.
TSEYTELMAN B.C.
Ukraine
www.t-bc.net.ua
Igor Bordioug received his Master of Science in Telecommunication Engineering from Kiev Institute of Control and Communications in 1981, worked as a Telecommunication Engineer for 9 years and obtained PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from St. Petersburg Academy of Telecommunications in 1993.
From 1993 Mr. Bordioug worked as a chief financial officer for an import/export company in Russia, where he developed his practical knowledge of corporate financial and tax planning using different onshore and offshore legal entities.
In 1998 Mr. Bordioug moved to Canada to pursue business opportunities in North America.
Mr. Bordioug established A & P Intertrust Corporation in 2002. Being a sole director of the corporation he built his business from scratch. Currently the company offers services in Canada, US, BVI, Belize, Nevis, Panama, Latvia, Cyprus, Singapore and UK serving over 10,000 clients located in more than 50 countries.
A & P Intertrust Corporation
Canada
www.apintertrust.com
Serhii is a senior manager at PwC Switzerland (International Private Clients), engaged primarily in providing international tax structuring services for High Net Worth Individuals originated from CIS countries. He specializes in taxation, advising both domestic and international corporate clients and entrepreneurs in national or international tax matters, including both legal and economic aspects.
Before joining PwC, Serhii worked for Baker & McKenzie, Deloitte, KPMG and BDO.
Serhii holds a Master Degree in Law (Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine), LLM in Tax (Queen Mary, University of London, UK), ADIT (The Chartered Institute of Taxation, UK) and MBA (Steinbeis University Berlin, Germany), and is a certified attorney-at-law in Ukraine.
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
Switzerland
www.pwc.ch
Partner, auditor of International Legal Center EUCON
Larysa Vrublevska is a recognized professional in audit, transfer pricing, accounting, tax and management accounting issues, tax planning, development and application of tax strategies.
Larysa Vrublevska is a head of Transfer Pricing School and holds course of lectures on the most sensible issues of transfer pricing. She advises well-known national and multinational companies on transfer pricing documentation with justification of contractual prices and introduction of transfer pricing control, as well as on tax planning and tax strategies.
She is an author of publications in professional media, and regularly takes part in conferences, forums, round tables.
Membership and activities:
•Managing partner of the International Audit Union;
•Partner of TPA Global (Amsterdam);
•Head of the Tax and Customs Policy Committee of the Polish Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw);
•Head of the Transfer Pricing School;
•Head of the Transfer Pricing Committee of the Tax Advisers Association;
•Member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine;
•Member of the Public Council at the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine;
•Member of the International Fiscal Association Ukraine.
International Legal Center EUCON
Ukraine
E-mail: vrublevska@eucon.ua
www.eucon.ua
Partner, Head of Tax Practice
OMP Tax & Legal
Crowe Horwath AC Ukraine
Dmitriy’s professional activity started in 1995 with background in law and economics with successful realization in the fields of tax, contract law, finances, securities, investment activity. Dmitry is experienced in structuring and practical implementation of tax optimization in different industries, including big industrial groups of Ukraine and international investors.
Dmitry Mikhailenko is listed in TOP 100 Lawyers of Ukraine.
The author of several draft laws on tax issues, 5 books, more than 400 publications, a speaker of more than 500 conferences, workshops, webinars, round tables and other events on tax issues.
Co-author of draft law on taxation system.
Pro-bono activity:
•President of the Association of Tax Consultants,
•Member of Chamber of Tax Advisors Supervisory Board,
•Tax Committee Head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine,
•Member of Public Committee of State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
Dmitry is a Deputy Head of Chief Editor of Buhgalter (the Accountant) magazine.
OMP Tax & Legal
www.omp-tax.com.ua
Crowe Horwath AC Ukraine
www.crowehorwath.ua
Ukraine
Partner of Tax at Juscutum Attorneys Association
Education:
•LL.M., the National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (magna cum laude)
•Master of finance, Ukrainian Institute of Stock Market Development
•Certified Leasing Specialist (USAID & Certified Listing Specialists Fund (USA))
Practice areas:
•Tax: Consulting and Litigation
•Transfer Pricing
Professional experience:
Natalia has extensive experience in tax law of Ukraine and international taxation related to corporate taxation, development of financial and tax structure of the group of companies. She also advises on regulations regarding individual taxes.
Natalia focuses on international taxation, legal opinions on tax issues, civil and commercial matters, transfer pricing, business structuring and special regims.
Recently she has successfully represented clients from retail, e-commerce, industrial, agricultural, IT and trade areas, namely Ipsos Ukraine, Flirchi, Renault Trucks Ukraine, Volvo Ukraine, “Pentegy”
She also advices on individuals’ equity structuring, expatriate’s taxation, taxation on inheritance and donations.
Juscutum
Ukraine
www.juscutum.com
Mykhaylo Honcharuk is a lawyer, managing partner of Honcharuk & Partners Law Firm, CEO of platform for investment in lawsuits OpenLex, Member of Rule of Ukrainian Advocates’ Association.
He has 15 years of experience in the field of judicial protection.
Specialization: tax and corporate law, legal representation.
Mykhaylo Goncharuk is a founder and CEO of the OpenLex – the first Ukrainian platform for lawsuit funding, speaker of themed events projects at B2B Forum, Business Club, the Free School of Business, Advertising School etc.
He is the author of numerous professional publications and comments in magazines «Forbes», «Business», «Money», «Focus» and others.
Mykhaylo Honcharuk has three higher educations in law (Academy of Labour, Social Relations and Tourism, 2003), economic (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2006), public administration (National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, 2013).
Honcharuk & Partners Law Firm
Contact details:
+38 (067) 243 33 64
hm@honcharukpartners.com
Ukraine
www.honcharukpartners.com
Managing Partner of the Amond & Smith Ltd representative office in Ukraine
Specialization: financial law, tax law, asset protection.
Relevant work experience: since 2006.
Denis Kuznetsov has finished the faculty of law of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
He is a member at the Ukrainian branch of International Fiscal Association (IFA).
He specializes in the Ukrainian corporate law, execution of investment activity by foreign companies in Ukraine. He possesses extensive experience in the sphere of support of advisory projects on development and realization of tax efficient structures with the participation of non-resident companies.
Denis Kuznetsov provides client consultation services regarding incorporation and support of legal entities in Ukraine and abroad, international tax planning, asset protection, business structuring. He provides assistance in opening bank accounts for clients in various banks worldwide. He cooperates with leading legal, consulting and audit companies and conducts analysis of the legislation in various jurisdictions.
He has been well published in various Ukrainian mass media.
Denis speaks fluent English.
He is keen on sports, especially tennis, skiing, snowboarding and football.
Amond & Smith Ltd.
Ukraine
www.amondsmith.ua
Attorney-at-law, managing partner of Dmіtrieva & Partners Law Firm, Head of the Higher Audit Bar Committee of Ukraine, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the All-Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organization “Ukrainian Advocates’ Association”, arbiter of the Riga International Commercial Arbitration Court, member of the Public Council under the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
Legal practice experience: 29 years.
Specialization: investment and currency regulation; foreign economic activity; corporate law/M&A; tax law; international law; due diligence; international arbitration
Education: Taras Schevchenko State University of Kyiv , speciality “Jurisprudence” (1987)
Kyiv National Economic University, speciality “Financial Management” (2004)
Professional experience:
Olga Dmitrieva began her professional activity in the Kyiv Regional Bar Association in 1987.
In 1992 Olga Dmіtrieva underwent a training in the law firm in Canada and from 1993 she was heading the legal department of the Ukrainian-German joint venture.
In 1994 Olga Dmіtrieva established her own legal business, she is a founder and managing partner of Dmіtrieva & Partners Law Firm. The company has been recognized as one of the best ones in Ukraine on the basis of the results of the research conducted annually by newspaper “Legal Practice”.
The object of the company’s activities is rendering of a full range of services in the sphere of antimonopoly and competitive law, foreign economic activity, due diligence, land legal relations and real estate, investment and currency regulation, intellectual property, IT-law, corporate law and M&A, international law and arbitration, tax law, judicial practice, criminal law, accounting outsourcing.
Law Company “Dmitrieva & Partners”
Ukraine
Dmitrieva@dmp.com.ua
www.dmp.com.ua
Oleksandr Volkov is an Associate with the International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation of EPAP Ukraine. He specializes in representing foreign and Ukrainian compnaies in corporate investigations, national/foreign courts, international/national arbitrations, focusing on alternative dispute resolution, investments, sustainability, extractives and sports law.
Oleksandr acted as a head of the Ukrainian arbitration institution, representing the center before state authorities. He has experience of running mediations in the courts of Los-Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Santa-Monica, USA. Oleksandr is admitted in Ukraine and the State of New-York, USA.
EPAP Ukraine
Ukraine
www.epap.ua
Taras Kyslyy is a Counsel, Head of Anti-Corruption Compliance Practice at EPAP Ukraine. He has a vast, 11 years’ experience on representing clients on investigations to discover corrupted wrongdoings and further assistance to cure damages and recover business back to normal.
Among others, Mr. Kyslyy advised international construction company regarding charges against its top-manager suspected in bribing local state officials; assisted one of the biggest CIS commercial banks with investigation of the fraud and corruption issues; assisted in multi-jurisdictional FCPA investigation.
EPAP Ukraine
Ukraine
www.epap.ua
Partner
By Andriy Popov, partner of Kreston GCG, representing in Ukraine the global network of audit and accounting firms of Kreston International.
Prior to joining Kreston GCG in 2008, Andriy worked in banking and insurance sectors. Now, he is responsible for corporate sales and development of new market segments, and is particular agile with corporate communications and strategy formation.
Among Mr. Popov’s major achievements at Kreston GCG: attraction of investments for Ukrainian companies through a number of international financial institutions; remodeling of business processes; management of large-scale asset valuation projects in agriculture, banking sector, heavy and light industries, followed by M & A transactions.
Since 2015, Andriy has been managing entirely the Kreston GCG’s valuation and transfer pricing activity.
Kreston GCG
Ukraine
www.kreston-gcg.com
Managing Partner
Professional experience: 15 years
Professional sphere: International Tax Law, Tax Law of Ukraine, Tax Planning, Tax Litigation, Consulting in the field of tax planning, Business Support in foreign jurisdictions, Corporate law, Financial services, Securities, Investment activity.
Educational background: Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specialization – International law.
Spheres of legal practice:
•international tax planning;
•complex construction of corporate and tax schemes – tax risks assessment and development of proposals for their mitigation;
•consulting on building asset protection structures using trusts and foundations;
•consulting in the field of international tax planning, on various issues of corporate and tax legislation of Ukraine;
•structuring of M&A transactions;
•development and analysis of different types of documents in English legislation, including shareholders agreements, stock options, etc;
•incorporation and administration of foreign legal entities;
•selection of foreign banks for projects of various complexity;
•consultations on obtaining residence permits and citizenship abroad.
Key competencies: 15 years of practical experience in structuring and asset protection activities, the successful implementation of projects of various complexity in international trade, intellectual property, financial and banking law, real estate, corporate law and M&A.
15 years of practice in organization and reporting at conferences and seminars on the latest developments in international tax planning and its main characteristics.
Author of numerous publications in the area of tax and corporate law in major business magazines in Ukraine and worldwide.
ICF Legal Service
Ukraine
www.icf-ua.com
Partner, Head of Tax Practice
Education:
Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National University:
Master’s Degree in International Law, 2005;
Master’s in International business, 2004.
Certified accountant professional (CAP)
Admitted to bar in Ukraine (2008).
Professional career:
2012 – present Asters (Shevchenko Didkovskiy & Partners till 2008), Partner
2012-2013 Swedbank Ukraine, Chief Legal Officer
2010-2012 ENERGY STANDARD GROUP, Chief Tax Officer
2005-2009 KPMG, senior tax consultant.
Professional experience:
Mr. Khomyakov primarily focuses on taxation. His additional areas of practice are M&A, asset management, stock exchange and securities, foreign investments. Alexey has an outstanding record of implementing best world tax practices and in-depth expertise in development of tax efficient structuring of cross-border financing within the framework of IPO, Eurobond issuance within large-sized businesses. Apart from taxation, Mr. Khomyakov has significant experience in tax litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, asset management, securities trading regulations, international investments management and white collar crimes legal support with law enforcement agencies.
Asters
Ukraine
Alexey.Khomyakov@asterslaw.com
www.asterslaw.com
Stanislav Lobko is a Counsel of OMP Tax & Legal.
He has got a Master of Laws degree at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. Experienced in tax matters consulting, business organizing in Ukraine and abroad, legal audits conducting, multidisciplinary contracts structuring and drafting, litigation management.
Stanislav was engaged in international tax planning of agribusiness, metal business, informational technologies, development of international investment models, due diligence of stevedoring companies, agro and IT companies, issues of transfer pricing for international holdings.
Stanislav Lobko is an author of publications covering taxation issues, corporate law issues, investments with application of non-standard tools, bankruptcy. Conducted several lectures on transfer pricing and business protection.
OMP Tax & Legal
Ukraine
www.omp-tax.com.ua