Svitlana focuses on corporate and commercial law, foreign investments as well as dispute resolution. Svitlana has assisted clients in a number of complex multi-jurisdictional dispute resolution projects and has advised several leading Ukrainian and international companies on dispute resolution, regulatory issues, and business law related matters. Svitlana also has significant expertise and experience in insurance law.
- its 23.8 billion USD transaction with Alfa Group of Russia involving the merger of assets between the Russian mobile telecom operator VimpelCom (the Beeline brand) and the leading Ukrainian telecom operator Kyivstar in VimpelCom Ltd., including the structuring and documentation of the Ukrainian part of the transaction;
- corporate governance issues and dispute resolution between Telenor and Alfa Group with regard to Kyivstar where Telenor was a major shareholder and the Alfa Group affiliate was a minority shareholder. The dispute spanned several years and a number of jurisdictions, including numerous litigation cases brought by Alfa Group and its affiliates in Ukraine and Telenor's UNCITRAL arbitration against the Alfa Group affiliate;