Oksana Legka

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Oksana Legka

Partner

practice areas

International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation

Oksana Legka focuses on dispute resolution issues, including multi-jurisdictional litigation, investor-state and international commercial arbitration.

Oksana advises the State of Ukraine, governmental agencies, and major corporate clients in complex, multi-billion, transnational landmark disputes, as well as investor-state and commercial arbitrations that involves the strategic coordination of simultaneous litigations in various foreign jurisdictions and national courts.

Recognition:

notable practitioner in international arbitration and cross-border litigation, Ukrainian Law Firms 2024. A Handbook for Foreign Clients

Education:

National Academy of Management, 2008
AFW Wirtschaftsakademie Bad Harzburg, MBA program, 2017

Admission:

Admitted in Ukraine, 2019

Languages:

English, Ukrainian

Membership and activities:

Ukrainian Bar Association, 2010

Representative experience:

Oksana advised the following clients:

Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in connection with the court proceedings commenced by the Trustee, The Law Debenture Trust Corporation, against Ukraine regarding its alleged debt under 3 billion USD bonds purportedly issued by Ukraine in 2013 and 100% taken up by the Russian Federation. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.
Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in the inter-state proceedings worth over USD 80 bln being brought by Ukraine against the Russian Federation before the European Court of Human Rights to address the damages caused by the violations committed by the Russian Federation over full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
JSC CB "PrivatBank" at a quantum stage of a bilateral investment treaty arbitration claim against the Russian Federation with respect to the bank's investments in Crimea. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.

Oksana advised the following clients:

Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in connection with the court proceedings commenced by the Trustee, The Law Debenture Trust Corporation, against Ukraine regarding its alleged debt under 3 billion USD bonds purportedly issued by Ukraine in 2013 and 100% taken up by the Russian Federation. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.
Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in the inter-state proceedings worth over USD 80 bln being brought by Ukraine against the Russian Federation before the European Court of Human Rights to address the damages caused by the violations committed by the Russian Federation over full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
JSC CB "PrivatBank" at a quantum stage of a bilateral investment treaty arbitration claim against the Russian Federation with respect to the bank's investments in Crimea. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.
JSC CB "PrivatBank" in landmark litigations against its former owners in the UK, Cyprus, US, and Israel. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in these matters.
Swedbank in a series of disputes with its borrowers regarding the collection of large outstanding debts totalling over 100 million USD, their recovery against mortgaged property.
ED & F Man Holdings, a major global supplier of food, feeds, and biofuels, on operations of sugar production facilities in Ukraine, including associated M&A, corporate, regulatory, and customs law issues, including legal support regarding its tolling transaction (processing of foreign goods on Ukrainian facilities) covering all aspects of the deal, as well as advising regarding export of agricultural goods from Ukraine and its import to the European Union with use of all available tariff rate quotas under the DCFTA between Ukraine and the EU.
C. Johnson, a global manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals, on various issues of corporate, commercial, customs, and labour law, including regulatory issues relating to imports of various goods to Ukraine, as well as in various disputes with governmental agencies, including disputes initiated by the governmental authorities seeking complete shut-down of the client's operation and the product ban in respect of certain products.