Anna Gnyp

Experience

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  Consul Law Company

  Dec 2006 - Aug 2007

  Paralegal
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  HLB Ukraine

  Sept 2007 - Nov 2017

  KEY EXPERIENCE:• contractual work;• foreign economic activity;• appellation of decisions and actions of tax and other controlling authorities;• commercial disputes;• support of investment projects;• legal due diligence of different objects;• drafting internal and other documents of the company;• support of dispute resolutions between consumers and both retail and service organizations;• recognition and enforcement of foreign court judgments in Ukraine;• execution of judgments on debts enforcement;• registration and liquidation of companies and foreign representative offices, reorganization of companies, introduction of changes to constituent documents;• advising on labor law issues;• documents for foreign citizens.ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROJECTS:• self-selection, building and management of a team of 5 lawyers, communication and customer support;• development from scratch of a new brand of legal services;• years-long legal support of corporate clients (wholesale and retail companies) as the sole lawyer in the company (alternative to in-house lawyer);• support of more than 60 investment projects of foreign companies related to entering the Ukrainian market;• successful protection of major foreign companies interests in international commercial arbitration in legal disputes on enforcement of debts in significant amounts with following recognition of the decisions;• advising of a major foreign retailer regarding negotiation and conclusion of more than 100 commercial real estate lease agreements;• reaching a settlement agreement on disputes regarding non-fulfilment of contracts, which resulted in actual receipt of funds by the client and termination of proceedings;• judicial cancellation of tax authorities decisions on accrual of additional tax liabilities in significant amounts;• successful protection of clients' interests in national courts with development of legal positions that are innovative to Ukrainian judicial practice. Show less

  • Senior Associate

    Jan 2015 - Nov 2017

  • Associate

    Jul 2011 - Dec 2014

  • Paralegal

    Sept 2007 - Jun 2011
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  AF Pragnum

  Dec 2017 - May 2018

  Senior Associate

  KEY EXPERIENCE:• active court practice (disputes on debt enforcement, changing and termination of contracts, challenging validity of contracts, reclamation of property, appeal of legal individual acts, etc.);• advising clients;• contractual work;• administrative issues (commercial proposals, memoranda, advertising materials, etc);• participation in public events as a speaker.

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  Asters

  Sept 2018 - Nov 2022

  KEY EXPERIENCE:• complex management and support of projects of various levels of complexity, risk assessment, strategic planning;• management of lawyers team (direct subordinates and project teams), direct communication with clients;• hands-on legal work, including:— investment projects and M&A;— legal due diligence of business and separate objects;— judicial protection of interests (disputes with banks, contractual economic disputes, tax disputes);— foreign economic activity (contracts, currency regulation, customs issues);— contractual work (structuring transactions, development and analysis of contracts of various levels of complexity, negotiations, coordination of contracts);— advising on a wide range of issues (economic, corporate, labor, tax, regulatory, etc.);— drafting internal documentation (policies, orders, plans, etc.);• comprehensive support of clients' trade and production enterprises;• work with external legal advisors in foreign jurisdictions, agents, etc.;• administrative issues and coordination of client work;• client acquisition;• public speaking and publicist activity.ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROJECTS:• providing legal support to the largest Ukrainian private clinic in its acquisition of a highly specialized medical institution (cross-border structuring, planning financing, conducting legal due diligence of the business, and drafting transactional documents);• advising on creation of investment funds in order to manage financial flows and ensure optimal economic and tax conditions for investment;• advising a foreign company on investments in a joint venture in Ukraine and agreements between JV participants;• advising on the formation of a land bank: planning the procedure for financing transactions, structuring contractual relationships, preventing risks of losing land rights;• advising an international airline on opening a base and day-to-day operations in Ukraine;• providing legal support in the settlement of a credit conflict. Show less

  • Counsel

    Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Senior Associate

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2022
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  Alerion Société d'Avocats

  Jul 2022 - Nov 2022

  Law Specialist

  KEY EXPERIENCE:• work on court proceedings considered by French courts with prospects of further execution of judgments in foreign jurisdictions;• participation in work on corporate and M&A projects.

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  Fabiosa Media

  Nov 2022 - now

  Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

  KEY EXPERIENCE:• building and management of legal and compliance teams, including hiring, goals and OKR setting, mentoring, reviews and evaluations, etc.;• leading and support of major strategic projects of the company;• comprehensive support of all ongoing business operations in different jurisdictions, including:— acquisition of content rights and in-house production of content;— managing the company’s IP portfolio;— employment matters and other ways of engaging specialists;— contract issues, cooperation with partners and cross-border transactions;— corporate matters, internal policies and documents;— dealing with KYC, AML and other compliance issues;— addressing all regulatory issues;— compliance with platforms’ policies, terms and conditions.ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROJECTS:• setting up legal function of the company from scratch and compliance function reboot, with building and leading experienced and driven teams capable of addressing all needs and projects of the business;• development of new corporate structure of the group with further leading cross-border corporate restructuring and setting up a group holding (including tax, corporate, security, financial and operational planning);• successful and safe AI implementation in all divisions of the company;• completion of the business operational and corporate spin-off from the second business unit;• support of business reboot provided switching from production to publishing model;• addressing more than 8 thousand cases of IP rights claims on different platforms;• development of comprehensive product policy and setting up content teams self-moderation instead of previously existing separate moderation function;• setting up permanent monetization control that addressed previously regular demonetization cases with significant financial losses for business;• hitting three new platforms with development of the presence strategies, monetization planning, creation of internal flows and procedures. Show less