- Managing partner, attorney at law
- Head of corporate practice
- Head of tax and customs practice
Yaroslav Romanchuk advises clients on the most complex matters of corporate, tax and customs law, transfer pricing, investment structuring, business restructuring, commercialisation of intellectual property and tax planning involving intangible assets.
As an attorney admitted to both the Ukrainian and Polish bar registers, he specialises in White-Collar Crime Defence, asset protection, management of fraud and corruption risks in the corporate sector, and has extensive experience in conducting forensic investigations.
A distinct area of Yaroslav’s practice is legal support for defence industry enterprises and for the circulation of dual-use and military goods, including matters of state export control.
Yaroslav represents Ukrainian and international companies, state-owned enterprises and individuals in the most complex corporate, tax and customs disputes and in criminal proceedings, including those involving extradition.
With a deep understanding of the Polish and Ukrainian business environments, he successfully provides legal support to foreign investors and international businesses entering the Ukrainian market, and to Ukrainian businesses expanding into foreign markets.
Yaroslav is recommended by the leading international legal directories Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, World Tax and World TP as a leading national expert in tax law. He is annually ranked among the TOP 5 tax lawyers in Ukraine.
He regularly takes part in the drafting of Ukrainian regulatory and legislative acts, is the author of numerous professional publications in Ukrainian and international media, and a participant in international conferences, forums, congresses, seminars and round tables.
Practices
Membership and activities:
- Member of the Entrepreneurial Council under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- Chairman of the Board of the Eastern European Institute for Combating Fraud, Corruption and Forensic Investigations
- Chairman of the Board of the Association of Ukrainian Business in Poland
- Partner of the TPA Global (Amsterdam)
- Member of the International Fiscal Association
- Board Member of the Ukrainian Business Association
- Head of the Supervisory Board of the Transfer Pricing School
Previous membership and activities:
- President of the Tax Advisers Association (2014-2016)
- Vice President of the Polish Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw) (2014-2016)
- Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce Ukraine (2010-2014)
- Member of the ICC Commission on Taxation (Paris) (2012-2016)
- Head of the Public Council at the Ministry of Income and Charges of Ukraine (2012-2014)
- Head of the Public Council at the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (2010-2012)
Recent client experience:
- Representation of Kyivstar, the leading mobile operator in Ukraine, in a number of tax disputes related to the abolition of illegal tax notifications of decisions, including the issue of VAT refunds from the state budget
- Representing the interests of Savik Shuster Studio on appealing tax notices and defending journalist Savik Shuster in criminal proceedings for tax evasion
- Representation of interests of PJSC “LINIK”, the second largest refinery in Ukraine, in a number of tax disputes on the abolition of tax notices-decisions
- Representation of the interests of the shipping company “Ukrrichflot” in appealing tax notices-decisions in courts
- Representing the interests of the TNK-BP group of companies, a leading oil and gas company, in tax disputes, including VAT refunds from the state budget
- Representing the interests of Mikogen-Ukraine, one of the leaders in the production of compost for growing mushrooms on the European market, in disputes with the tax authorities on the cancellation of their illegal decisions
- Advising Fozzy Group, one of the largest commercial and industrial groups in Ukraine, on corporate business structuring using Polish jurisdiction
- Representing the interests of OPOS-TORG LLC, leading international meat suppliers in Ukraine, regarding the inclusion of the company in the list of risky taxpayers and blocking the company’s activities
Education:
- Master of law, Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Certified FIDIC Expert (Practical Use of FIDIC Conditions of Contracts, provided by AECU)
- Lincoln Law School of San Jose (California, USA), Certificate of Completion, Law Firm Management Training, 2015
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Languages:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Polish
- German