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Ihor Olekhov Leaves Baker McKenzie for CMS Kyiv

Ihor Olekhov Leaves Baker McKenzie for CMS Kyiv

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Former Baker McKenzie Partner Ihor Olekhov, who spent over 20 years with the firm, has joined CMS in Ukraine as a Partner.

Olekhov has experience in advising clients on a range of finance, banking, and investment projects and transactions, as well as corporate governance, corporate reorganizations, and financial regulation, compliance, and tax matters. 

CMS Kyiv Managing Partner Graham Conlon commented: “We are thrilled that Ihor will join our team in Kyiv. He is a very skilled lawyer who has worked on some impressive landmark transactions and projects in Ukraine and will enhance the capabilities of our market-leading team in Kyiv, growing our finance offering. He is an excellent fit for CMS with his international experience and track record to date”.

Olekhov received his law degree from the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University in 1999 and obtained an LLM degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2002.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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