GOLAW Announces New Partners

October 5, 2018 – GOLAW, an international law firm with offices in Ukraine and Germany, announces Kateryna Manoylenko, Iryna Kalnytska and Igor Glushko as new partners at the firm.

“Welcoming Kateryna, Iryna and Igor as new partners to our firm is an important step which demonstrates our continued commitment to the growing needs of our clients. These new partners have been working with GOLAW for many years and have been team leaders among their colleagues working on some of our most important and high profile cases. Their addition to our partnership represents the next stage in our strategic development and we are confident their leadership at GOLAW as partners will advance our established record of excellence”.

Valentyn Gvozdiy,
GOLAW Managing Partner

Kateryna Manoylenko
Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution Practice, Attorney at Law

Kateryna Manoylenko heads the Dispute Resolution practice of the Firm, which represents the client interests in complicated and challenging litigation cases. She has a proven track record of complex client disputes settlements, leading legal cases in the courts of all instances and jurisdictions, court decision execution and the conduct of mediation procedures. Kateryna has been highly recognised for herachievements in the field of Litigation practice by the prestigious international ranking Best Lawyers 2019.

Iryna Kalnytska
Partner, Head of Tax Practice, Attorney at Law

The main areas of Iryna’s activities are consulting Ukrainian and foreign companies onnational and international taxation, tax risk management, tax structuring of agreements and judicial appeals of tax decision notices. Iryna has extensive experience in representing the interests of foreign and Ukrainian financial institutions during the conclusion of loan agreements, restructuring loans, resumption of rights to pledged items, foreclosure and transfer of pledged property to relevant banks. The team led by Iryna at GOLAW has consistently achieved favorable results for banks with hostile debtors even in extrajudicial order. In 2018, Iryna Kalnytska received the honor of individual recognition by the prestigious international ranking The Legal 500.

Igor Glushko
Partner, Head of Criminal Law & White Collar Defense, Attorney at Law

Igor Glushko chairs the practice of Criminal Law & White Collar Defense. He has extensive experience of defense in criminal proceedings, especially with business entities in the sphere of service and economic activities and with a particular expertise in state security-related issues. Igor has significant experience in providing legal support to the negotiation process on the return of illegally retained assets and documentation, representation of the interests of companies before law enforcement agencies, and significant expertise in the process of determining the amount of material damages caused by criminally punishable actions. Igor is the author of the 2018 published method manual “The Beginning of Criminal Procedure: Tips from an Attorney at Law”.