The company offers support in all major sectors of economy. It has been recognized over 100 times as the No. 1 law firm in key practice areas and named "Best Law Firm in Ukraine" more than 30 times by the most prestigious professional excellence awards.
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Main
There are four companies in Sayenko Kharenko:
Law Firm Sayenko Kharenko
EDRPOU code: 38705584
Address: Kyiv, provulok Muzeyniy, 10.
Founded in 2013.
Authorized capital: UAH 70,000.
Founders: Vladimir Sayenko, Michael Kharenko
Director: Oleksii Shevliakov
Sayenko Kharenko LLC
EDRPOU code: 33104920
Address: Kyiv, Gonchara str., 42.
Founded in 2004.
Authorized capital: UAH 21,000.
Founders: Vladimir Sayenko, Michael Kharenko, and Nazar Chernyavsky.
Director: Bohdan Yanchuck
Sayenko Kharenko Ukraine LLC
EDRPOU code: 38005141
Address: Kyiv, provulok Muzeyniy, 10.
Founded in 2012.
Authorized capital: UAH 100.
Founders: Vladimir Sayenko, Michael Kharenko, and Nazar Chernyavsky.
Director: Oleksii Shevliakov
Law Firm Sayenko Kharenko LLC
EDRPOU code: 33349698
Address: Kyiv, Gonchara str., 42.
Founded in 2005
Authorized capital: UAH 27,000
Founders: Vladimir Sayenko, Michael Kharenko, and Nazar Chernyavsky.
Director: Oleksii Shevliakov
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Income, number of employees, assets
The company does not provide any information about its income. However, according to Dead Lawyers Society, the company's profit in 2018 is UAH 346.6 million, and UAH 253 million for in 2017.
34 lawyers of Sayenko Kharenko were recognized as the best in the annual Best Lawyers 2020 rating. The firm has many large international clients, including Philip Morris, UBS, and Evraz.
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History of the company
The company was founded in 2004 by partners: Vladimir Sayenko (previously worked in the Kyiv office of the international law firm BC Toms & Co), and Michael Kharenko, who previously worked as a partner at the law firm Shevchenko Didkovskiy & Partners (since 2008 — Asters).
'Unlike most of our colleagues, we did not create a firm while being still a student, but did it after working for ten years as hired employees in Western law firms. By that time, the market already knew us,' Sayenko told Focus.
People's Deputy from the Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation.
Before being elected to the Rada, she was an entrepreneur. Her income was more than UAH 500,000 per year that she received from Foundation for Support of Reforms in Ukraine.
Lawyer, specialist in private international law and international arbitration, honored lawyer of Ukraine.
Former head of the Central Election Commission (October 5, 2018 — September 13, 2019). It was she who handed over to Volodymyr Zelensky the certificate of the President of Ukraine during the inauguration.
Before being elected head of the Central Election Commission, Slipachuk was a partner in Sayenko Kharenko.
Former Deputy Minister of Justice, former head of the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA).
His brother Bohdan Yanchuk is the director of Sayenko Kharenko LLC.
According to Nashi Groshi, since 2015, the Ministry of Justice has spent million on lawyers in the cases of Privatbank and Kolomoisky. Legal services of Sayenko Kharenko to the ministry cost 3,000.
Leonid Antonenko is a former deputy of the Kyiv City Council.
Since February 2020, he is first deputy head of the State Property Fund.
He worked in several well-known law firms, including Sayenko Kharenko.
In 2015, he was the director of the department of registration issues and licensing of the NBU.
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Scandals
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In the fall of 2019, there was a scandal in the Rada — MP of European Solidarity Nina Yuzhanina and former MP Borislav Bereza accused Roksolana Pidlas of a conflict of interest.
Being a leader of the interfactional association "ZA FOP", Pildas was a co-author of the law on cash registers. The fund where Pidlas had worked before receiving the mandate founded two companies: one was engaged in software development for cash registers, the other one was associated with the head of the State Tax Service at that time.
Pidlas assures that there is no conflict of interest. She is allegedly not familiar with Verlanov, and there are dozens of people working in the ministries who receive salaries through the Foundation for Support of Reforms in Ukraine.
'They pay from a multi-donor account that receives funds from the EBRD, the European Union and certain EU countries,' Radio Liberty quotes Roksolana Pildas.
profiles
This is not the first time Sayenko Kharenko was involved in a conflict of interest. For instance, Farmak has been suing other pharmaceutical manufacturers for Corvalol trademark for many years.
Several years ago, Farmak demanded from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade to grant their medicine the status "well-known" and then filed a lawsuit to cancel the registration of its competitors.
The ministry quickly met their demands, perhaps because the position of Deputy Minister of Economy was taken by Nataliya Mykolska who used to work at Sayenko Kharenko before taking this position. And it was Sayenko Kharenko that represented the interests of Farmak in the Corvalol case.
'This raises questions about the obvious signs of a conflict of interest,' the media wrote in 2017.
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Merits
Sayenko Kharenko's partner Michael Kharenko, together with Ukrainian businessmen, created charity foundation Dyshy (eng."Breath!"). They raise funds for Ukrainian hospitals and scientists who are fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine.