IFA Ukraine Business
Focused Meetings:
Agricultural Sector
April 28, 2015
Kyiv, Ukraine
INVITATION
TO SEMINAR
ORGANISERS’
INFORMATION
Dear Colleagues!
Hosting Branch
IFA Ukraine
Central IFA
IFA Ukraine, a Ukrainian branch of International Fiscal Association, has well established itself in
Ukraine as a unique and neutral platform for representatives of all sectors - business, consulting,
governments, the judiciary and universities - to meet and discuss topical issues of international
taxation.
IFA Ukraine is the Ukrainian branch
of the International Fiscal Association
(IFA). IFA Ukraine is a non-profit
organization established in Ukraine
in 2007. IFA Ukraine was officially
recognized by IFA at the 61st IFA
Kyoto Congress during September
2007.
International Fiscal Association
(IFA), Netherlands, is the only
non-governmental and non-sectoral
international organization dealing
with fiscal matters over the globe.
To enhance our dialogue with businesses, we have developed our new initiative – IFA Ukraine
Business Focused Meetings, designed to cover tax and legal aspects of cross-border activities of
major industry sectors in Ukraine.
Our second business focused meeting will be dedicated to tax and legal aspects of agricultural
sector in Ukraine.
The tax and legal framework of Ukrainian agro sector has been recently under impressive slot
of reforms, and more reform efforts will have to happen in the near future, including because of
gradual approximation of Ukrainian legislation to the relevant EU laws under EU Association
Agreement.
IFA Ukraine experts and representatives from agricultural business will discuss key challenges of
the current situation in the market (special VAT regime, unified agricultural tax, land lease issues,
cross-border structuring, land mark court cases etc), as well as will hear latest news on reform
initiatives and discuss possible impact of expected trends on the business.
We invite you to benefit from the offered opportunity and to join us in our professional
discussions and comfortable networking environment.
Sincerely,
Olena Voznyuk
IFA Ukraine President
IFA Ukraine is the only organization
in Ukraine dealing exclusively with
international tax matters.
IFA Ukraine has grown in a short time
to over 50 members.
www.ifa-ukraine.org
IFA brings together more than
12,000 practitioners, tax officials
and academics from 111 member
countries, involved in and concerned
with taxation of international
transactions and comparative study
of tax laws.
Based in Rotterdam, IFA, since its
foundation in 1938, has provided,
in conjunction with the activities
of each country branch, a blend
of comprehensive research of
international taxation and the
development of programs and
initiatives of current practical
importance.
www.ifa.nl
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
Voznyuk, Olena
Blazhko, Roman
Vakhitov, Roustam
Miliutin, Arsen
President,
IFA Ukraine
Senior Associate,
Lavrynovych & Partners Law
Firm
Partner,
International Tax Associates B.V.
Senior Associate,
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev
& Partners Ukraine
Olena is a Tax and Legal Partner at Nexia DK. Olena has
more than 12 years of experience in advising multinational
and domestic clients on tax structuring of inbound and
outbound investments, M&A structuring, pre-acquisition
and post-acquisition restructuring, Transfer Pricing etc.
Olena served as a tax partner and senior tax lawyer for
the leading Ukrainian law firms. She also worked as tax
consultant at PwC Kyiv. In February 2014 Olena was elected
as the President of the Ukrainian branch of International
Fiscal Association. Olena is a member of the Public Council
to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
Roman has 13 years of experience in practicing law, and is
one of Ukraine’s leading experts in taxation; he advises on all
aspects of tax planning, Ukrainian and international taxation,
tax issues in real estate, import and export of goods, tax and
customs inspections. Roman has also worked on a number of
complex merger and acquisition projects with regard to tax
structuring of transactions, including selection of the most
optimal jurisdictions for the transaction parties in terms of
taxation. Roman Blazhko has vast experience in appealing
against tax decision notices in administrative proceedings,
representing clients’ interests in administrative courts of all
instances in connection with appeals against tax decision
notices, acts or omissions of tax and customs authorities.
Roustam Vakhitov is an expert in international taxation.
Before joining International Tax Associates B.V. Roustam
worked for consulting companies in Russia, the Netherlands
and Luxembourg. He has been addressing international
taxation issues since 2002, after obtaining LL.M. degree
in International Taxation from Leiden University (The
Netherlands).
Specialization: international taxation, tax structuring
and consulting with the use of international tax treaties,
supporting transactions with the use of financial
instruments, structuring private investments (funds) and
supporting international mergers and acquisitions, as well as
Islamic finance transactions.
Arsen Miliutin is a senior associate of the Litigation Practice
at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine. He leads
a team of lawyers when representing clients in commercial,
administrative and general courts.
Before transferring to private practice he held positions of
Chief of Civil and Economic Procedure Department at the
office of the Government official of Ukraine in the affairs of
the European Court of Human Rights (Ministry of Justice
of Ukraine) and chief of legal services of large national
production and trading companies.
Arsen is a member of Kyiv City Bar Association,
International Bar Association and Ukrainian Bar Association.
Boichuk, Oleg
Ulyanova, Natalya
Manoylenko, Kateryna
Shtukaturova, Anzhelika
Counsel,
Egorov Puginsky
Afanasiev & Partners
Ukraine
Head of Department,
ICF Legal Services
Senior Assosiate,
Gvozdiy & Oberkovych Law
Firm
Associate, Dentons
Oleg Boichuk is a Counsel of M&A and Corporate Practice
and a Head of Real Estate Practice at Egorov Puginsky
Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine. He focuses on mergers and
acquisitions, real estate matters, as well as compliance issues,
including antimonopoly regulation.
Oleg is especially experienced in structuring and protection
of real estate investments, as well as transactional real estate
matters.
In the field of mergers and acquisitions, Oleg provides
legal advice through all stages of complex cross-border and
local transactions, including full scope legal due diligence,
structuring, drafting and negotiation of agreements and
other transaction documents, ensuring necessary regulatory
approvals, closing and post-closing support.
In addition, Oleg regularly advises on antimonopoly and
compliance issues.
Natalya Ulyanova is the Head of International Tax Planning
Department at ICF Legal Services. Natalya has over 15 years
of professional experience in international tax planning, tax
risks assessment, business restructuring/M&A, complex
consulting on corporate and tax schemes, as well as on
corporate management matters.
Natalya has more than 10 years of experience in organising
and speaking at the array of conferences and seminars on the
latest achievements and developments of International tax
planning. She is the author of numerous publications on tax
and corporate matters in the main business periodicals in
Ukraine.
Natalya graduated from the Institute of International
Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Kateryna Manoylenko is a Senior Assosiate in the Gvozdiy &
Oberkovych Law Firm’s litigation practice and is specialized
in clients representation in administrative, economic and
civil legal court proceedings.
She has profound theoretical knowledge and practical
experience in disputes with state and local regulatory
authorities, namely, in the field of agricultural sector, family
and labor law, including labor disputes and implementation
of support processes. Also Kateryna Manoylenko provides
legal consultations to operators and telecommunications
providers, specializing in intellectual property.
Kateryna Manoylenko is a co-author of the analytical and
practical guide “Guidelines for legal assistance to business
entities during tax audits” issued by the Ukrainian National
Bar Association. She also actively contributes to her own
legal blog, writes articles and expert comments for periodic
publications.
Anzhelika Shtukaturova is an associate in Dentons’ Kyiv
office. She is a member of the Global Real Estate Group, as
well as a member of the Global Energy, Oil and Gas Group.
Anzhelika focuses on Ukrainian and European land law,
environmental law, construction and real estate law, mineral
resources research (survey) and mining. Anzhelika possesses
significant experience consulting clients on obtaining
titles to land, land plot purchase and lease, change of land
use, land reclamation during survey and production of
the mineral resources, construction of logistic buildings,
hotels, industrial and production plants, shopping malls;
commercial lease, dispute resolution in real estate, land use,
construction and environment.
Anzhelika graduated from the law department of the
National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Bachelor’s
Degree, with honors, 2000; Master’s Degree, with honors,
2001; post-graduate studies, 2002-2006).
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
Borodkin, Oleksandr
Partner,
Vasil Kisil & Partners
Oleksandr Borodkin, Partner of VKP’s Real Estate,
Construction & Land Law Practice Group, has been a
member of the VKP team since 2005.
Oleksandr advises foreign investors, Ukrainian developers
and other real estate market operators on a wide range of
cross-border and domestic transactions involving purchase
and development of construction projects, mergers and
acquisitions, investment, etc.
Oleksandr Borodkin is an experienced specialist in the field
of transactions and projects in the public sector. His practice
in the given fields covers matters relating to transaction
structuring, tax planning, corporate, antimonopoly, FX,
regulatory and other aspects of transactions implementation,
and risk assessment and management.
Oleksandr is the author of a range of articles on construction
and land matters; and an active participant and speaker at real
estate and construction conferences.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome Address
9:10 – 11:00
• Latest Trends in Agricultural Business in Ukraine:
Legal and Business Perspectives
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 • Specific Commercial and Antimonopoly Risks
of Agreements in Agro Sector
• Taxation of Agricultural Sector in Ukraine: Key Issues
(special VAT regime, unified agricultural tax)
• Agrarian Сompanies Entry into European Market.
Structuring Opportunities.
• Specifics of Land Transaction in Agrarian Market
• Typical Islamic Models of Financing of Agricultural Sector
• Court Practice on Changing Land Normative Monetary
Value and Land Lease Payment
• 2015-2020 Strategy Development Plan for Agricultural
Sector: Tax Aspects
• Application of Latest Court Practice in Regulation
of Agrarian Relations
Panelists:
Oleg Boichuk, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
Panelists:
Arsen Miliutin, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
Oleksandr Borodkin, Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm
Natalya Ulyanova, ICF Legal Services
Anzhelika Shtukaturova, Dentons
Roustam Vakhitov, International Tax Associates B.V.
Roman Blazhko, Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm
Kateryna Manoylenko, Gvozdiy & Oberkovych Law Firm
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Seminar registration includes
participation in sessions, electronic
access to technical papers and
refreshments during seminar hours.
For detailed and updated Seminar information,
we invite you to visit the IFA Ukraine website at ifa-ukraine.org
Seminar will take place at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev &
Partners (38 Volodymyrska St.), Kyiv, Ukraine.
IFA Ukraine
Tel.: +38 096 407 89 72
Email: [email protected]
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Payment Order
Official language
IFA Ukraine will email the invoice
upon receiving electronic registration.
The Seminar language will be Ukrainian/Russian.
All charges related to payments by
bank transfers must be covered
by the Participants.
Registration Fee
Representatives from agricultural
industry – free;
Non-members – UAH 2,000;
IFA Ukraine Members – UAH 1,000.
Seminar hours
9:00 – 13:00
Sponsorship
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities,
please contact IFA Ukraine at [email protected].
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