Member Profiles

Founded in 2004, Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm provides full range of legal services owing to more than 50 committed professionals located in Ukraine, Austria and the USA. We advise companies from over 30 countries. Nearly half of the Firm’s clients are international companies, including multinational corporations listed in Fortune Global 500. In September, 2015, our firm officially announced opening of the representative office in Vienna, based on the Brandstetter, Baurecht, Pritz & Partners Law Firm. It provides the clients of Lavrynovych & Partners with a special benefit to acquire an expert advice and legal assistance regarding its activities on the territory of the Republic of Austria. Our commitment to internationally recognized professional standards, as well as our efforts in being at the very top of our profession, results in satisfaction of highly valuable clients and external recognition we gain internationally and locally.

Jurinter law firm is one of the first law firms in Ukraine to begin rendering maritime law services after proclamation of independent Ukraine. For the long period of its activity the firm has proved to become a reliable partner and advocate of its clients’ interests both within the national jurisdiction and abroad. Jurinter law firm dealt with numerous major legal cases and claims of Azov Shipping Company, that used to be one of the biggest shipping companies in Ukraine, such as assisting the latter to withdraw their vessels globally from a number of foreign charterers to whom the vessels were bareboat chartered. The firm has been legal adviser of Azov shipyard on the matters concerning their foreign economic activity. Jurinter law firm was the first among Ukrainian law firms jointly with English law firm Lawrence Graham to apply successfully both in English and Ukrainian jurisdictions the provisions of newly adopted Commercial Maritime Code of Ukraine and international conventions relating to limitation of liability and in particular that of the owner of m/v “Alkor” (the vessel capsized at port Kherson with full cargo on board) and succeeded in minimizing the owners’ losses considerably. The company successfully defended in Ukrainian courts the interests of big Russian shipping company Volgotanker in connection with the huge claim of the local ecological authorities against the company due to the oil spill in Mariupol port and managed to prove with the team of best experts employed that neither of the vessels owned by the said company could be considered liable for the spill. The firm represents both in Ukraine and abroad the interests of many other shipping companies in connection with ship arrests, exercising lien over the cargo, collisions, demurrage, crew claims etc. Equally, the firm renders legal services to the charterers, leading insurance companies (Ingosstrakh, Raets Marine etc) and mutual insurance associations, such as British Marine Mutual, West of England, UK PandI Club etc., insurance brokers, forwarding companies, crewing companies and ship agents. The firm has vast experience in settlement of mass fatal and severe injury cases, both local and cross border ones, in connection with ship collisions, sinking, explosions etc. Besides representing owners, charterers, insurance companies in the courts Jurinter legal firm has been representing them also in Maritime Arbitration Commissions of Ukraine and Russia, English arbitration (LMAA), consults on concluding of charter parties, demurrage claims, cargo claims and provides claims handling services taking all possible steps to avoid costly litigation and/or secure the client’s claims, provide expert advice/affidavits on various issues of Ukrainian law within legal proceedings abroad. Deep understanding by the firm’s lawyers of the industry and clients’ needs combined with experience and in-depth knowledge of maritime law and practice, best foreign languages and correspondence skills ensure efficient and speedy attendance and cost effective solutions tailored for each client’s case. Our firm is equally represented in the following ports of Ukraine: Odessa, Chernomorsk (ex Ilyichevsk), Mariupol, Nikolaev, Kherson.

The firm of Patent and Trademark attorneys KIEVPAT was founded in 2000 by Nina Moshynska and Yuliya Moshynska. Specialization of our firm – protection of intellectual property rights. Patent and Trademark attorneys and lawyers of KIEVPAT offers full range of services in intellectual property matters including preparing and filing of applications for a trademark, industrial design, copyright, utility models, patent registrations, maintaining of intellectual property objects, registration and maintaining of intellectual property objects into the Customs Registry of Ukraine, preparing of license agreements and assignment agreements, registration of agreements before the Ukrainian authority, representing the Client’s interests in pre-trial proceedings, conducting of negotiations, preparing and sending of cease and desist letters, representing the Client’s interests before the Courts and Ukrainian authorities, preparing and implementing of anti-counterfeit strategies and protection of rights against unfair competition activities. Advanced system of partnerships with foreign law firms, extensive experience and modern means of communication allow handling matters of national and international clients quickly and efficiently, both in Ukraine and in any other country in the world. Patent attorneys and lawyers of KIEVPAT are high quality professionals being a members of Ukrainian Association of Patent Attorneys, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), International Trademark Association (INTA), Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES), French Association of Trade Mark and Design Law Practitioners (https://apram.com), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (http://www.grur.org/en.html) and Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI).

Jonás Bergstein is an expert in taxation, corporate transactions, and distribution law.

Doctor in Law and Social Sciences from the University of the Republic, Uruguay (1996). Postgraduate degree in Commercial Law, University of the Republic, Uruguay (1998). Master in Intellectual Property. Professor of Commercial Law, University of the Republic, Uruguay (2006-2009). Specialist in trademark and anti-piracy law. Trademark Agent. President of the Chamber for the Fight against Piracy and Smuggling. President of the Uruguayan chapter of the World Jurist Association. Expresident of the CERTAL Uruguay Chapter. She was a founding member of the Permanent Commission for the Defense of Intellectual Property Rights of the Ministry of the Interior. Member of the Anti-Piracy Committee MARQUES. She was Vice President and then President of INTA’s global committee on trademark counterfeiting for the 2016-2020 period. Member of the board of AUDAPI (Uruguayan Association of Intellectual Property Agents) for the period 2020-2023. Languages: Spanish and English. The Firm Ours is a story of constant growth, with more than 30 years of experience. Over the last three decades we have closely followed the changes that have completely transformed the business ecosystem worldwide: the irruption of the internet, the digitalization of services, the globalization of trade, the development of new technologies and the change in the rules governing business which have revealed a complex world in which the quality, security and efficiency of legal actions are crucial. Our solutions adapt to the changing pace of the world, are personalized and delivered and allow our clients to focus on their business. We currently operate in five regional offices that provide services to companies in Latin America and globally.