Oleg Shaulko

Legal Director | London, United Kingdom
Get in touch

Profile

Oleg Shaulko is a legal director at Kennedys’ London office. Oleg specializes in international dispute resolution, with a particular focus on international arbitration and civil litigation. His extensive experience encompasses commercial and international trade disputes, defence against hostile takeovers, debt collection, and digital assets transactions.

Oleg regularly advises corporates and individuals on various transactional matters, white-collar investigations, civil fraud, and asset recovery matters, including tracing and ringfencing cryptocurrencies. He is skilled in obtaining and defending against worldwide freezing injunctions and similar interim measures in support of underlying civil and arbitration proceedings.

Oleg is the Head of the Representative Office of the Ukrainian National Bar Association in the United Kingdom and is a member of the Ukrainian Desk at Kennedys.

Qualifications:

  • Solicitor of England & Wales
  • Ukrainian Advocate

Work highlights

  • Represented an Estonian oil trader in an LCIA arbitration over a multimillion-dollar breach of contracts, involving issues of sanctions and concealment of assets by the debtor.
  • Defended the Ukrainian GNT Group, which operates one of the largest grain ports in the Black Sea and participates in Ukraine’s critical UN Grain Corridor Initiative, against US-based creditors enforcing a US$118 million loan facility. The representation included defending the beneficial owners of GNT Group in the English High Court against a worldwide freezing order granted against them.
  • Represented a Swiss-based private investor in arbitration and cross-border civil action supported by U.S. discovery measures in a dispute against Soneva, a real estate developer, over a multimillion-dollar investment into a property development project in Thailand.
  • Represented a UHNWI in the English High Court in complex proceedings involving unjust enrichment claims stemming from the termination of a partnership valued at approximately US$950 million between three Ukrainian businessmen.
  • Represented PrivatBank, the largest Ukrainian bank, in a dispute concerning the fraudulent misappropriation of over US$1.9 billion by its former owners domiciled in Switzerland, with the assistance of English and BVI companies through which the Bank alleged that misappropriated monies were laundered.
  • Represented an Israeli-based digital assets trader in a dispute over a multi-million dollar cryptocurrency transaction, which involved tracing and ringfencing cryptocurrency for judgement enforcement purposes.

Services

Sectors