The international law firm Baker McKenzie has appointed two co-heads of its Kyiv office.
As the law firm announced in a press release, Sergey Cherny and Gennady Voitsitsky have been elected co-heads of the Kyiv office. Voitsitsky succeeds Vyacheslav Yakimchuk, who had served as co-managing partner since 2023 and will continue to lead the corporate and M&A practice at Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office.
Sergey Cherny has been a co-managing partner of Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office since 2010 and heads the banking and finance practice, as well as the capital markets practice. He advises clients on cross-border lending, structured finance, securitization, debt capital markets, and debt restructuring. He is ranked among Ukraine’s leading lawyers by authoritative international and Ukrainian legal rankings, including Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 EMEA, and IFLR1000.
Gennadiy Voitsitsky has led the tax law practice at Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office since 2007. He advises multinational corporations, investors, and private clients on international tax planning and structuring, inbound and outbound investments, tax disputes and litigation, as well as private wealth management. He is recognized as one of the leading experts in tax law by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and ITR World Tax.
Baker McKenzie has been operating in Ukraine for 34 years. Despite the challenges posed by the war, the Kyiv office continues to advise Ukrainian and international clients on a wide range of legal and business matters, thereby promoting investment, recovery, and business development in Ukraine.
