Lawyers Profiles
Vitaliy SERDYUK Vitaliy SERDYUK Partner, AVER LEX Attorneys at law. Attorney, board member of Ukrainian Tax Advisors Association, Coordinator of the Section of attorneys and lawyers of the Ukrainian Bar Association. Vitaliy is one of a small number of highly-qualified experts in criminal defense in the sphere of commercial and corporate activity, in the field of protection of the subjects of entrepreneurial activity and anti-raiding protection of business

Education:

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2002), V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Professional experience:

Vitaliy Serdyuk deals with protection of officials in politically motivated persecutions; protection from illegal acts of law enforcement authorities, business partners and competitors. Mr. Serdyuk was the leader of a working group of the Ukrainian Bar Association dealing with reform of the Criminal Procedural Code. Vitaliy Serdyuk actively ensures the provision of emergency legal defense against unlawful actions on the part of state authorities and third persons within the framework of the Ukrainian Bar Association Hot line, NGO The Bar Council of Ukraine, the Bar Council of Kiev.

The professionalism of Vitaliy Serdyuk was contributed to the recognition of the Aver Lex Attorneys at Law among the best law firms in the sphere of “dispute resolution” according to international ranking Chambers and Partners 2016. In 2015 and 2012 Mr. Serdyuk received an award in The Best Criminal Case Attorney nomination, which was a part of the annual legal prize. According to research Legal 500 EMEA 2015, Vitaliy was recommended as real professionals in the sphere of disputes resolution. He was mentioned in the 100 best lawyers of the court practice respectively to research Choice of a client: TOP 100 best lawyers of Ukraine 2015. As consistent with research 50 Leading Law Firms of Ukraine 2015, 2014, 2013 Vitaliy was awarded as the leading lawyer in criminal cases. In 2015, 2014, 2013 Mr. Serdyik was recognized by Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients as the one of the best in the fields of criminal law/business crime. According to all-Ukrainian independent public rating Attorney of the year 2013, Vitaliy was among the top 5 attorneys.

 


Vitaliy SERDYUK leading in

7 Criminal Law / White-Collar Crime


AVER LEX

Address:
2 Khrestovyi Alley,
5 Floor, Kiev, 01010
Tel.:
+380 44 300 1151
Fax:
+380 44 300 1153

AVER LEX is the only specialist leading law company in Ukraine whose main activity is providing legal defense in especially complicated criminal cases and corporate business security.

In 2012 tow famous Ukrainian lawyers, Olga Prosyanyuk and Vitaliy Serdyuk, created a powerful team of professionals with a great deal of experience, broad range of knowledge, a constant desire to develop and a high level of responsibility and dedication. Today, the friendly AVER LEX team consists of 5 Partners and 25 specialists in the sphere of Criminal Law, Taxation and Litigation.      

Nowadays our specialists defend the interests of foreign and Ukrainian clients in many big resonant cases. Taking into account the common practice of law-enforcement bodies applying illegal methods of collecting proof and falsification of criminal proceedings, we are realizing more and more the importance of comprehensive participation in defense at strategic and tactical levels; which individual lawyers will find impossible to cope with. That is why from the very beginning of our activity, we decided to be the best in one thing rather than to be simply good in everything. 

The above is proven by both international and Ukrainian ratings. Besides, according to Legal Awards 2015 AVER LEX Attorneys at Law won the nomination “Law firm of the year in business defense” and was recognized as the best in Criminal Law by the international research publication Legal 500 EMEA 2015.

All lawyers put the onus in their work of perfection of criminal practice, developing effective and active strategies of defense from illegal revisions by controlling and law-enforcement bodies in accordance with the specificity of a business,  from their negative consequences, seizures by raiders, pressure from the law-enforcement bodies via stress searches, arrests or persecution, etc.

Our clients can always count on unique strategic solutions, a real result, confidentiality and an individual approach to every person. That is why leading national companies, internal and foreign individual investors and well-known business and political figures trust the lawyers of our company. The reason is that we know the secret of long-lasting partnership relations!

There is nothing impossible for us and we always know what we want! This is the motivation that moves us forward!