Oleksandr V. Pavlenko specializes in International public and private law, WTO legislation, civil and commercial law, legal regulation of home and foreign trade, Climate Change and environmental protection legislation, corporate law, investment legislation.

Oleksandr Pavlenko is admitted to the Ukrainian National Bar Association.

Education: Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Institute of International Relations (1985).

Career:

  • Sergii Koziakov & Partners – Of Counsel (2015 – present).
  • PNBK Ltd. – Senior partner (2005 – present).
  • First National Business Company Ltd. – Senior partner (1992 – 2005).
  • Consultant of Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade of Ukraine (1994 – 1999).
  • Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations – Head of foreign economic policy department (1991-1992).
  • Ministry of foreign affairs – third secretary (1985 – 1988).
  • Ministry of foreign affairs – second secretary (1988 – 1991).
  • Co-developer of the Antidumping Code of Ukraine.
  • Co-author of the monograph «Recent Ukrainian legislation on regulation of problems of dumping, subsidiary and massed import». Kyiv 1999.
  • Co-developer of decrees of the President of Ukraine, resolutions of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on implementation of international commercial law rules into Ukrainian legislation.
  • Consultant of USAID – Ukraine WTO Accession project on problems of adjustment of Ukrainian legislation in sphere of phytosanitary measures in accordance with WTO requirements in 2003.
  • Consultant of USAID – Ukraine WTO Accession project on problems of adjustment of Ukrainian legislation in sphere of international economic relations in accordance with WTO requirements in 2004.
  • Consultant of Project «Dutch grant № TF 050270», contract №DG/IC/3/1/-1 dated March 12 2004.
  • Consultant of Project of support of the Ukraine’s Trade Policy (UTPP/DFID), Component 3 «Support of the Verkhovna Rada» on 2005 -2006.
  • Co-developer of Decree of the President of Ukraine «On approval of the Statute of State Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine», resolutions of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On approval of the Statute of the National Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine”; “On approval of the Procedure of consideration, approval and implementation of projects intended for anthropogenic emission reduction or increase of greenhouse gases absorption according to the Kyoto protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change”; “On approval of the Procedure of consideration, approval and implementation of projects of green investments during terms of obligations of parties of the Kyoto protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change”; “About the implementation of international obligations of Ukraine under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol”; “About the formation and maintenance of national electronic register of anthropogenic emissions and removals of greenhouse gases”; “On approval of the Procedure of functioning of the national system for estimating anthropogenic emissions and removals of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer”.
  • Co-developer of Memorandum of understanding between the Minister of environment of Spain and the Minister of environmental protection of Ukraine on article 6 and article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol related activities.
  • Co-developer of Memorandum of Understanding in relation to the Agreement for the Sale of Assigned Amount Units dated 18 March 2009 between the National Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization.
  • Co-developer of the draft law “On the regulation of energy efficiency”.
  • Member of the delegation of Ukraine at the fourteenth meeting of the Enforcement Branch of the Compliance Committee.
  • Member of the delegation of Ukraine at the Durban Climate Change Conference – November/December 2011 (COP17/CMP7).
  • Manager of the project in the component “Consulting  services  on  legal  and  regulatory issues on emissions trading” of the UNDP Project “Capacity  Building  for Low carbon  Growth  in Ukraine”, contract 2012/26 of October 09. 2012.
  • Consultant (ICPN/2013/60): Consultant on legal issues on data needs of the UNDP Project “Capacity Building for Low carbon Growth in Ukraine”, contract IC/2013/080 of August 05 2013.
  • Consultant (TCS 33506) Consultant of the project “Preparedness for Emissions Trading in the EBRD Region (“PETER“) Phase II, «Legal analysis of the current system of taxation of greenhouse gas emissions in Ukraine and suggestions for its modification during the transition to emissions trading system as part of the EBRD’s “Preparedness for Emissions Trading in the EBRD Region (“PETER“)» contracts № 2013-PO-1 of October 10 2013, №2014-РО-2 of 03 July 2014, №2014-РО-3 of 10 September 2014.
  • National expert Component 5 “Judicial independence” EU Project to support Justice Sector Reforms in Ukraine from March 26 2015.
  • Expert of USAID FAIR Justice Project “Promote public outreach and communications on vetting processes and procedures”.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English.