Vitaliy specializes in bankruptcy, business restructuring, finance, anti-raid, electoral law and judicial practice. He provides consulting support to natural persons and legal entitites, including clients of Sergii Koziakov & Partners, in particular, in the industrial, commercial, agricultural, banking sectors.

As a recognized expert on the above issues, Vitaliy is regularly invited as a speaker and participant in many national legal and agricultural forums and international events such as the VIII Judicial Forum (Council of Europe), Agricultural Policy Forum “Land Reform. Decentralization “, 10th Anniversary Forum” Corruption and Corporate Fraud “, English Law Day, events of the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine, round tables of the Supreme Court, as well as events with foreign partners to reform the judiciary (EU Project “Pravo-Justice”, American Law ABA (Washington DC), etc. He is a member of the organizing committee of the UBA legal forum, a member of the jury of the LIGA ZAKON AWARDS legal competition.

Vitaliy Cherepaha is an accredited teacher of legal disciplines, including bankruptcy, state registration and anti-raid in the National Bar Association of Ukraine, Advanced Training Courses of the NAAU Higher School of Advocacy, the Coordinating Council of Young Lawyers at the Ministry of Justice and Legal High School.

Vitaliy Cherepaha was a member of the working groups of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and co-authored legislation in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on improving legal regulation in the field of state registration, land law and antiraid.

EXPERIENCE

Legal consulting for leaders of financial and agricultural industries (national and foreign):

UKRPOSHTA (DIRECTORATE-GENERAL)
– Deputy Director for Branches (about 13 thousand post offices, about 100 thousand employees);
– Legal Adviser (winning case law and no criminal proceedings against officials of a state-owned enterprise, successful corporatization). He was awarded a departmental award.

SECRETARIAT OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE V. Yushchenko
– Head of the Regional Reception of the President of Ukraine.

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY OF UKRAINE
– Head of Vinnytsia Regional Bankruptcy Department;
– Chief Specialist (central office).

PUBLIC ACTIVITY

HEAD OF THE OFFICE OF THE MDO VRU “ANTI-RAID COALITION”;
LEGAL ADVISER OF USAID COMMERCIAL LAW CENTER (on a voluntary basis at the invitation of Supreme Court President V. Danishevska);
PRESIDENT OF THE NGO “REGISTRATION CHAMBER OF UKRAINE”;
from 03.02.2015 – Deputy Chairman of the Public Council at the Ukrgosregister;
from 07.10.2015 – Member of the Management Board, Acting Chairman of the Public Council at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Chairman of the Committee on State Registration, Notary and Archival Affairs;
from 2017 to 2019 – Chairman of the Committee on Anti-Corruption Legislation, Financial Monitoring and Anti-Raiding of the Public Council at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Education

Vitaliy received his second higher legal education at Ternopil National Economic University and a diploma from Khmelnytsky National University with a degree in Management of Organizations with honors, winner of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiads.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English