Vasily Babariko Email & Phone Number

Riga, LV

Riga, Latvia

• Selected Achievements:
• Experience with different B2C and B2B iGaming licenses: IOM GSC (Isle of Man); MGA (Malta); ONJN (Romania); Curacao; HGC (Greece); AGCO (Ontario); BGC (Belgium); others; including technical requirements (technical.
• Development of cross-functional contract management process and introduction of tracking system for legal work to enhance productivity and controls
• Complex corporate and contractual structuring projects aimed at business, financial and tax efficiency while corresponding to specific regulatory issues
• International trademark protection Competences:
• Resolving wide range of general legal matters: corporate, commercial, M&A, real estate, intellectual property, data protection, AML Resolving specific iGaming legal matters (legal and regulatory compliance, technology.

Malta

Riga, Latvia

• Selected Achievements:
• Participation/leadership in some remarkable projects, including: - Due diligence of a Latvian bank; - Support in relocation/migration issues for several IT companies; - Legal support in refinancing; - Development of.
• Team leadership: development of team-work approach;
• Planning and budgeting, staff planning;
• Attraction and retention of clients, managing projects internally (in terms of staffing, splitting tasks, budgeting of projects) and externally (negotiations with clients);
• Advising local and foreign clients on legal matters: corporate, commercial, financial markets, investments, M&A, real estate, intellectual property;

Belarus

• Selected Achievements:
• Team leader in 50+ various international projects, incl.: - 20+ projects in IT sector including structuring and support in M&A transactions; - Support of IT companies in Belarus (including international IT companies.
• EY was ranked and recommended by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 in Corporate, commercial and M&ACompetences:
• international cross-functional team leadership;
• managing day-to-day activity of the law firm;
• team leadership: formation and development of local legal team;

Minsk, Belarus

• Selected Achievements:
• EY was recognized by the Belarusian Ministry of Justice as the best law firm in 2013
• EY was ranked and recommended by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 in Corporate, commercial and M&A
• Advising Word Bank and National Agency of Investment and Privatization on privatization matters in Belarus (2015-2019)Competences:
• development of legal practice of EY in Belarus: attraction and retention of clients, managing projects internally (in terms of staffing, splitting tasks, budgeting of projects) and externally (negotiations with clients);
• advising local and foreign clients on tax and legal matters: corporate, commercial, international trade and customs, investments, M&A, real estate, intellectual property, civil litigation, taxation;

Belarus

• Selected Achievements:
• Development of legal framework in terms of Belarusian currency legislation for group treasury agreement for a Belarusian subsidiary of multinational company
• Participation in Pilot privatization project under World Bank assignment Competences:
• advising clients on Belarusian legal matters: corporate, commercial, international trade and customs, investments, M&A, real estate, intellectual property, labor and immigration,
• marketing activity: seminars, presentations, alerts, press-mentions, articles in law magazines, etc

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Selected Achievements:
• 6-months secondment in EY Law Russia – working as senior lawyers in Russia with Russian clients.
• Participation in large multijurisdictional project related to domiciliation of Cyprus holding to Switzerland (working in team of more than 20 professionals from different jurisdictions)
• Handling engagements with unique combination of law and practice (e.g. property protection via creation of non-profit organizations)
• Development of business processes related to legal workflow in one of the largest automobile distributors in Russia

Belarus

• Selected Achievements:
• Implementation of new legal structure of working with clients – via agency agreement
• Introduction of improvement suggestion on documents for export sales to Russia – overall cost savings appr. USD 100k per year for the Group Competences:
• full in-house legal support of two companies of the group: a production plant and sales company
• dealing with following legal matters: legal compliance, claims and litigations, commercial and contract law (drafting, review), corporate law, intellectual property (license agreements, trademark registration).

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Master Of Laws - Llm, Law