Dmitri
Zikratski
lawyer, business adviser
+375 29 658-74-78
zikratski_dzmitry
dmitri@zikratski.by
Lawyer, business adviser with more than 15 years of experience.
Education: Master of Laws, Bachelor of Economics (Belarusian State Economic University).
Recognition: listed among leading Belarusian lawyers in the Legal 500.
Education: Master of Laws, Bachelor of Economics (Belarusian State Economic University).
Recognition: listed among leading Belarusian lawyers in the Legal 500.
Experience
Deputy Manager of the legal department of a major holding company, deputy CEO, CEO of an IT company.
More than 8 years in legal consulting, inter alia, as the director and a partner of the Belarusian office of an international law firm.
More than 8 years in legal consulting, inter alia, as the director and a partner of the Belarusian office of an international law firm.
Areas of Practice
- Integrated legal consulting, business process optimization
- Corporate law, protection of the interests of business owners and top managers, establishing and restructuring of holdings and groups of companies
- Investment practice, tax optimization
- Protection of IP rights
- Consultations on various business issues
Аuthor of applied law articles in Yurist ("The Lawyer"), Nalogoviy Viestnik ("The Tax Newsletter"), Torgovoe i promyshlenoe pravo («Industrial and Trade Law"), De Jure magazines; Belorusy i Rynok ("Belarusians and the Market"), Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta
("The Economic Gazette"), Respublika ("The Republic") newspapers, et al.
Speaker in more than 50 investment and business fora, conferences, seminars and workshops on doing business, investment opportunities, protecting the interests of managers and resolving disputes among shareholders.
Speaker in more than 50 investment and business fora, conferences, seminars and workshops on doing business, investment opportunities, protecting the interests of managers and resolving disputes among shareholders.
Relevant Experience
- Due diligence of an investment project on construction of a peat processing plant
- Legal support of projects on a construction of logistics centers in Minsk and Brest regions
- Development and follow-up of investment agreements on construction of a plant in Mogilev and car center in an auto center in Minsk district; obtaining clearances from public authorities
- Follow-up of a transaction on property acquisition and renovation by a non-resident including development of an acquisition plan (several options) based on taxation aspects and economic risks and obtaining property renovation permits
- Legal support on a transaction between non-residents on acquisition of a Belarusian unitary enterprise (including the issues of the enterprise registration of as an asset package and transactions with it.)
- IP due diligence of an IT company
- legal support of a bank-to-bank loan collection from a Belarusian bank (including real property mortgage and liquidation of the bank.)
- Participation in a project on introduction of a paid parking system in Minsk
- Development of a plan of drawing funds from a Belarusian plant under mixed contracts (debt transfer, surety agreements) in favor of a non-resident (based on a risk assessment and the requirement to acquire permits from the Belarus National Bank), drafting of a variety of documents
- Participation in an EBRD loan provision project
- Consultations for UNDP on to correspondence of the regulations of the European Economic Area and the Customs Union (Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan) to the WTO norms