Mikhail Ivanenko

**About the firm** Conventa Legal was established in 2018 by a group of lawyers who wanted to create a new type of a law firm that would focus exclusively on the companies shaping the digital economy and the Internet. We understand and use technology in our main practice areas such as dispute resolution, banking and finance, corporate and digital law. Conventa Legal has unique expertise in the fields of international arbitration, blockchain regulation and financial transactions. We have wealth of experience in supporting international expansion of blockchain projects in jurisdictions such as the UK, Switzerland and Singapore. Our lawyers are qualified in England and Wales, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Ukraine.

**Managing Partner** Mikhail Ivanenko is a founder and a managing partner of Conventa Legal, and leads a team of eight brilliant lawyers. Mikhail has extensive experience of representing clients in courts of the BVI, Cyprus, England and Wales, US and Ukraine, as well as supporting transactions in the energy sector with investors from Germany, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Ukraine. Mikhail is recommended by *“Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients”* for corporate, tax and energy disputes. Before founding Conventa Legal, Mikhail was a counsel at Eterna law and prior to that worked at firms in Kiev and Berlin. Mikhail holds LLB and LLM in Jurisprudence from Kiev University of Law, Masters degree in International Energy from Sciences Po (Paris) and a postgraduate diploma in civil law from Koretsky Institute of State and Law.

**Recruitment** We are actively expanding our practice, and we are currently recruiting bright associates into our Digital Law group. If you are interested in working at Conventa Legal, please send to us a short email about yourself at hello@conventa.legal and we will get back to you, if we see that we would be a good match.