I try to simplify the law and increase the level of legal culture and trust in lawyers

Igor Mlechko

CEO, Attorney

Expert in corporate security and risk compliance
18 years of legal experience both in the private sector and in public service (tax authorities).
At the beginning of his professional life, he held various positions in tax authorities and banks.
In the public sector, Ihor participated in the development of modern methods of combating schemes of aggressive tax optimization (as a result, the category of disputes about “void contracts” was created, which was later transformed into the category “non-commodity contracts”).
During his legal practice in the banking sector, Ihor designed and implemented a scheme for acquiring ownership of mortgaged property while the title documents were destroyed (as a result, 103 problematic land plots were registered with the bank).
In private practice, Ihor has achieved notable success, providing effective support in tax disputes with a total value of approximately 1 billion UAH
Former lecturer at the Universum College of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.

Experience

As part of the ASA Group team, he has played a pivotal role in developing legal strategies for precedent-setting court cases in various key categories.

Defended an IT company in a dispute based on the results of a tender for MNP service: upheld the client’s right as an exclusive developer of mobile number portability service

Won the first Insta-court in Ukraine, forcing a blogger to pay a fine for breach of contract

Proved in court the possibility of applying netting in swap lending in the context of the introduction of a temporary administration to the bank, creating a court precedent during the bank collapse period in 2014-2016

Defeated the claim of the prosecutor’s office in recognizing a public procurement contract as invalid (due to the combination of different items in one procurement)

Protected reputation of Leeloo.ai, stopping defamation (dissemination of false information) on YouTube through the court,