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Oleh Beketov was promoted to counsel at AstapovLawyers, a Kyiv-based law firm.

He previously worked as a senior associate and headed the international litigation department for the firm.

Beketov has over nine years of work experience in Central and Eastern Europe in international commercial arbitration and litigation, commercial and civil litigation, trade law, corporate and commercial law and foreign investments.

Before joining AstapovLawyers, Beketov practiced international law at Magisters, Alston & Bird LLP, Pavlenko and Statsenko & Osinchuk.

He also worked as assistant to the chair of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy where he gained rich practical experience in the harmonization of Ukrainian legislation with European Union legislation.

Beketov is a graduate of Lviv National University’s law school and holds a master’s degree in international law from American University, Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.