INTEGRITES significantly strengthens and expands its International Trade and Antitrust & Competition Practices, and therefore is pleased to announce the joining of Sergey Lakhno to the team on a position of a Counsel of International Trade Practice.
Having more than 15 years of experience in the field of trade law, the application of trade remedy measures and foreign trade regulations issues, Sergey Lakhno specializes in international trade, antitrust and competition law.
Sergey participated in trade remedy investigations against Ukrainian products in the EU, Canadian, the US, Brazilian, the Eurasian Economic Union markets, as well as in investigations to protect the domestic market of Ukraine from unfair import.
In INTEGRITES, Sergey mainly focuses on trade investigations to protect the interests of domestic and foreign clients when importing products to Ukraine, as well as protection of clients’ interests in foreign markets when conducting trade investigations against products originating from Ukraine (anti-dumping, safeguard, countervailing investigations). Additionally, Sergey will be involved in assessing the compliance of trade barriers faced by Ukrainian exporters in foreign markets to WTO rules and the obligations of the country that implements them, as well as a range of other issues related to the company’s foreign trade activities.
Prior to joining INTEGRITES, Sergey worked in the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine as a Director of department for competition policy. He was responsible for the use of economic analysis tools in investigations of violations of the legislation on the economic competition protection, the formation of an effective system for control and monitoring of the state aid provision to business entities, as well as the development of methodological documents for the Law Enforcement Practice of the Committee.
