Oleh Zherobkin
Specializes in defending business owners, top management and companies in criminal proceedings, tax and antitrust disputes, as well as in asset protection and crisis support for business.
Profile
Oleh Zherobkin specializes in defending business — its owners and top managers — in situations of criminal, tax and regulatory pressure.
His work focuses on cases where criminal proceedings or the actions of state bodies create risk for assets, operations, and the reputation of the owner or management team. He supports clients during searches, questioning, notices of suspicion, the selection of preventive measures and other procedural actions.
His key approach is not merely to react to a crisis, but to build a system of preventive business protection. This includes assessing criminal-law risks, preparing owners and management for interaction with law-enforcement bodies, protecting assets, building an evidentiary position and preventing the company's work from being blocked.
Oleh has extensive experience closing criminal proceedings at the pre-trial stage, lifting asset seizures and returning assets to their owners. In his work he combines procedural defense with an understanding of the business consequences of criminal proceedings — the risks to the owner, top management, assets, operations and the company's reputation.
He regularly speaks at the White-Collar Crime Forum organized by "Yurydychna Praktyka", presenting on criminal-law risks for business, tax offences, illicit enrichment and special confiscation. He publishes expert materials in legal and business media, including on the relationship between business and the state, the criminal-law consequences of tax disputes, the protection of property rights and applications to the ECtHR.
Selected work
Defense in high-profile criminal proceedings
Defended a member of the Ukrainian parliament in criminal proceedings heard by the High Anti-Corruption Court concerning charges of illicit enrichment. The work included building the defense strategy, analysing the evidence, preparing procedural positions and supporting the client throughout the trial.
Defense in complex criminal proceedings with a foreign element
Represented a foreign businessman in criminal proceedings investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. The support included assessing the risks to the client, preparing the legal position and coordinating the defense strategy under heightened attention from law-enforcement bodies.
Representation in tax disputes
Has experience representing industrial, trading and other companies in tax disputes with the controlling authorities. The work aimed not only to challenge unfounded financial claims, but also to minimize the attendant risks for owners, top management and the operations of the business — particularly where a tax dispute could turn into criminal-law pressure.
Disputes with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
Represented companies in disputes with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine over compliance with economic-competition law. The work included analysing the AMCU's conclusions and decisions, preparing the evidentiary position, shaping the defense strategy and representing business in litigation to overturn the regulator's decisions.
Representing business before the ECtHR on property rights
Took part in representing a leading Ukrainian hydro-power generating company before the European Court of Human Rights. The project concerned the protection of property rights, the company's property interests and compensation for damage caused to Ukrainian business by the war.