BIOGRAPHIES

Bate C. Toms

Born Virginia, U.S.A., September 22, 1949; Legal education: Yale Law School (J.D., 1975); Magdalene College, Cambridge University (Law Tripos I; 1972 - 1973); General education: Washington and Lee University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1971)(Phi Beta Kappa); Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1969-1970) (Soviet Studies); Yale University (M.S., 1977); admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1975, the District of Columbia Bar in 1977, and as an advocate in France in 1992. Editor: Yale Law Journal, 1975-1976; Journal of International Banking Law, 1986-; Oil and Gas Law and Taxation Review, 1984-; Author: "Ukrainian Real Estate Law", Real Estate Review 2002; “Privatisation in Ukraine”, Euromoney Privatisation & Public Private Partnership Review (2002); "Ukrainian Oil and Gas Licensing", 13(2) Oil and Gas Law and Tax Rev., 1995; "Ukrainian Law on Banking", Journal of International Banking Law, June 1992; "Ukrainian Special Economic Zones", CCH Doing Business in Europe 1992; Ukrainian Tax Law, Interforum Conference on Doing Business in Ukraine (November 1992), "Compensating Shareholders Frozen Out in Two-Step Mergers", 78 Columbia Law Review 549, 1978; "Offshore Share Offerings," 1 Journal of International Banking Law 36, 1986; Editor, B O T and Other Non-Recourse Projects - Proceedings of the Second International Construction Projects Conference (1989); co-author, Doing Business with Ukraine (ICC 2002-second edition); Vice-Chairman - British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.

Taras Dumych

Education: London Guildhall University Department of Law (LL.M. in International and Comparative Business Law, with Merit, 2002); Lviv State University Law School (LL.B., 1999). Areas of specialization: real estate and construction, energy and natural resources, corporate and M&A.