Maksym Kupenko

Responsibilities:

• Due diligence and compliance issues
• Internal fraud and corruption investigations
• Litigation and claims work regarding debtors of the large international, medium, and small business segments
• Legal research
• Editing business contracts
• Provision of conclusions on general legal issues of the bank's activities
• Dealing with private bailiffs regarding court judgment execution; selling seized industrial equipment and facilities, real estate, agricultural vehicles, etc.

Key Achievements:

• Enhanced the whistleblowing policy and whistleblower protection (in cooperation with Compliance Department)

• Setting up efficient cooperation between departments in internal fraud and bribery investigation (Security Department and Legal Department & Compliance Department), which twice shortened the time of the investigation process

• 15 % of litigation costs were saved since 2022 due to my pioneering in the implementation of an electronic court system

• Increased the rate of debt recovery from 40% to 70% within 3 years as a result of the joint afford of the litigation team

Responsibilities:

• Setting up and managing litigation activities of the company (planning litigation, staff management)
• Customer due diligence
• Due diligence of the bank’s distressed mortgage credit portfolio before assignment and investing the client’s and/or company’s own money

Key Achievements:

· The anti-money laundering system was enhanced

· 90 % of distressed loans were settled in the first 3 months after the start of legal action

· 75% of clients made several rounds of investments in the assignment of distressed bank’s credit portfolio due to the high efficiency of the company’s legal work

Responsibilities:

• Management of the litigation unit of the bank in the liquidation process
• Preparing the bank’s assets for selling on electronic auctions
• Internal fraud, corruption, and bribe investigations

Key Achievements:

· The bank got ownership rights to 80 land plots as a result of the foreclosure

· 2 mortgaged airliners were sold in short order via an e-auction and the bank got a high return

Responsibilities:

• lawsuits drafting and representation of the bank in court
• control of the execution of court decisions through the state bailiff service

Key Achievement:

· Successful countermeasures against the debtor's fraudulent attempt to withdraw 12 gas stations from the pledge

Responsibilities:

• Representation of the bank's interests in debtors' bankruptcy procedures
• Participation in meetings of creditors and committees
• Control over the sale of debtors' property (real estate, industrial premises, vehicles, industrial equipment) on electronic auctions

Key Achievement:

· Successful legal defense of the bank's interests in a court as a manager of a fund for financing the construction of residential real estate

Responsibilities:

• Customer due diligence
• Legal contract drafting
• Representation of the bank's interests in legal relations with law enforcement agencies (police, prosecutor's office) and authorities and with market regulators (National Bank of Ukraine, Securities Сommission)