Olyana Gordiyenko is a partner at Baker & McKenzie's Kyiv office. She has more than 13 years of experience advising local Ukrainian and international clients on M&A transactions, including English law governed deals. A large part of her work is in relation to cross-border/multi-country and private equity transactions. Olyana also specializes in joint ventures and reorganizations and provides sound counsel to blue chip Ukrainian companies on general corporate matters. In recent years Ms. Gordiyenko has been focusing on private equity, FMCG, healthcare and oil & gas sectors. In addition to M&A deals in oil & gas industry, Olyana has developed an in-depth knowledge of regulatory, technical and practical issues pertaining to all stages of oil & gas exploration and production and is now the head of Oil & Gas Practice Group in the Kyiv office.