ODESA OFFICE
16a Valeriia Samofalova St.,
Office 7, Odesa, Ukraine

KYIV OFFICE
41b Mykhaila Boichuka St.,
Kyiv, Ukraine

TEL.   +380 73 377 33 71
E-MAIL   bdmitrii24@gmail.com
INSTAGRAM  @advokat_bakulin · Bakulin Law

Dmytro Bakulin is a Partner at KAIZEN Law Firm and an Odesa-based trial attorney, named Best Defence Attorney of the Year 2023. His practice centres on criminal defence and extends to tax, administrative, civil and commercial litigation. He builds cases on defects in the opponent’s own documents and on Supreme Court and ECtHR case law. Since the full-scale invasion, a significant part of his work concerns servicemen and their families.

Expertise

• Criminal defence, pre-trial and at trial
• Corruption-related offences
• Military law and defence of servicemen
• Lifting property seizures
• Tax disputes and currency control
• Administrative offences
• Urban planning and building permits
• Healthcare and medicines regulation
• Family disputes
• Commercial contracts and litigation

Selected matters

CRIMINAL
Defence of a serviceman suspected of illegal enrichment in a State Bureau of Investigation case; trial defence on influence-peddling and murder charges; lifting property seizures for owners and third parties.

MILITARY LAW
Defence of servicemen in drink-driving cases under the military intoxication-testing procedure; mobilisation deferments for carers of a spouse with a disability.

TAX
A series of challenges to tax assessments based on HMRC data on OnlyFans income; challenging a UAH 1.2 million currency-control penalty imposed on an Odesa company.

PUBLIC LAW
Acting for an NGO against building permits for a residential complex in Odesa; defending a dental clinic and a medicines distributor before regulators.

COMMERCIAL
Defending entrepreneurs against unjust-enrichment claims in three parallel commercial cases; acting for a bakery-chain franchisor; cross-border debt recovery.

Recognition and public activity

• Best Defence Attorney of the Year 2023 — award of the Odesa Regional Bar Council.
• KAIZEN Law Firm ranked 49th in Yurydychna Praktyka’s TOP-50 Leading Law Firms of Ukraine 2026.
• Speaker at the XI International Business Protection Forum (Kyiv, September 2026).
• Interview in Yurydychna Gazeta on private clients’ demand for advocacy (May 2026).
• Founder of NEXT LEVEL, a programme for practising advocates; supervisor of advocate traineeships.