Managing Partner,
Attorney at Law,
Olsten Partners Law Company

Olesia Romanenko is an expert in legal strategy and legal creativity. A lawyer with 20 years of experience in corporate, land, investment and tax law, she is the founder and managing partner of Olsten Partners Law Company, recognised as one of the strongest law firms in Ukraine in corporate and M&A (Ukrainian Law Firms 2024).

Her professional career began in the 2000s with legal practice for local businesses and eventually evolved into in-depth expertise in supporting foreign investors, transforming business models and protecting assets in crisis.

Specialisation and key competencies:

• M&A – from due diligence to deal structuring and negotiation support
• Attracting investments – development of investment models, investor protection, preparation for due diligence
• Corporate law – partnership risk management, business divorce, corporate structuring
• Land law and real estate – audit, use models, support of development projects
• Tax planning – optimisation of business structures, appealing against tax decisions
• Legal check-up – risk analytics and consulting “before the problem arises”

Legal partnership strategy

Olesia is one of those lawyers who builds her work with clients on a deep business understanding, not just knowledge of the law. She actively promotes the philosophy of legal creativity, when instead of template solutions, she offers personalised scenarios that allow to preserve assets, unlock opportunities and scale safely.

Leadership and social role

• founder of the investment community INVESTORIA
• Lecturer at MBA programmes and courses on investment and land law
• speaker at many conferences and regular speaker at business clubs Board, Holders, Confederation of Builders of Ukraine, European business Association
• The writer is the author of the book “Partnership in Business”, which covers the legal and psychological aspects of business partnerships
• Author of unique training courses for business protection
• Founder of charity projects Ukraine Support Foundation, Ukrainian Foundation for Innovation and Technology, Teenagers Club

Cases she is proud of

• Defended the client in an intellectual property dispute between the client and TESLA Inc. regarding the use of the TESLA ENERGO trademark in the construction of solar power plants.
• Provided legal support for the launch of the Polish project GLOBAL24 in the Ukrainian market. Thanks to the legal strategy and creativity, as well as modelling the legal structure, the company managed to obtain a permit for currency exchange operations under restrictions during martial law.
• In a land dispute in which all lawyers predicted the impossibility of solving the client’s problem, she developed a defence strategy and won the case in court. As a result, after 4 years of efforts, the client received the result – the right of ownership of a land plot in the Pechersk district of Kyiv.