Hennadiy Voytsytskyi

Hennadiy Voytsitskyi

Partner
Baker McKenzie Ukraine B.V.

Biography

Hennadiy Voytsitskyi is a co-managing partner of Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office and Head of the Kyiv office Tax Practice Group.

He has more than 30 years of experience in Ukrainian and international tax law. Mr. Voytsitskyi is recognised as a “Highly Regarded” lawyer in Indirect Tax and Tax Controversy by ITR World Tax 2027 and is ranked in the Hall of Fame for Tax by The Legal 500 2026.

Hennadiy advises multinational and domestic clients on a wide range of tax matters, including international tax planning and structuring, cross-border inbound and outbound investments, tax controversy and litigation, and private wealth matters.

Practice Focus

Mr. Voytsitskyi focuses his practice on advising multinational and domestic clients on complex Ukrainian and international tax matters, including international tax planning and structuring, cross-border inbound and outbound investments, tax controversy and litigation, and private wealth matters.

He has extensive experience advising clients on strategies for responding to tax audits, investigations and enquiries; negotiating with tax authorities; and challenging decisions and other actions of tax and law enforcement authorities. He also represents clients in disputes and litigation involving tax authorities and other law enforcement agencies.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Representing a global manufacturing and technology company in litigation with Ukrainian tax authorities related to the assessment the back taxes.
  • Successfully representing client in customs litigation in relation to aircraft components, confiscated upon importation.
  • Successfully representing a medical research company in the tax dispute resolution and the tax litigation process against the Ukrainian tax authorities (multimillion CIT and VAT assessment).
  • Successfully representing a not-for-profit organization in a dispute with the Ukrainian tax authorities regarding a tax assessment following the results of the tax audit.
  • Successfully representing a non-commercial representative office of an international charitable organization in a dispute with the Ukrainian tax authorities regarding the office’s non-commercial status; providing legal and tax support during the tax audit.
  • Representing the executive officers of a large international commercial bank before the Tax Police in the course of the investigation of a tax evasion criminal case.
  • Advising a commercial representative office of the foreign trading company in a dispute with the Ukrainian tax authorities regarding back taxes assessed by the tax authorities in connection with (i) the allocation of home office expenses to the Ukrainian representative office, and (ii) financing of the Ukrainian representative office.
  • Advising a real estate services firm in a tax dispute in the course of the investigation of tax evasion criminal case.
  • Providing legal and tax support to a fiber optic company during a tax audit and dispute with Ukrainian tax authorities.
  • Representing the Ukrainian subsidiary of a US producer of air engines in tax litigation against the State Tax Inspection of Ukraine.

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Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Ukrainian Bar Association

Admissions

  • Ukraine (1996)

Education

  • Harvard Law School (2004)
  • Institute of International Relations (1996)

Languages

  • English
  • Ukrainian
  • Polish
  • Russian