New Head of Tax Litigation at Magisters joins from KPMG
Mr. Golik has over 10 years of experience and joins Magisters from leading international consultancy KPMG, where he was Director of Tax in Russia/CIS. He previously spent three years at Russian law firm Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners as Head of Tax and Consulting.
Vyacheslav Golik specializes in tax, including fiscal capacity assessment and tax risk, tax audit assistance, corporate tax planning as well as general tax advisory. He has wide experience in tax disputes and litigation successfully representing clients in courts. Mr. Golik’s clients include Gazprom, NLMK, Surgutneftegaz, Vimpelcom, Shell, Rosneft, TNK BP, Mosenergo, Orenburgenergo etc.
Vyacheslav is a graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance where he also obtained a postgraduate qualification at the Finance Credit and International Economics faculty.
“We are delighted to welcome such a high-profile tax expert to our team. Over the past three months we have significantly bolstered the Moscow office with outstanding specialists. This appointment along with the official establishment of Tax Litigation practice in Moscow is another great addition to the firm’s service offerings that now cover all the key practice areas. With such reinforcements we are perfectly equipped to move forward in order to provide our clients with an advanced range of premium quality legal advice”, comments Dmitry Dyakin, Managing Partner at Magisters’ Moscow office.
Vyacheslav Golik adds: “I am happy to become a part of this ambitious and highly reputable team. I do feel excited about this new challenging period of my career and I am going to contribute to the firm’s success and its further dynamic development as much as possible”.
Mr. Golik is among three new partners to join Magisters in Moscow over the past three months. Clemens Schlotter joined the firm to lead the newly-established German Desk in November and Russia’s Top PPP lawyer Kirill Ratnikov moved to Magisters as Head of Infrastructure/PPP and M&A and Corporate practices in December 2009. [/private]