Sergiy Beketov
Counsel
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Sergiy Beketov joined VBB in 2011. He specialises in international trade law, with a particular focus on trade defence instruments such as anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard.

His work encompasses advising multinational clients in protecting and improving their access to export markets in the face of trade defence investigations against them in third countries as well as bolstering their competitiveness in their domestic markets in the face of unfair trade practices such as dumped or subsidized imports from third countries.

Sergiy also frequently advises clients on various matters of trade regulations, market access and customs law issues as well as on various aspects of international commercial arbitration.

His focus covers a wide spectrum of industries, including steel, wood, chemicals, various raw materials, electronics, automotive and agriculture.

Prior to joining VBB, Sergiy worked in Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice in the special unit representing and defending the state before the international arbitration institutions (state-investor arbitration proceedings). He also interned with the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and the Rules Division.

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Representative matters

  1. Acting for POSCO and its subsidiaries in two parallel anti-circumvention investigations of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on imports of cold-rolled stainless steel and successfully securing full exemptions for both subsidiaries of the company in Turkey and Vietnam.
  2. Advising large European producers and their associations in the wood processing industries (plywood, flooring) in relation anti-dumping and anti-circumvention proceedings in the EU.
  3. Advising large European producers and their associations in the telecommunication, steel industries in relation to anti-dumping proceedings in the EU.

Professional

  1. Admitted to Brussels Bar, 2015
  2. Admitted to Ukraine Bar, 2011

Academic

  1. Master of Laws, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2005
  2. Master of Laws, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands, 2009
  3. Master in Law and Economics, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2010

Publications

  1. Van Bael & Bellis: EU Anti-Dumping and Other Trade Defence Instruments, Kluwer 6th edition (2019): contributing author
  2. Bridging the Abyss? Lessons from Global and Regional Integration of Ukraine, Journal of World Trade (2012): contributing author
  3. Introduction to the WTO Law, Inyure (2011): contributing author