About
As the founder of Stelmakh & Associates, Katsiaryna Stelmakh has earned a robust popularity as an immigration lawyer. She has successfully represented corporations and people in commercial enterprise and circle of relatives immigration matters in addition to deportation defence. She also advises employers on I-nine compliance and employee international relocation.
Prior to founding Stelmakh Associates, Ms. Stelmakh controlled business immigration practice of an global law workplace with offices in Philadelphia, Moscow, Russia, and Kiev, Ukraine. While with the organization, she recommended one of the international s largest ferro-alloy and metal producers on all global enterprise personnel relocation matters and journey concerns. She additionally litigated global highbrow assets and contractual enterprise disputes and advised company clients on international business transactions. Among other subjects, she represented certainly one of the largest Ukrainian enterprise groups within the London Court of International Arbitration in a more than $100 million contractual dispute concerning shareholdings in Ukrainian electricity companies.
Ms. Stelmakh additionally worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC, in which she drafted loan and provide agreements with Russia and different CIS international locations -- which includes an $eighty million loan for the Russian Hydromet Modernization Project. In addition, whilst with the World Bank, she did research and drafting on subjects of worldwide armed war and refugee law and analyzed cases of the International Criminal Court, South-African Truth & Reconciliation Commission International Criminal Tribunals for the previous Yugoslavia and Rwanda and other courts.
Inspired by means of her spirit of volunteerism and her very own private revel in as an immigrant in the US who began with a scholar visa, Ms. Stelmakh released her immigration law career as a volunteer for the Community Refugee and Immigration Services in Ohio in which she suggested Somali refugees on acquiring everlasting residency and naturalization in the US.
Ms. Stelmakh obtained her J.D. and M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures levels from The Ohio State University. While in a nationally ranked top-tier The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Ms. Stelmakh clerked in the litigation department of a prominent Ohio corporation Bailey Cavalieri LLC.
In her local Belarus, Ms. Stelmakh obtained Masters in International Law degree summa cum laude from the Belarusian State University. She additionally earned a Certificate in Transnational Law from the University of Geneva - Duke Law School in Switzerland. While in Switzerland, Ms. Stelmakh visited and obtained lectures at the United Nations, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross, and other worldwide organizations. Her international law publications had been taught by using the previous Yugoslavia and Rwanda War Crimes Tribunals Chief Prosecutor, Richard Goldstone.
Ms. Stelmakh is certified in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is permitted to exercise immigration law in any US state. She is currently a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is energetic in the American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR) and an global humanitarian organisation Children International. Ms. Stelmakh is fluent in Russian, Belarusian and English and has a running information of German and Ukrainian.
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Languages
- Belarusian: Spoken, Written
- German: Written
- Russian: Written
- Ukrainian: Spoken, Written
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Experience
- Owner
Stelmakh & Associates (http://www.stelmakhlaw.com)
2008
Educations
Graduation year: 2002
Graduation year: 2003
Graduation year: 1997
