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Sviatlana StatkevichSS

Sviatlana Statkevich

Trade Operations, HazMat& Compliance Expert EU/CIS

€399/day
Bratislava, SK
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Sviatlana

I am an independent B2B Corporate Compliance Specialist and Trade Operations Auditor with 26 years of international law experience (Master’s Degree in International Law). Operating through my EU-registered Slovak sole proprietorship, I help trading, industrial, and logistics companies protect their margins and streamline operations across complex global supply chains.

My core professional focus includes:

*Reviewing, drafting, and optimizing cross-border international sales contracts to ensure seamless routing and unfreeze transit payments through strict banking compliance filters (including EU-to-UAE Free Zone corridors).

*Performing pre-emptive line-by-line verification of complete international shipping document packages (SMGS, CIM, CMR, and Bills of Lading data packets) on trade routes linking the EU, CIS, UAE, Turkey, and South Korea to prevent costly demurrage and customs delays.

*Organizing and reconstructing corporate data, establishing clear transaction chains from contracts to order confirmations to prepare companies for flawless statutory state audits.

I operate strictly in an asynchronous, text-only format (via secure email, Slack, or corporate ticketing environments) to guarantee absolute legal precision, systematic logging, and time efficiency.
  • English

    Fluent

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

  • Belarusian

    Native or bilingual

  • Ukrainian

    Fluent

  • Polish

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • European Trading & Operating Company (LPG & Petrochemicals)
    Chief Operating Officer (COO) & International Trade Compliance Expert
    CHEMICAL
    September 2023 - Today (2 years and 11 months)
    Bratislava, Slovakia
    1. Mitigating EU Banking De-Risking: Successfully resolved a high-stakes corporate emergency involving a frozen cross-border transaction within an UAE Free Zone hub. Following a compliance rejection of the counterparty's documentation by the European bank, autonomously took over executive management of the crisis, engineered a specialized multi-jurisdictional contract matrix with advanced protective legal clauses, and unlocked the funds, successfully executing the $***,***+ transfer on the very first attempt.

    2. Pre-Emptive Structural Auditing (Trade Compliance): Introduced a rigorous "pixel-perfect" document pre-audit system, enforcing pre-clearance and visual/graphic verification of all international shipping and customs drafts (including CMR, EAD, and SMGS rail/road waybills) prior to cargo departure. This structural optimization completely eliminated transportation bottlenecks and border delays caused by EU customs and regulatory authorities.

    3. Comprehensive Multi-Modal Document Verification: I perform line-by-line structural verification and cross-reconciliation of full international transport data packages (including ADR, CIM, and Bills of Lading) across global trade corridors from South Korea and Turkey into the European Union. I isolate hidden contractual risks and enforce absolute compliance with Incoterms 2020 transitions (specifically balancing seller-buyer risk exposure from FCA to DAP/CIF).
    Dangerous Goods Transportation Customs Compliance Trade Compliance HazMat Logistics Incoterms
  • Hungarian Logistics & Trading Holding (LPG & Petrochemicals)
    Managing Director / Chief Operating Officer (COO)
    CHEMICAL
    July 2021 - July 2026 (5 years)
    Budapest, Hungary
    Key Achievements & Operational Impact:
    1.Crisis Financial Engineering & Capital Preservation: Swiftly resolved an operational emergency involving the freezing of corporate capital during an abrupt wave of account closures by Hungarian commercial banks. Within a tight timeframe, designed and implemented a custom tripartite legal framework blending debt assignment (cession) and liability transfer. This successfully bypassed compliance deadlocks, legally rerouted international financial flows, and secured the frozen assets across multiple tranches into new European bank accounts.

    2.Cross-Border Rail Logistics & Fleet Management: Fully administered complex, trans-European supply chains for LPG and petrochemical products from CIS regions to Central Europe via high-risk rail routes. Coordinated operational bottlenecks between European rail carriers and cross-border infrastructure, while overseeing the optimal asset turnover of a dedicated hired tank-wagon fleet.
    3.Claims Management & Margin Protection: Directly mitigated substantial, unjustified overhead costs arising from demurrage and wagon delay penalties imposed by international counterparties. By implementing a granular, line-by-line structural audit of SMGS railway waybills, identified critical billing errors committed by contractors, successfully contesting and eliminating financial claims exceeding $***,***+ per annum.
    Contract Management International Logistics Supply Chain Risk Management Process Auditing Demurrage & Detention
  • Entrepreneurial & Corporate Governance Portfolio
    Business Owner / Managing Director / Legal Engineering Project Lead
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    January 2000 - June 2021 (21 years and 5 months)
    Minsk, Belarus
    •Enterprise Import/Export & Supply Chain Governance: Founded and scaled a wholesale B2B distribution enterprise and consumer import brand. Structured custom manufacturing infrastructure in China, engineered transnational multimodal container shipping routes from East Asia to Europe, and managed complete customs clearance protocols, precision tariff classifications (HS Codes) for a diverse product range, and foreign exchange regulatory compliance.
    •International Contract Engineering & Procurement: Headed high-value commercial contract operations within elite European enterprise hubs across Paris, Milan, and Cannes. Independently negotiated luxury commercial service agreements, aligned tailored contract provisions, and executed strict tech-legal vetting of international transactions with global tier-1 brands.
    •Commercial Asset Portfolio Governance & Claims Management: Managed comprehensive legal, financial, and operational administration of private commercial real estate assets. Structured long-term corporate leasing instruments, optimized asset tax exposure, and led all pre-trial corporate dispute resolutions and contract enforcement actions to safeguard ownership capital.
    International Trade Law Contract Management Customs Compliance Commercial Real Estate Management Cross-Border Infrastructure

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Education

  • Master’s Degree
    BIP – University of Law and Social-Information Technologies
    2000
    •Major: International Law •Specialization: International Public and Private Law, International Trade Contracts, and Regulatory Corporate Compliance.

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