Maksym Lesyk
Senior legal expert
Maksym worked as a legal adviser at the Executive Committee of the Lutsk City Council and as a junior associate at several law firms.
For a long period, he headed a law firm specialising in legal assistance of foreign commercial activity, commercial and tax law, providing legal support to foreign clients on a wide range of foreign investment issues.
He held positions as Head and Deputy Head of the Legal Department at several state enterprises (SE "Judicial Information Systems", SE "Information Centre of the Ministry of Justice", SE "National Information Systems").
He dealt with public (state) investment matters while serving as Deputy Head and Acting Head of the Legal Support Division at the State Road Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor).
His long-term areas of practice included international financing of the construction, reconstruction and capital repair of national highways, application of FIDIC standard contract forms, road construction concessions, and dispute resolution between Ukravtodor and foreign contractors.
He contributed to the drafting of the Law of Ukraine “On Concession”, legislative acts on road construction financing, and Cabinet of Ministers’ resolutions on concession-related matters in road construction (reconstruction/repair).
He worked as a legal expert at the NGO “Ukrainian Infrastructure Association” (UNITE), focusing on improving pricing in road construction and drafting Cabinet of Ministers’ resolutions, including on maximum authorized vehicle weight for freight vehicles on public roads (notably the CMU Resolution No. 105 of 9 February 2022 on amendments to the Traffic Rules).
Since 2023, he has served as a legal expert at the Project Steering Office (ProSteer) under the Ministry of Infrastructure (later the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine) within the USAID project “State-Owned Enterprise Reform Activity in Ukraine”. His responsibilities included public investment matters in the context of loan and grant agreements for infrastructure recovery and development, drafting proposals for such agreements, developing Operational Manuals for EIB-funded programmes, and legal aspects of project monitoring and Ukraine’s priority needs in the context of the World Bank’s RDNA report.
He graduated from Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University with a degree in Law. He also obtained a Master’s degree in International Law from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.