Artem Handriko

Associate Partner, Executive Director of REVERA Belarus, Head of IT | IP Practice
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Artem Handriko

Artem as an Executive Director of the Belarusian office of REVERA, specializes in legal support for technology companies: from startups to large businesses.

Artem supports startups on a wide range of issues: from building a business model and legal-packaging of the product to attracting the first investment, including building relations between founders and the startup team. Artem also provides legal support on the establishment of a trade secret regime, registration of intellectual property rights, and their legal protection.

Artem also supports large technology companies in the area of corporate structuring, business models, and contractual relations. He has extensive experience in conducting Legal Due Diligence of IT companies in terms of registration of rights to software products, compliance with preferential legal regimes.

In addition, Artem has considerable experience in supporting IT-companies on the High Tech Park (HTP) regime, provides comprehensive support in the HTP accession procedure, and compliance with the HTP regime. He supports companies on the realization of crypto-projects in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

Among the clients: My.Games, Gismart, SayGames, Verv, Playrix, Easybrain, iTechArt Group, Amasty, On The Spot Development etc.

In 2019, Artem was awarded the prestigious LEGAL 500 rating as a lawyer with deep expertise in the field of IT.

Artem is a regular author of materials on the portals: Pro business, Online, dev.by, Muffin, vc.ru, rb.ru. He is also the creator of several guides for startups and IT-companies.

Additional facts about the associate

  • Provided legal support for the entry into Hi-Tech Park of more than 300 projects.
  • In 2019, Artem was noted by the prestigious The Legal 500 rating as a lawyer possessing a deep expertise in IT, and in 2020 he was noted a ‘Rising star’ in the ‘Intellectual property’ category.
  • Artem teaches the “Legal Support of Management Activity” discipline as part of the MBA program in BSU’s Business Institute.

 

 

Certificate of attestation of the person providing legal services, No. 156 of 06.04.2023

300+ projects

involving admission to Hi-Tech Park

Education & training

  • Belarusian State University, Law Department (Master’s programme)

Additional education

  • MBA Business MaximuM (Here and Now Business School and Adizes Institute)
  • Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management in Legal Business (HSE University)
  • Lawyer in CyberSports and Gaming Industry Course (Moscow Digital School)
  • Manager’s professional skills course (Here and Now Business School)
  • The Art of Developing People course (Here and Now Business School)
  • Negotiation course (Business Tools)

Hobbies

  • Artem plays the guitar, likes literature and numismatics

Projects

SayGames
Comprehensive legal support for a leading global mobile game developer, including IP, tax, employment and contractual matters.
Vizor Games
Сurrent legal support to the company, including: creation and protection of intellectual property, releasing video games, advising on national and international taxation, monitoring registration for Hi-Tech Park residency.
Mamboo Games
REVERA has accompanied the entry of game dev studio Mamboo Games into an international gaming brand, the leader in the Eastern European online entertainment market. The REVERA team provided comprehensive support for the investment transaction: conducted a legal audit of the company, structured the transaction, developed all the packages of documents (convertible loan agreement, option agreement, partnership agreement, non-competition agreement, corporate documents on joining the company), advised the parties on tax consequences of the transaction.
Playrix
Supporting a client entering the Belarusian market, maintenance the admission to Hi-Tech Park.
Red Rock ltd.
Systematic consulting of a successful Belarusian startup developing software for health/fitness exercises, including corporate, tax, contractual consulting and IP matters.
Twistellar
Legal support of the restructuring of a Belarusian company entering the Belarusian Hi-Tech Park, support during admission to Hi-Tech Park.
AR Squad
Preparing agreements for software development, in particular survey of allocation of IP rights among customer and counterparties, employees and third parties, registration and protection of company’s intellectual property.
A major developer of software products
REVERA’s team supported client in complying with the Hi-Tech Park regime, carried out a revaluation procedure with respect to new lines of business for HTP residents, and elaborated standard contracts for new lines of business.
Gismart
Comprehensive legal support of one of the most famous developers and publishers of music applications, including corporate, contractual, tax, regulatory support, IP rights protection.
ItechArt
Legal support of one of the oldest and largest IT-companies in Belarus on spot activity issues, consulting on intellectual property, corporate and labor issues.
LogicLike
Comprehensive legal support for a successful start-up in the field of children's EdTech online training in mathematics and logic, including issues of corporate, contract, tax law, building partnerships, attracting angelic investment.
Fibery
Legal support of the registration of the Fibery project (Fibery - a new system for managing companies), including corporate restructuring, registration of relations with institutional investors, support of accession to the HTP.
Playrix BY
Supporting the creation of a game development centre in Belarus. Supporting Hi-Tech Park accession. Support in labour, corporate, migration, tax and other business issues of the Belarusian development centre.
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