Oleksandr Kryvenko

Oleksandr Kryvenko is a litigation attorney in the firm’s New York City office. His practice spans arbitration, commercial and civil litigation, intellectual property disputes, and appellate work in both federal and state courts. He represents individual and corporate clients, including a large U.S. fintech company, advising on business and legal matters and handling cases from inception through resolution.

Across his litigation practice, Oleksandr has built a record of favorable results. He has secured preliminary injunctions, orders of attachment, temporary restraining orders, and relief in aid of arbitration. He has defended arbitration awards against efforts to vacate them, obtained summary judgments in breach of contract matters, struck opposing counterclaims, and won pre-trial preclusion of adverse evidence. In one contested matter against a national law firm, he secured an order compelling production of a stock certificate, and in another he obtained a protective order to prevent discovery abuse against his client.

His motion practice has drawn outside attention. In Sishodia v. Serhant, a pending matter in New York Supreme Court referenced by The Real Deal, he served as principal drafter of a cross-motion for summary judgment on a breach of contract claim. On appeal in Gambarian v. Spivakov, he was the principal drafter of the respondents’ brief, and the lower court’s order in favor of his client was affirmed by the Appellate Division, Second Department.

Earlier in his career, Oleksandr handled nursing home defense, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and personal injury matters, drafting summary judgment motions and expert affidavits and appearing in proceedings across seven New York counties. He also litigated landlord-tenant, commercial, estate, and real estate disputes, serving as principal drafter and arguer on appeals before the Appellate Division, First Department. In Rawlins v. Sheppard, he drafted the appellant’s brief and argued before the First Department, which reversed the lower court’s judgment and dismissed the complaint against his clients. That case was later referenced by the Trusts and Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association.

Before entering private practice in New York, Oleksandr served as a judicial intern to Justice Saliann Scarpulla in the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, where he drafted orders and judgments and prepared memoranda of findings. He began his legal career in Ukraine, practicing civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy, and serving as an assistant attorney in the Military Prosecutor’s Office, where he was honorably discharged with the rank of Lieutenant of Justice. He was named Young Lawyer of the Year by the Young Lawyers Council of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in 2013.

Oleksandr is active in the legal community as a frequent CLE program chair and author. He has chaired and co-chaired continuing legal education programs for the New York County Lawyers Association and the New York State Bar Association, including programs featuring sitting judges and prominent legal scholars, and his work was recognized with the 2019 Kobak Award. His publications address arbitration and the challenges international lawyers face in launching legal careers in the United States. He has served as a director on the NYCLA Board of Directors, founding chair of its Committee on Inclusion of International Lawyers in the U.S. Legal Profession, and a trustee of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.

Oleksandr earned his Master of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Michigan Grotius Fellow, and holds law degrees with honors from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Ukraine. He is admitted to practice in New York and Ukraine, as well as the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and is fluent in English, Russian, and Ukrainian.