MAX YEFIMENKO

**** *. ****** ***., **** ***, Denver, CO 80209. acvwti@r.postjobfree.com/303-***-****

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Associate General Counsel, Grynberg Petroleum Company & affiliated Grynberg companies

Denver, CO 12/2011-present

In-house corporate practice focuses on domestic & international business transactions,

complex commercial litigation and arbitration, general advisory role, and business

development support for a group of domestic & international upstream oil & gas, and

renewable energy companies

Provide legal advice to senior executives on legal issues and laws ranging from contract,

domestic & international litigation and arbitration to commercial issues, transportation, state

and federal laws and regulations, and corporate formation

Represent Grynberg Companies and their President & CEO with respect to a number of

pending and potential litigation, and other dispute resolution matters, including all aspects of

discovery/e-discovery, data gathering and case management

Negotiate, review and/or draft contracts, loans, NDAs, and consulting agreements with

financial institutions, private entities, consultants, contractors, including transaction

structuring, due diligence, business intelligence & analytics

Litigate complex civil cases focusing on breach of contract, deceit based on fraud, civil theft,

unjust enrichment, civil conspiracy, CCPA, Carmack Amendment, misappropriation of trade

secrets, adverse possession; conduct agency appeals

Research potential litigation claims, supervise outside domestic & international counsel, work

with co-counsels, expert witnesses and arbitrators in complex domestic & international

litigation and arbitration cases

Retain and supervise international counsel to handle Grynberg Companies litigation and/or

manage litigation teams in Ireland, Israel, Denmark, Greenland, and The Bahamas, including

drafting pleadings and case strategy

Highlights: Obtained $350,000 default judgment in complex fraud case; secured successful

settlement against major airline; developed winning strategy in ICC International Court of

Arbitrations case that helped client to retain 100% ownership of oil & gas wells in multi-

million dollar JV; procured and developed expert witness for multi-million dollar arbitration;

developed successful legal challenge to $2M breach of contract claim and obtained its

dismissal; successfully represented three multimillion dollar trusts in a lawsuit against six

defendants, managed case and defeated series of Motions for Summary Judgment and

Motions to Dismiss contemporaneously filed by six defendants in complex commercial

litigation; managed case and developed an innovative successful legal challenge/drafted

successful responsive brief to federal preemption-based Motion to Dismiss to defeat the said

Motion in a million-dollar complex commercial litigation that was then successfully settled;

represented President & CEO in a lawsuit against a major bank under CCPA, a case covered

by media; successfully represented President & CEO in a $40Million breach of contract

dispute with a major bank obtaining results favorable to the client

Law Office of Max Yefimenko, Denver, CO 2/2011-12/2011

Civil litigation practice in state courts, including consulting and association with other law

firms, focused on medical malpractice, personal injury, and employment litigation

Provided advice on variety of complex issues concerning medical malpractice and wrongful

death litigation focusing on expert testimony preparation, depositions, case strategy, and

analysis of complex medical records

Achieved positive cash flow during first month of operation

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Attorney, Burg Simpson, et al., P.C., Englewood, CO 2004-2010

Complex civil litigation practice in state & federal courts focused on multi-district litigation

(MDL), re: complex product liability & pharmaceutical mass tort; medical malpractice,

wrongful death, and personal injury cases; discovery, expert procurement/development and

expert testimony preparation; complex mass tort investigations

Served as Lead science attorney, Chair/member of key subcommittees of 6 Product Liability

MDLs Science & Expert Committees: Zyprexa MDL (resulted in $700M settlement), Vioxx

MDL (resulted in $4.85B settlement), ReNu, Bextra & Celebrex, Ortho Evra, and NSF

MDLs, re: discovery, expert witness search & expert testimony preparation, database

analysis/coding, mechanism of action, pharmacology, etc.

Served as e-discovery projects supervisor for 3 MDLs. Identified, analyzed and coded

expert-specific, hot, other relevant documents; supervised attorneys: expert-related

databases/document utilization, Concordance program, re: deposition/trial preparation

Successfully litigated failure to diagnose heart attack, asthma, SJS, cancer, failure to properly

treat, suicide, psychiatric, drug-to-drug interactions, and personal injury cases

Identified, met with, retained and/or developed key US, Canadian, UK, and NZ experts for 4

MDLs, and for dozens of medical malpractice, wrongful death, and personal injury cases

Successfully used advanced science degree & background working with experts/consultants

to develop effective legal strategies to obtain multi-million dollar settlements

Demonstrated unique ability to connect legal issues with medical/pharmaceutical sciences and

to facilitate communications between legal and healthcare professionals

Won Motion for Summary Judgment in unique personal injury case later settled for nine

times the amount of the original offer

EDUCATION

J.D., University of Denver College of Law, Denver, CO, 12/2002

Unofficial ranking: 20th in class-Graduated in 2 yrs and 4 mos

Earned the highest final grades in 5 classes: Administrative Law, Computer Forensics, etc.

Pharmaceutical Chemist Degree, Moscow Medical Academy (MMA)

G.P.A. 3.8/4.0; Graduated w/High Academic Honors; Rectors Scholar & Deans List-2yrs

Defended an innovative scientific thesis with the highest possible grades

BAR ADMISSIONS

Colorado

United States District Court, District of Colorado

HONORS, PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS & AWARDS

Invited speaker, Product Liability MDLs PSCs discovery & experts conferences, 2004-10

Working with Experts in Mass Tort Litigation, author, Mealey's Lecture, 2005

CO CLE Presenter, Pharmaceutical Torts Cases in Colorado; author, key exhibit, 2005

Chair/Co-chair/lead science & expert attorney-6 Product Liability MDLs Science & Expert

Committees key subcommittees, 2004-2010

Rectors Scholar; Dean's List of Scholastic Excellence; Member, the Governing Body-MMA

Honorary Member, Phi Delta Phi; Scottish Rite Foundation Lifetime Member

ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS

Classically trained pianist, history, philosophy, sports, and classical music

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