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October 3, 2018

Dentons Kyiv advised Natixis

Dentons provided legal advice Natixis, a French corporate and investment bank, with regard to the Ukrainian law requirements for carrying out certain banking transactions, regulatory and banking and finance law matters. Dentons team in Ukraine was…

The largest merger in the legal market of Ukraine has been completed

On 27 September 2018 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine cleared merger of Asters and EPAP Ukraine. This completed the departure of EPAP Ukraine from the law firm of Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners. The newly created firm named Asters L…

September 27, 2018

Baker McKenzie assisted Monsanto

Baker McKenzie's Kyiv office provided full legal support to Monsanto, which has now become a part of Bayer group, on all stages of the seeds processing facility construction project in Ukraine.  The largest of its kind in Ukraine, the see…

Asters defended interests of PrivatBank

Asters defended the interests of PrivatBank CB JSC in a dispute with Pivdenmedbiosintez Design and Survey Institute JSC before the Commercial Cassation Court of the Supreme Court. The matter in dispute was the property guarantor's claims to declare i…

September 25, 2018

Sayenko Kharenko advised Mriya Agro Holding

Sayenko Kharenko has advised Mriya Agro Holding for several years in connection with USD 1.1 billion debt restructuring. 13 unsecured bank credits, 7 suppliers’ credits, 1 ECP programme and 2 issues of Eurobonds were restructured in a sing…

September 17, 2018

Sayenko Kharenko advised the European Fund for Southeast Europe

Sayenko Kharenko has acted as Ukrainian legal counsel to the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) in connection with Ukrainian hryvnia financing equivalent to EUR 10 million to PJSC Kredobank, a Ukrainian subsidiary of Poland's largest…

Ilyashev & Partners advised Cryptagio Exchange Platform

Tallinn office of Ilyashev & Partners advised Cryptagio – a licensed Estonian platform for cryptocurrency exchange – on issues related to business operations and business development. Services rendered by the law firm include legal s…

Asters acted as local Ukrainian counsel for Ukraine in Eurobond dispute with Russia

Asters acted as local Ukrainian legal counsel for Ukraine in the USD 3 billion Eurobond dispute with Russia where Ukraine has scored an important victory. The English Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in the latest hearing of the ongoing dispu…

September 12, 2018

Sayenko Kharenko helped Safège-Suez Consulting reach settlement with Ukrainian state body

Sayenko Kharenko's international arbitration team has represented the interests of Safège-Suez Consulting in reaching agreement with the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities on completion of payment for con…

Cybersecurity: Legal Conference

Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly, together with Asters law firm, are supporting European Cybersecurity Month* and holding the Cybersecurity Legal Conference. During the event representatives of state authorities together with leading lawyers, compli…

Ilyashev & Partners defended the interests of Ukrainian state-owned enterprise in Russia

Ilyashev & Partners represented the State Enterprise Ukrinterenergo in a dispute with the Russian state-owned CJSC Inter RAO UES regarding supply of Russian electricity to the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk Regions. &n…

September 7, 2018

Eterna Law - legal advisor to Gamma Solar Holding

Gamma Solar Holding, European solar energy projects operator and investor, is commencing investment into the development of a solar power station project with a capacity 2,3 MW in Vinnytsia Region. Eterna Law team of lawyers led by Maksym Uslystyi, p…

Asters advised EBRD on USD 15 million financing to Modern-Expo Group

Asters acted as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its USD 15 million financing to Modern-Expo Group, one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of fixtures and equipment for retail s…

Axon Partners and Oksana Kobzar Law Office announced merger

Against the backdrop of huge mergers, it was a backstage and private one. And now there are offices of the teal law company in three largest tech centers of Ukraine: Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv. The name of the merged company is Axon Partners. This me…

September 6, 2018

CMS advised on high-profile TIP Trailer Services sale

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has advised HNA Group, a global conglomerate focused on aviation, tourism, logistics and financial services, on the sale of TIP Trailer Services to I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment…

September 4, 2018

Kinstellar advised IFU on a loan to Kness Group

Kinstellar has acted as Ukrainian legal counsel to the Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU), an agency of the Government of Denmark, in connection with a secured EUR 5.75 million loan facility to Kness Group, a Ukraine’s leading engin…

August 30, 2018

Dentons expands its Real Estate practice

Natalia Levchuk has joined Dentons’ Kyiv office as a senior associate in the Real Estate practice group. Previously she worked with Ukrainian law firms Ilyashev & Partners, Kushnir, Yakymyak and Partners, Ukrainian Legal Group, Shevchenko, …

Sayenko Kharenko contributing to legal framework for consulting engineers in Ukrainian construction projects

Sayenko Kharenko's lawyers have actively participated in a working group to develop a legislative framework to regulate the role of independent consulting engineers in construction projects implemented in Ukraine. The working group was organize…

DLA Piper advised Atlantic Agro Holdings and DUI Holding

DLA Piper has advised Atlantic Agro Holdings and DUI Holding on the sale of three companies: Kyiv Atlantic Ukraine (KAU), Atlantic Farms and Atlantic Farms II, which together formed Kyiv Atlantic Group, a grain, oil seed and vegetable protein process…

August 23, 2018

ANK advised port operator of Odesa Port

ANK acted as a legal counsel to Brooklyn-Kyiv LLC – port operator of Odesa Port in the project related to conclusion of group of lease agreements for land plots granted for realization of the investment project on construction of the grain tr…

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