Corporate and M&A
Opening doors to business
Helping foreign businesses start operations in Ukraine. We give advice from optimal company type choice to execution of a corporate agreement between partners. We create solid corporate structures.
Supporting transactions
This is our strength. We like to bring transactions to a successful conclusion. Focusing on conditions that are really important for clients and do not waste time on secondary things.
Making corporate restructurings
Helping clients build a lean corporate structure. Such structure is easier to manage, requires fewer maintenance costs, and makes it easier to raise finance. We put things in order in structures with over 70 companies.
Advising on corporate governance
We understand that effective corporate governance is the future of Ukrainian businesses. This is supported by our research [link].
We closely cooperate with the Corporate Governance Professional Association and participate in the development of corporate governance laws and regulations.
Advising banks, industrial companies, agricultural holdings, and food producers. From international groups to family companies.
"Long-standing firm well versed in a range of corporate and commercial issues"
Chambers Europe 2021
selected projects
Publications
14/02/2023
Ukraine has moved to a hybrid corporate governance model. For years, businesses could only use the two-tier model, with the management and the supervisory boards strictly separated. Now companies can take advantage of the one-tier model with its flexibility and dynamics.
11/10/2022
Since 1991, the Ukrainian economy has remarkably transformed from its Soviet model to a modern and free market one. Still, thousands of enterprises remain in state and municipal ownership. The Government is interested in handing over publicly owned assets to effective private owners for future investment and development.
10/06/2022
Years of occupation of Ukraine by russia, whatever form it happened in, made Ukraine look close to russia in all senses to the rest of the world. International businesses considered this closeness as a marker to optimize operations in Eastern Europe. In management terms, it often resulted in direct reporting of Ukrainians to russian offices instead of headquarters. In legal terms, the result was often the corporate control of russian units of multinational corporations over Ukrainian units or other forms of control such as IP licensing...
17/04/2022
Q&A provides an overview of Corporate Governance laws and regulations applicable in Ukraine
Team
Volodymyr Igonin
Partner, Attorney-at-Law
Corporate and M&A,
Agribusiness,
Telecommunications, Media & Technology
Olha Lynnyk
Junior Associate
Corporate and M&A
Anatoliy Pashynskyi
Counsel, Attorney-at-Law
Anticorruption Issues,
Corporate and M&A,
Private Client and Wealth Management
Artem Shmatov
Senior Associate
Corporate and M&A