Training centers of seafarers: recognition by flag administration
Interlegal, jointly with the Panamanian associated office, succeeded in the first ever in Ukraine recognition of the Ukrainian Training Center of Seafarers by the Panama Maritime Authority. Maritime Training Centers, recognized and approved by the Panama Maritime Authority, are authorized to issue Certificates of Employment to seafarers for 3 years on behalf of the Flag of Panama (under the provisions of the Internat...
Calculation of demurrage under the Sales Agreement on agricultural produces under FOB terms
Interlegal continues to consult clients upon the issues of laytime calculation and demurrage accrual. Analysis of the relevant terms, incorporated into sales agreements on export of agricultural products, needs a special approach. In some cases, when assessing correctness of calculation, provisions of the Charter Party shall be also taken into account. Thus, having supported the recent request of the Client, foreign ...
Interlegal experts prevented cargo arrest
Well-coordinated teamwork of Interlegal lawyers Mikhail Selivanov and Vitalii Tolstik under general supervision of senior lawyer Alexey Remeslo resulted in preventing unlawful arrest of international trader’s cargo at the terminal, over 4,000 tons, within the criminal proceedings. Interlegal experts engaged promptly in the proceedings at the stage of considering application on property arrest by investigative judge,...
Legal Alliance Company Tops the List of Ukraine's 50 Leading Law Firms in pharmaceutical industry
At the beginning of December the results of the annual research "50 Leading Law Firms of Ukraine" conducted by Yuridicheskaya Praktika Weekly jointly with Kommersant-Ukraine Publishing House were published. Legal Alliance Company is ranked as the mostly recommended law firm in pharmaceutical industry. From 2004 Legal Alliance Company maintains the leading positions in international and national professional and indu...
Dentons enters ranks of top 20 most recognized firms
A new report released in October 2013 by Acritas, the world’s leading provider of legal market research, shows that Dentons has entered the ranks of the top 20 legal brands just six months after the firm’s launch. The Acritas 2013 Global Elite Brand Index ranks Dentons as the 19th most favorably recognized legal brand, according to the responses of 815 senior general counsel in multinational companies with revenue...
Sayenko Kharenko advises on the sale of one of the major Ukrainian online payments system providers
Sayenko Kharenko acted as legal counsel on the sale of the controlling stake in BUDUS INVESTMENT LIMITED, holding company of Portmone LLC (one of the largest Ukrainian online payments system providers) and MBK Financial Company LLC (provider of payment transfer services to non-banking financial institutions), to Europe Virgin Fund, a regional private equity fund managed by Dragon Capital IC.Sayenko Kharenko team draf...
Legal Alliance Company — legal partner of BUSINESS CLASS FARM AWARD
Legal Alliance Company acted as a legal partner of expert adviser annual prize BUSINESS CLASS FARM AWARD which was launched by business edition Business Class magazine. The aim of this award is to identify the main businessmen’s and companies achievements of pharmaceutical sector in domestic business. Award nominations of BUSINESS CLASS FARM AWARD: • Person of the year• Work-stream leader• Company of the yea...
Vasil Kisil & Partners is Among the Best Tax Practices According to the International Rating World Tax 2014
Vasil Kisil & Partners is named once again among the best tax advisors in Ukraine according to the international research World Tax 2014 published at the beginning of January 2014. The publishers particularly highlight professional accomplishments of Denis Lysenko, Partner and Head of Taxation, working across the full spectrum of tax advisory work with a particular strength in mergers and acquisitions and other ...
Olena Perepelynska spoke at the «Arbitration in emerging markets» conference
9 December, Moscow, Olena Perepelynska, counsel at Sayenko Kharenko, spoke at the “Arbitration in emerging markets” conference organized by ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF) on the eve of ICC Russia's annual conference “Russia as a place for dispute resolution: anticipating the changes” and hosted by Norton Rose Fulbright. During the conference arbitration experts discussed the ICC perspective, arbitration in CIS...
DLA Piper advised Leroy Merlin on construction and opening of its second hypermarket in Ukraine
DLA Piper advised Leroy Merlin, one of the largest European DIY ("do it yourself") retail networks, on construction and opening of its second hypermarket in Brovarskyi prospect 3V in Kyiv within the frames of Leroy Merlin further expansion in Ukraine. The project was structured through acquisition of corporate rights in a Ukrainian company having title to land, and further construction of the hypermarket at this land...
Law firm processes standardization
Oleksiy Bezhevets, Attorney, Partner with Legal Alliance CompanyEvery business, including legal business at some stage of its development is trying to structure their business processes. This includes planning and control, operations, contacts, documents control arrangements, introduction of rules and standards. Another regulation stage can lead to consideration of the possibility and feasibility of standardi...
IT services for non-residents: tax implications
Dmytro B. Ivanusa, CounselOrest V.Matviychuk, AssociateThe overall modernization of Ukraine’s economy is highly dependent on development and state support for innovations, including, in particular, in the sector of the information and communications technologies (IT). The IT industry has become one of the most robust industries in the world and currently is the biggest part of the global economy in terms of aggregat...
Summary Conference «Pharma-business: Conclusions 2012 — Expectations 2013» was held In Kyiv
According to the press service of the Legal Alliance CompanyThe summary Conference of the Legal Alliance Company «Pharmaceutical business: Conclusions 2012 - Expectations 2013» was held in Kyiv on the 7th of December this year, which has become a traditional venue for the discussion of the actual issues of pharmaceutical law of the year by the market participants and their legal counsels.More than 120 representative...
IX Annual Legal Forum «Development of Legal Services Market in Ukraine — 2013»
The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) held ninth Annual Legal Forum "Development of Legal Services Market in Ukraine - 2013" - the crucial event of the year for leaders and partners of law firms and business development managers.Given the nature of the forum, is not surprising that this event always takes place at the beginning of the year. After all, its main purpose is to analyze the current trends in the legal marke...
Ukrainian Arbitration Association and UBA Students’ League held the 2nd Arbitration school
On 7-11 May 2014 in the premises of leading law firms Baker&McKenzie and Asters the 2nd Arbitration School, jointly organized by the Ukrainian Arbitration Association and the Students’ League of the Ukrainian Bar Association, was being held.The opening ceremony was started by Olena Perepelynska, coordinator and speaker of the 2nd Arbitration school. The representatives of the Ukrainian Bar Association, the UBA St...
Victoria Ptashnyk is a member of the Public Council under the Antimonopoly Committee
On the 26 of February there was held a constitutive meeting for the election of new members of the Public Council under the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. Of the present 40 candidates from civil society, there were elected 38 people. The Public Council also entered Victoria Ptashnyk, partner with the Legal Alliance Company. After the inaugural meeting there was held the first session of the Public Council, ...
Lavrynovych & Partners Sponsors Ukrainian Team in the Final of WTO Law Competition
Lavrynovych & Partners became a sponsor of the team of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in the Final round of the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law, taking place from April 30 to May 5, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland.The team, which includes Olesia Kryvetska, Vitalii Danylchenko and young Lavrynovych & Partners’ associate Mariia-Khrystyna Kozii, on the way to the final on the regional round ...
Issues of customs clearance of goods and services purchased at the account of Global Fund's grants regulated in Ukraine
On April 17, 2013 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a resolution “Certain issues of importing to the customs territory of Ukraine of goods and supply on the customs territory of Ukraine of goods and rendering services, which are paid at the account of grants (subgrants) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Ukraine”. Accordingly, realization of the Law of Ukraine “On implementati...
Partners of Avellum Partners are named to 2013 Best Lawyers in Ukraine
Avellum Partners is pleased to announce that two of its partners have been named to the 2013 Edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The Partner of Avellum Partners, Glib Bondar was named by Best Lawyers 2013 as a Lawyer of the Year in Ukraine in the Project Finance and Development practice area. In addition, Glib Bondar was selected by his peers for in...
Authority and oppossition have to unite for approval of Eurointegration laws
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, a former president of Poland, calls on Ukrainian authorities and opposition to join efforts to achieve approval by the Parliament all necessary Eurointegration laws. This was declared by him on April 22, during a meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov. Aleksander Kwaśniewski noted that on April 22 he had already met with Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Rybak and leader...
