Legal Business News
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Avellum Partners advises on three Eurobond Offerings and two Liability Management Transactions out of Ukraine
Avellum Partners is proud to announce that it acted as the Ukrainian law counsel on three Eurobond offerings and two liability management transactions out of Ukraine. New Eurobond Offering and Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation by DTEK Avellum Partners advised DTEK Group on the new issue (the “New Issue”) of USD600 million 7,875% high yield notes due 2018, admitted to trading on the Global Exchange Market of the...
Avellum Partners advised Kernel Group in connection with binding agreement to acquire 108,000 ha farming business in Ukraine
Avellum Partners announces today that it acted as the legal counsel to Kernel Holding S.A. in connection with a binding agreement to acquire an 80% interest in a farming business that manages 108,000 hectares of leasehold farmland and operates 100,000 tons of grain storage capacity. The purchase price for the shares is USD68 million. With a highly concentrated and fully-farmed land bank in the southern Chernihiv and...
Sayenko Kharenko was ranked top-tier by Ukrainian Law Firms 2013 in all major practice areas
On 18 April 2013 Yuridicheskaya Practika publishing house released its most anticipated research of the Ukrainian legal market “Ukrainian Law Firms 2013.” The research traditionally comprises two blocks – Deals League Tables, featuring the involvement of the Ukrainian law firms in the country’s largest transactions, and Who’s Who, ranking law firms and individual lawyers by practice areas. Sayenko Kharenko receive...
II Annual Summer Forum on Public Law of the Association of Attorneys of Ukraine
Association of Attorneys of Ukraine invites you to participate in II Annual Summer Forum on Public Law of the Association of Attorneys of Ukraine, that will be held on June 13, 2013 at Hotel «Premiere Palace», Sofievskiy Grand Hall, T. Shevchenko Blvd. / Pushkins'ka Str., 5-7/29 For two years consecutively Association of Attorneys of Ukraine carries out the exclusive professional arrangement for attorneys serving as ...
12 VKP Key Practices among the Leaders of the National Ukrainian Law Firms 2013 Rating
According to the results of the annual national survey “Ukrainian Law Firms 2013: A Handbook for Foreign Clients”, Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm has reaffirmed its leadership in twelve major areas of law, with four key practices receiving the highest recognition of market researchers, and two partners topping the individual ratings. In particular, the firm was recognized as number one in the areas of Labour ...
Legal support of the project of investment of innovative terminal Big Pad in Russian Federation
Attorneys’ Association “Gestors” provided complex legal support to the company Restafina Real Estate and Finance AG (Swiss Confederation) related to the preparation of investment contracts under the laws ofthe Russian Federation regarding the provision to the company “New technologies”, LLC (Russian Federation) – the Russian developers of innovative terminal called Big Pad to the sum of more than $ 10million. Our Par...
Avellum Partners speaks on International Tax Seminar
Avellum Partners announces today that it participated in the International Tax Seminar (“Seminar”), jointly organized by IFA Ukraine and IFA Netherlands, which took place on 28 March 2013 in Radisson Blu Hotel.The focus of the Seminar was drawn to the International Tax Structuring Strategies for Ukrainian Business in 2013. Among speakers of the Seminar were the foreign and local leading experts in international taxat...
New Firm Dentons to Challenge Status Quo in Legal Services
Today marks the public launch of Dentons, a new global law firm established to provide its clients with the competitive edge required by an increasingly complex and interconnected marketplace.Formed by the combination of international law firm Salans LLP, Canadian law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) and international law firm SNR Denton, Dentons is driven to challenge the status quo in legal services by deliver...
Avellum Partners advises on buyout of AVK’s shares from Western NIS Enterprise Fund
Avellum Partners announces today that it acted as the legal counsel to AVK in connection with the buyout of 25,1% of shares in AVK from Western NIS Enterprise Fund (“Transaction”). Avellum Partners have also advised AVK in connection with obtaining of the approval of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for this Transaction. AVK is one of the largest confectionery manufacturers in Ukraine. Established in 1991, now ...
Interlegal supported execution of bank guarantee as security under the charter party
Security of the charterer’s obligations under the charter party is a vital issue for today freight market. At the same time, financial instruments for the purpose of securing obligations under the charter party, for instance by issuing bank guarantee by the charterer, are rarely used in practice. Interlegal experts consulted the Client, a large carrier of project cargos, acting as the charterer under the charter part...
