Lawyers in Ukraine
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268 lawyers listed
Krystyna Khripkova
Counsel, International Arbitration
Impacta Law
Kseniia Prokhur
Kseniia Prokhur is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Kyiv. In addition to her professional activity, Kseniia delivers lectures on procedural law at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Kseniia represents and advises clients in various types of commercial, corporate and employment litigation in Ukraine, and has significant experience in enforcing the awards of the most prominent international arbitration institutions. Kseniia specifically focuses on challenging the acts of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and advises clients on all related legal aspects.
Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office
Kyrylo Diachenko
Partner Kyrylo Diachenko has over 20 years of professional experience and specialises in international, financial and land law issues.
Sayenko Kharenko
Lina Nemchenko
Lina Nemchenko is partner in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate Practice Group and she is head of the Kyiv Employment & Migration practice and member of the EMEA Real Estate Steering Committee of the Firm. Lina was named "Best in Real Estate" by European Women in Business Law Awards twice, and she is the only Ukrainian lawyer to ever receive this accolade. Lina has extensive experience in advising both domestic and foreign clients on a wide range of real estate and construction matters, including advising on structuring major office and shopping center acquisitions, property development projects and various land-related transactions. She also has extensive expertise in landlord-tenant relations and in advising a number of the Firm's clients on setting up real estate investment funds for investing in Ukrainian real estate. She also regularly advises clients on data protection and general labor law. Among the large international companies Lina represents are McDonald's, Boeing, Oracle, Billa Ukraine (REWE Group), IKEA, ArcelorMittal and she also advises the governments of Canada, the US and the UK. Lina is also involved in legislation drafting in the real estate and employment areas.
Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office
MYKOLA SOKOLOV
Counsel Mykola Sokolov boasts nearly two decades of experience in jurisprudence. His primary specialization lies in debt restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings. As one of the pioneers in Ukraine, Mykola began advising clients on personal bankruptcy cases and initiated the first legal process aimed at restoring solvency for individuals. Today, he has successfully restructured millions of hryvnias in debts for numerous Ukrainians. At Ario Law Firm, Mykola supports cases involving bankruptcy procedures for large enterprises, representing both debtors and creditors. He also manages matters related to debt recovery and business solvency restoration, among others.
Ario Law Firm
Maksym Maksymenko
Maksym Maksymenko is a Strategic Advisor with over 20 years of experience in real estate, infrastructure, and energy. His professional track record includes participation in more than 1,500 projects across agriculture, finance, development, lodging, oil & gas, ports, and retail. Maksym is a regular contributor to the various working groups in the Ukrainian Parliament, Ministry for Communities, Ministry of Infrastructure, Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, and the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre. In addition to his professional work, Maksym has engaged in academic activities, including lecturing at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His academic work also includes developing a PhD thesis on optimising land use structure in Ukraine, aiming to facilitate such land use to streamline economic growth to benefit Ukrainian society with minimal negative environmental impact. Maksym draws on his extensive expertise to provide strategic guidance on complex real estate, infrastructure, and energy matters in Ukraine.
Avellum
Maksym Morozov
Senior Associate
CMS Ukraine
Maksym Nazarenko
Maksym Nazarenko, partner at Sayenko Kharenko, focuses on antitrust and competition matters, also practices corporate and real estate. Mr Nazarenko has extensive experience in antitrust law issues related to multinational and domestic M&A and joint ventures, including merger and ancillary restrictions clearances with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. He regularly advises clients on a wide variety of antitrust law matters, involving merger control, concerted practices in agreements, cases on cartels, abuse of dominance, and unfair competition. Maksym acts regularly for clients in the agriculture, automotive, banking, chemicals, electronics, FMCG, food & beverage, heavy machinery, insurance, IT, pharmaceuticals, retail, shipping, tobacco, and transportation sectors. His recent experience includes advising on: AB InBev on its acquisition of SABMiller (deal value USD 103 billion) DuPont on its merger with DOW Chemicals (deal value USD 130 billion) Maersk Line on its acquisition of Hamburg Süd (deal value EUR 3.7 billion)
Sayenko Kharenko
Maksym Sysoiev
Maksym Sysoiev is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a member of Dentons’ Global Energy Group. Maksym regularly advises foreign and local companies with respect to various legal issues and advises clients on their local and cross-border transactions and represents their interests before Ukrainian State authorities as well as support energy clients and their projects worldwide. He is a recognized legal expect in the sphere of energy and possess a considerable experience in advising regarding conventional and renewable energy sources. Maksym is a board member of the Ukrainian Bioenergy Association, and a legal expert at the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. He actively participates on behalf of the Firm in many public organizations, including the European Business Association and American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.
Dentons
Maksym Tesliar
Counsel
Kinstellar
Marharyta Tolmach
IP Lawyer
Vasil Kisil & Partners
Maria Orlyk
Maria Orlyk is a Corporate/M&A partner at CMS Ukraine and a member of the wider CMS international competition group. Maria has extensive experience in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, competition, energy, intellectual property, and employment law.
CMS Ukraine
Mariana Marchuk
Mariana Marchuk has about 20 years of practical experience in the areas of labor and migration, compliance and anti-corruption, commercial and international trade law, M&A and pharmaceutical regulation. Ms. Marchuk joined Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office in 1997 as an associate. From 1999 to 2004 she worked in Moscow, as an associate for a major Wall Street law firm and subsequently for Baker McKenzie. In 2004, she returned to the Firm’s Kyiv office and in 2010 she became a counsel. Ms. Marchuk advises Ukrainian and foreign clients on labor and migration law, focusing on employee compensation, terminations, transfers, data protection, and employee privacy. She is also experienced in dispute resolution and internal investigations, compliance and anti-corruption, international trade and commerce, consumer protection, mergers and acquisitions, information technology, and in matters concerning the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.
Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office
Marina Riashchenko
Attorney at Law, Counsel
Ilyashev & Partners
Mariya Nizhnik
Executive Partner. Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade
Aequo
Maryna Ilchuk
English and Ukrainian qualified Counsel
CMS Ukraine
Michael Kharenko
Michael Kharenko, partner at Sayenko Kharenko, is one of the most successful dealmakers in the region. For over two decades, he has been structuring major international investments and attracting capital to Ukraine. This has included some of the most innovative and complex deals in Ukraine’s history worth a total amount of over USD 40 billion. Much of his work has an international element to it, and he often works closely with key players in capital markets, multinational financial institutions and top law firms around the world. Michael has worked on a wide range of major private and public securities offerings, syndications and secured finance transactions in Ukraine, representing leading investment banks, multinational financial institutions, and corporates. Among his clients are Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, EBRD, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING Bank, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Oschadbank, UBS, Ukreximbank, and the World Bank. Michael has a very strong IT and disruptive technologies practice, acting for a variety of investors, global IT-companies and IT-start-ups on various sector-specific regulatory, commercial and legal issues. Michael Kharenko serves as a supervisory board member of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) crated by top Ukrainian VCs.
Sayenko Kharenko
Michael Lukashenko
Partner
Aequo
Mikhail Ilyashev
Attorney at Law, Managing Partner, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Head of Corporate and M&A Practice
Ilyashev & Partners
Mykhailo Grynyshyn
Mykhailo Grynyshyn more than 5 years of professional experience and specializes in M&A, corporate governance and general corporate matters. His experience includes advising clients on sophisticated M&A public deals in the real estate, banking, FMCG, insurance, IT, pharmaceutical and other sectors. Mykhailo also has extensive experience in participating in due diligence of companies across various sectors and industries, drafting transactional documents and providing corporate structuring advice. Most recently, Mykhailo advised: VR Capital on the acquisition of 50% of shares in Nicken Holdings LTD from Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU). Sayenko Kharenko’s involvement in this transaction included legal due diligence of the project companies, participation in negotiation of the transactional documents, and obtaining a merger clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine; VR Capital on the establishment of a joint venture with Volterra Energy Group, the developing partner. Sayenko Kharenko’s involvement included advice on the structure of the transaction, legal support during the negotiation and conclusion of the shareholders’ agreement, legal due diligence of project companies, and preparation of documents required for their acquisition by the joint venture. Auchan Retail Ukraine on acquisition of Karavan Hypermarket chain. Sayenko Kharenko provided full transactional support, including general advice on corporate law and regulatory matters, two-stage legal due diligence, structuring of the transaction, preparing and negotiating all transactional documents and operational documents related to the hypermarkets, assisted with merger clearance and extensive pre-completion and completion work.
Sayenko Kharenko
Mykhaylo Soroka
Counsel
CMS Ukraine
Mykola Heletiy
Counsel
CMS Ukraine
Mykola Melnyk
Position: partner. Area of practice: Tax advice and Planning/tax litigation, Dispute resolution and Litigation.
SDM Partners LLC
Mykola Stetsenko
Mykola Stetsenko is the Managing Partner, Head of Corporate/M&A Practice, and Co-Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure at AVELLUM. For nearly 30 years of his legal career Mykola focused on complex multijurisdictional transactions, some of which have set new market precedents and are repeatedly recognised by legal directories, including Chambers, IFLR, and The Legal 500. Mykola has extensive experience in all types of corporate and M&A transactions, including acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, IPOs, securities, corporate restructurings, and corporate governance. Mykola also advises major international corporations on their market entry and employment matters in Ukraine. As Co-Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure Mykola focuses on land acquisitions, construction, natural resources, minerals exploration, production sharing agreements, and public-private partnerships. Mykola is one of the lead authors of modern corporate law in Ukraine, having drafted provisions on shareholder agreements, securities regulation, corporations and LLCs, corporate governance, as well as squeeze-out and sell-out mechanisms. Mykola currently serves as President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, the largest independent association of lawyers in Ukraine, where he is actively involved in legal policy development and advancement of the legal profession. Mykola is also a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), where he focuses on assisting foreign companies with their market entry to Ukraine.
Avellum