Lawyers in Ukraine
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268 lawyers listed
Roman Protsyshyn
Attorney at Law, Counsel, MCIArb
Ilyashev & Partners
Ruslan Drobyazko
Ruslan Drobyazko heads the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Kyiv. Throughout his career, Mr. Drobyazko participated in many international and national conferences and seminars regarding intellectual property and commercial law issues. Ruslan provides comprehensive services in connection with structuring transactions related to intellectual property and information technologies. He secures the intellectual property rights of its clients in Ukraine and protect clients against unfair businesses.
Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office
SERHII DERKACH
Partner Serhii Derkach specializes in corporate law and M&A, competition law, and dispute resolution. With 18 years of legal experience, including 6 years as an attorney, Sergiy handles a diverse range of cases, including: Providing legal support for investment attraction; Developing corporate structures and establishing consortiums; Obtaining preliminary conclusions and permits from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (including in the process of small-scale privatization of state-owned enterprises “Ukrspirt” and a single property complex grain mills); Establishing a joint venture with the participation of a foreign investor to build waste recycling plants in the Kyiv region (the project is implemented within the framework of international programs and the Ministry of Environment strategy); Conducting antimonopoly investigations and representing clients’ interests during proceedings on violations of competition law; Providing ongoing support for numerous corporate projects of one of the most famous Ukrainian breweries – “Opillya” and one of the market leaders in electronic auctions in Ukraine, UBIZ.UA; Supporting the sale of a controlling stake in PJSC “Tourist Complex “Cheremosh”; Reorganizing financial companies and coordinating significant participation acquisitions, bringing their activities in line with NBU licensing requirements; Apealing contesting auctions for the sale of special permits for subsoil use and other public procurement.
Ario Law Firm
Sergey Nedelko
Attorney at Law, Counsel, Head of Odesa Office
Ilyashev & Partners
Sergey Pogrebnoy
Sergey Pogrebnoy, partner at Sayenko Kharenko, has been deeply engaged in corporate security issues for more than 25 years. He has extensive expertise in developing and implementing corporate security systems, conducting internal investigations into allegations of corporate fraud, and defending client interests in corporate conflicts. Mr Pogrebnoy has gained considerable experience in advising clients on the most critical aspects of their business from investigatory and enforcement actions against them to protection in criminal proceedings. Mr Pogrebnoy’s experience includes advising clients on complex litigations, multi-million dollar investment projects, corporate law and management issues, infrastructure, construction and alternative energy projects.
Sayenko Kharenko
Sergii Zheka
Senior Associate with over ten years of legal experience in various areas of law, including corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, capital markets and contracts. Sergii's primary experience includes advising Ukrainian and foreign clients on different matters in connection with dispute resolution matters. He has also been extensively involved in M&A and corporate work, in negotiating contracts, participating in due diligence projects, and advising clients on general commercial matters.
Wolf Theiss
Sergiy Benedysiuk
Partner, Head of Corporate and M&A
LCF Law Group
Sergiy Kazmirchuk
Sergiy Kazmirchuk, counsel at Sayenko Kharenko, focuses on corporate law and M&A as well as banking and insurance regulatory matters. Sergiy has extensive track record of advising clients on M&A projects and on various corporate matters, including in highly regulated industries such as banking and insurance. During his 10-year legal practice at Sayenko Kharenko, Sergiy acted on a number of high-profile transactions involving sale and acquisition of Ukraine’s largest banks and insurance companies. His vast experience includes advising on legal due diligence of Ukraine’s assets, full transactional support, pre- and post-closing support, and other issues. After adoption of the Law of Ukraine "On Joint Stock Companies", he participated in developing one of the first in Ukraine forms of constituent documents of a bank - public joint stock company that were subsequently used as precedents. Notably, Sergiy was among those assisting with the conversion of the largest Ukrainian stock exchange into a private joint stock company in 2010. Sergiy’s experience in banking regulatory matters includes obtaining approvals from the National Bank of Ukraine for major banks for acquisition of significant shareholding in respective Ukrainian banking institutions (more than ten in total). Following introduction in 2012 of the statutory requirement to obtain written approval of the insurance regulator for acquisition or increase of significant shareholding in Ukrainian insurance companies, Sergiy has worked on a number of respective regulatory filings, including obtaining approvals from the Ukrainian insurance regulator for major Ukrainian and international companies to acquire significant interest in Ukrainian insurance companies. He advised one of the multinational insurance groups on obtaining the first approval ever granted in Ukraine for indirect acquisition of a Ukrainian insurance company by a non-resident.
Sayenko Kharenko
Sergiy Kliestov
Attorney at Law
Ilyashev & Partners
Sergiy Protyven
Counsel Sergiy Protyven has considerable experience of representing clients in complex litigation, bankruptcy and enforcement proceedings. During his work at a number of the leading banks he developed particular deep-level sector knowledge that enables him to provide clients from Ukraine’s banking sector with advice that goes beyond just legal. He also is well versed in advising clients from real estate, mining & metals and other industries. He regularly handles corporate, banking, debt collection disputes, and real estate disputes. He is deep level expertise includes protection of foreign investor’s rights, disputes with public authorities, and defending business against unlawful raiding. Sergiy advises and represents national and international clients at all stages of court proceedings in Ukraine as well as in dispute settlement cases.
Sayenko Kharenko
Sergiy Smirnov
Sergiy Smirnov, partner at Sayenko Kharenko, specialises in domestic corporate, fraud and business crimes, internal investigations and litigation matters. He has a significant record of representing clients at all stages of criminal and litigation proceedings. These matters span a variety of industries, including agricultural, banking, real estate and construction, insurance and other industries. His cutting-edge experience in complex cases with multiple claims and parties from different jurisdictions allows the firm to handle critical criminal issues, administrative and other disputes with public authorities and local government bodies.
Sayenko Kharenko
Serhii Uvarov
Partner, Co-Head of Cross-Border Litigation
Impacta Law
Serhiy Chorny
Serhiy Chorny is a co-managing partner of the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie and head of the Kyiv office's Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Group. Serhiy's primary focus vests in cross-border lending, structured finance, securitization, debt capital markets and debt restructuring. His clients include international financial institutions, major international banks and their subsidiaries in Ukraine, Eurobond issuance arrangers, state-owned and privately owned Ukrainian commercial banks, other financial institutions, international payment systems and a broad array of significant and mid-sized Ukrainian borrowers, issuers and security providers. Serhiy has successfully led a number of landmark transactions in the Ukrainian market, including debut Eurobond issuances, pioneering international securitizations and significant debt restructurings.
Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office
Serhiy Dzis
Position: partner. Area of ptactice: Commercial, Intellectual property, Labour & HR.
SDM Partners LLC
Serhiy Piontkovsky
Serhiy Piontkovsky is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Kyiv office, where he heads the Firm's Energy, Chemicals, Mining and Infrastructure and Real Estate practice groups. Serhiy is heavily involved in major privatization projects in Ukraine within the steel, mining, energy and industrial sectors. He has acted in numerous M&A transactions, including the acquisition of Ukrainian enterprises in the privatization process, particularly those via commercial tenders organized by the State Property Fund. In the real estate sector, Serhiy represents major international hotel chains, developers, construction companies, investment funds, embassies, religious organizations and private investors on various Ukrainian law issues related to property pre-lease and long-term leasing, acquisition of land lease rights, construction, design and letting.
Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office
Stanislav Karpov
Counsel, Attorney, Head of Tax Disputes Practice
ADER HABER
Stanislav Skrypnyk
Counsel
Hillmont Partners LLC
Svitlana Kheda
Svitlana Kheda, counsel at Sayenko Kharenko, heads labour practice, leading the firm’s privacy and data protection, anti-corruption and anti-bribery, and mediation groups. Dr Kheda is an internationally recognized expert in all of the above areas of law. Dr Kheda has extensive experience advising leading multinational companies on a wide range of sophisticated and complex issues in the field of labour/employment, privacy/data protection and anti-corruption/anti-bribery legislation. Dr Kheda also has extensive international experience in public-private partnerships in infrastructure. In particular, Dr Kheda focuses on adjusting the labour policies and procedures of multinational groups to Ukrainian legislation, including adapting corporate policies of foreign companies, developed according to the FCPA and the UKBA, to Ukrainian anticorruption legislation, and developing standard anti-corruption contract clauses and other corporate documentation in the anti-corruption area. Dr Kheda is experienced in conducting FCPA and the UKBA compliance due diligence reviews of Ukrainian targets, as well as internal investigations of compliance violations. Dr Kheda regularly prepares legal opinions on various instances of gift/charity/grant-in-aid giving and providing entertainment/hospitality to government officials and other subjects of liability for corruption offenses. Dr Kheda is renowned for her remarkable track record of complicated employment disputes settled amicably and on the clients’ terms. Svitlana Kheda is well-regarded for developing preventive mechanisms and risk mitigation solutions in the areas of her expertise.
Sayenko Kharenko
Taras Bondarenko
Taras specialises in complex support of construction, real estate and land law projects. He also advises on investment agreements related to real estate. His previous experience includes representing many large development companies in complex projects. He supported projects in relation to the construction and reconstruction of large shopping malls and residential complexes, including construction in the historical areas of settlements. Taras also supported major investment agreements for the purchase and lease of land and shopping malls and developed and implemented financing mechanisms for construction projects to optimise the tax burden on the developer. He has significant experience in pre-purchase due diligence of land banks and real estate objects to identify risks and develop an optimal transaction structure.
Sayenko Kharenko
Taras Dumych
Partner; specialised in Corporate Governance, Insolvency and Restructuring. Private Funds, Real Estate and Construction, Private Equity, Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, Energy and Natural Resources, Agriculture.
Wolf Theiss
Taras Ivanenko
Partner
EVERLEGAL
Tatyana Slipachuk
Special advisor Tatyana Slipachuk was a partner at Sayenko Kharenko from 2011 until her appointment as Chair of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine in 2018. With her profound experience in the field of cross-border dispute resolution and achievements in the area of democracy, Tatyana is uniquely placed to assist clients find strategic and practical solutions to complicated cross-border conflicts as well as to provide expert assistance in the institutional development of the rule of law standards. Her longstanding practice and extensive experience, including in law-making and public development, means she could offer a strategic perspective and solutions in complex situations while ensuring risk assessment and success.
Sayenko Kharenko
Tetiana Daniltseva
Partner, Head of Tax Disputes Practice
ADER HABER
Tetiana Fedorenko
Senior Associate at Tax, Restructuring, Claims and Recoveries practice, Attorney at law
GOLAW