Dentons Rattagan Arocena — Ukraine
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### The firm Whether on the ground in Ukraine, or working out of other Dentons offices, our team’s purpose is still the same as it was when we established our Kyiv office in 1992: to provide the highest quality legal advice to our clients and to help them solve challenges and realize opportunities. Recognized among the leading international law firms in Ukraine, our team has decades of experience providing expert advice across a number of sectors, particularly agribusiness, technology, energy, projects and infrastructure and defense. We have the track record you would expect in all core legal disciplines, including M&A, employment and labor, real estate and banking and finance. As well as supporting clients with their investments in Ukraine, we are also excited to help our Ukrainian-headquartered clients as they expand internationally, leveraging Dentons’ unrivalled geographic footprint. For those interested in being part of Ukraine’s transformation and rebuild, the team have created a hub where you can find latest news and updates. ### Main Areas of Practice Dentons’ lawyers and professionals provide services in the following practice disciplines and industry sectors: Corporate and M&A: With a corporate practice that encompasses multibillion-dollar purchases of public companies, corporate governance and formation, venture and private equity investing, compliance and operations, and alliances and breakups in virtually every corner of the world, Dentons’ scope and reach is as broad as the universe of corporate interests. Competition and Antitrust: Dentons provides legal advice and judicial assistance in all aspects of national and EU competition law, consumer law, state aid, tender procedures and regulatory issues. Clients receive tailored, industry-focused advice on complex litigation, investigations by competition authorities, merger control, competition compliance, or commercial arrangements. Intellectual Property and Technology: Dentons’ lawyers identify, protect and help commercialize IP in the most highly developed markets — and in jurisdictions where IP laws and enforcement are still evolving. Dentons’ lawyers and technical/scientific advisors represent global corporations, academic and research institutions, inventors and artists, venture capital firms and others invested in patents, trademarks, copyrights and proprietary property. Banking and Finance: Dentons covers every aspect of banking and capital markets transactions and regulation in the world’s leading financial centres. Dentons helps clients access and invest new sources of capital, develop and use financial products, structure financing transactions, comply with regulations, respond to investigations and resolve disputes. Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration: Dentons’ highly reputable Litigation and Dispute Resolution lawyers are particularly well known for helping clients resolve disputes in energy, construction and engineering, banking, restructuring and insolvency, life sciences and retail. The team is also highly experienced in EU trade disputes, investigations and international arbitration. Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Dentons’ teams formulate strategies that result in the optimal solution for trustees, bondholders, investors, traders, debtors, creditors and creditor committees around the world as it pursues claims for clients through negotiation and litigation. Public Law and Regulatory: Dentons has unique regional and global capabilities in advising clients on complex and multi-jurisdictional regulatory issues. We help clients navigate the most pressing regulatory challenges such as: ESG, greenwashing, chemicals, climate change, circular economy, public procurement, and defense and security. Real Estate: The Real Estate practice at Dentons is the largest in the world, and advises real estate owners, investors and lenders on some of the most complex development, acquisition, disposition, debt and equity transactions undertaken in today’s market. Dentons’ hotels and leisure practice is consistently ranked among the best in the world. Tax: With experience in worldwide jurisdictions, Dentons provides comprehensive tax advice to individuals, private companies, multinationals and other entities on tax planning, compliance, M&A structuring tax advantaged investing, transfer pricing, disputes with tax authorities and more. ### Sector focus To ensure our lawyers understand the key trends and developments facing your industry, we have established dedicated sector groups focused on the following: Consumer Goods, Energy, Family Office and High Net Worth Individuals, Financial Institutions, Industrials, Insurance, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Real Estate, Sovereign, Technology Media and Telecommunications, and Transport and Infrastructure. ### Languages ### 80+ languages including - Arabic - German - Hungarian - Italian - Japanese - Kazakh - Mandarin - Polish - Romanian - Russian - Slovak - Afrikaans - Spanish - Turkish - Ukrainian - Uzbek - Azerbaijani - Bulgarian - Czech - Dutch - English - French - Georgian ### Staffing Figures - 0 Total number of people - 0 Number of lawyers - 20 Kyiv office
Office locations
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Kyiv
Dentons 41 Naberezhno-khreshchatytska Street 9th Floor 04070 Kyiv Kyiv Ukraine
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Adam Mycyk
Adam Mycyk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Adam has more than 30 years of experience advising both Ukrainian and international companies, banks, investment banks and a range of other financial institutions and investors on structuring and implementing debt and equity inward investments involving privatizations, mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures and on complex cross-border commercial and financing transactions and transaction on international capital markets. His experience and client base spans financial institutions and services, consumer products, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, and agriculture sectors. Adam is a US qualified lawyer, admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia (1993) and in Maryland (1991). Since relocating to Kyiv in 1994, he has led numerous acquisition and joint venture transactions and managed a variety of due diligence projects from different sectors. · Capital Markets
Evgenia Prudko
Evgenia Prudko is a legal advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office with major focus on antitrust and competition issues, including obtaining merger clearance, unfair competition, advising on concerted practices. She provides clients with comprehensive advice in order to avoid antitrust and competition issues or investigations. Her antitrust practice also includes providing tailored compliance advice as well as conducting audits and risk assessments. Evgenia helps clients achieve their objectives by incorporating antitrust and competition law in their business practices. Evgenia has almost 20 years of experience in advising both international and local clients on competition, compliance, corporate, M&A, and employment issues. She provides legal support to the clients on corporate restructurings, problematic individual dismissals, transfers of businesses, employment restructurings, including outsourcing projects, joint-venture establishment etc. Her client base includes large national and international corporations, companies in food, feed and agribusiness, financial institutions and private equity firms. Evgenia is a regular speaker at various events and conferences in and outside of Ukraine as well as an author of publications. Evgenia is a Deputy Head of the Law Committee and Committee for Feed, Food and Agriculture by the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. · Antitrust / Competition
Igor Davydenko
Igor Davydenko is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office. He has proven experience in legal practice, including the coaordination of legal issues in major financial and commercial organizations. Igor has been working in the Kyiv office for the last 30 years. During this period he was involved in more than 300 multimillion complex transactions in different areas in Ukraine. He concentrates on matters of Ukrainian tax, civil and corporate law. · Business Structures and Tax Planning
Igor Svitlyk
Igor Svitlyk is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a member of Dentons’ Corporate Practice Group. Specifically, Igor specializes in the Life Sciences, Privacy, and Anti-Corruption Compliance. Igor regularly advises foreign pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations with respect to various legal issues and represents their interests before Ukrainian state authorities. · Life Sciences
Ihor Mehedynyuk
Ihor V. Mehedynyuk is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office. He advises clients on various matters of Ukrainian securities law, land and real estate law, corporate law, M&A and transaction structuring, secured transactions, tax law and employment law, as well as on matters of Ukrainian law governing specific Ukrainian industries and sectors, including specifically the mining of mineral resources, telecommunications, TV and radio broadcasting, agriculture and industrial construction. · Securities
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. · Energy
Natalia Levchuk
Natalia Levchuk is a senior associate in Dentons' Kyiv office. Natalia has more than 15 years’ experience in legal matters related to real estate, environment, land, agriculture, energy and natural resources, as well as privatization. She advises international and local companies, including energy companies, natural resources producers, international developers, FMCG companies, and financial institutions on the acquisition of real estate and land, lease and preliminary lease agreements, and transaction structuring. She provides legal support to the construction sector, including drafting and negotiating agreements and providing legal advice on regulatory and other issues. · Real Estate
Oksana Horban
Oksana Horban is a counsel at Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a registered patent attorney of Ukraine. Oksana has considerable experience (more than 15 years) in providing the full range of IP-related services. Oksana advises clients from a broad range of sectors on all aspects of the IP protection, specifically, she does trademark and patent filing and prosecution, drafts IP-related agreements, conducts IP due-diligence, represents clients before the Chamber of Appeals of the Ukrainian Patent and Trademark Office and Ukrainian courts. · Intellectual Property
Oleg Batyuk KC
Oleg Batyuk is the Ukraine Managing Partner and Head of the Ukrainian Corporate Practice in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is also Co-Chair of the Dentons Global Task Force on Ukraine Transformation. Oleg is one of the leading lawyers in Ukraine. He has substantial experience advising international and domestic clients on foreign investments in Ukraine, joint ventures, loan arrangements, banking regulations and transactions on international capital markets. Oleg has advised major international companies and financial institutions on key infrastructure projects in Ukraine. He has been engaged as an expert witness on Ukrainian legal matters in several high-profile litigation and arbitration proceedings in England, USA, Canada and Sweden. · International Arbitration
Oleg Kuchanskyy
Oleg Kuchanskyy is a counsel in Dentons' Kyiv office. As a member of the Global Real Estate Group, Oleg has extensive experience advising on the development projects of international companies in Ukraine. He also specialises in general corporate and commercial law. Oleg has gained considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions, participating in a number of deals involving international banks. · Real Estate
Valeria Tarasenko
Valeria Tarasenko is a tax advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a member of the Firm’s Tax Group. Valeria specializes in tax law and settlement of tax disputes. She advises national and multinational companies on tax structuring and tax planning, assessment of tax risks, cross-border taxation and application of international tax treaties as well as on matters related to OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Valeria has extensive experience in solving tax disputes and supporting tax litigations in all phases of litigation process. Valeria was also heading successfully tax practice in one of the leading litigation law firms in Ukraine, and building its tax practice from scratch. · Tax
Volodymyr Monastyrskyy
Volodymyr Monastyrskyy is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office and a member of Dentons’ global corporate, real estate, antitrust, employment, energy, infrastructure, and life sciences groups. He has a vast experience in international and local M&A transactions, setting up joint ventures, development of real estate, infrastructure, and energy projects, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, commercial and trade, financing, taxation and operation of financial institutions. Volodymyr also heads the firm’s employment practice in Ukraine. · Corporate / M&A