Lord Goldsmith QC of Debevoise & Plimpton and a team from Akin Gump have represented Russian state-owned oil company PJSC Tatneft in its successful appeal in the English Court of Appeal from a summary judgment decision of the English High Court, allowing the case to proceed to trial.

The commercial legal markets of Central & Eastern Europe didn’t appear automatically. They didn’t develop in a vacuum. They were formed, shaped, and led, by lawyers – visionary, hard-working, commercially-minded, and client-focused individuals pulling the development of CEE’s legal markets along behind them as they labored relentlessly for their clients, their careers, their futures. 

Dentons Kyiv has acted as Ukrainian law counsel to Zeo Alliance, an international software developer, on various Ukrainian law issues related to the company’s business structure in Ukraine.

Ilyashev & Partners is representing the Ukrainian State Strategic Enterprise “Antonov,” which on October 12, 2017, filed a motion in the Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv for enforcement of a judgment delivered by the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry awarding more than UAH 32 million to Antonov from the Libyan Executive Authority for Special Flights.  

Vasil Kisil & Partners has successfully represented the interests of Imperial Tobacco Production Ukraine in a dispute with Ukrainian tax authorities.

On October 12, Olga Balytska joined PwC Legal in Ukraine as Head of the firm’s Real Estate practice.

The National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") has significantly simplified its rules for attracting cross-border loans by Ukrainian borrowers from international financial institutions ("IFI"), such as, among others, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and International Finance Corporation.

Ilyashev & Partners has advised the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH concerning the structuring of relations with the beneficiaries of technical aid provided by the German government within the framework of the “Strengthening Social Infrastructure for Absorption of IDPs” project.

Sergiy Gryshko, Taras Kachka, Viktor Muravyov, and Yuriy Rudyuk have been placed on the list of arbitrators required by Articles 306 and 307 of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement by Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.

Everlegal has advised UDP Renewables, a Ukrainian developer of renewable energy projects, on the development of its 6 MW Dymerska Solar Power Plant.

Aequo has advised Dragon Capital Group on its acquisition of the Prime and Eurasia business centers in Kyiv from BTA Bank, Ukraine. Sayenko Kharenko advised the sellers on the deal.

Gestors has successfully represented the interests of PJSC Donetskoblgaz in a dispute with the mayor of the city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.

Avellum has acted as Ukrainian legal advisor to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine on its USD 3 billion, 15-year, 7.375% Eurobond issue, which was combined with a cash tender offer to the holders of the outstanding Eurobonds due 2019 and 2020. White & Case advised the Ministry of Finance on matters of English and American law, while Sayenko Kharenko (on Ukrainian law) and Latham & Watkins (on American and English law) advised joint lead managers BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan Securities plc.

Asters has advised the ViDi Group on the restructuring of debt belonging to group companies ViDi Autocity Kiltseva and LLC ViDi Autocity from JSC Oschadbank, implemented in accordance with Ukraine's "On Financial Restructuring" Law.

Baker McKenzie's Kyiv office has supported Ukrenergo in implementing a corporate governance reform to institutionalize the supervisory board and ensure that the company's upgraded management structure is in line with OECD guidelines.

CMS has advised M.V. Cargo in respect of two parallel loans, totaling USD 74 million, made available to it by the EBRD and the IFC to partly finance M.V. Cargo’s construction of a new modern grain terminal in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Yuzhni capable of handling up to 5 million tons of grain annually.

In The Corner Office, we invite Senior and Managing Partners at law firms from across the region to share information about their careers, management styles, and strategies. For this issue, we asked them to describe their least favorite part of their jobs. 

Redcliffe Partners, working alongside Clifford Chance, has acted as legal counsel to the EBRD and the IFC in connection with their extension of two parallel senior secured loans to M.V. Cargo to finance the construction of a new private grain terminal in Ukraine’s Black Sea commercial port, Yuzhny.