Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has provided pro bono legal advice to the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice regarding the implementation of a pilot public-private partnership project involve the construction of a new pre-trial detention facility in Kyiv and and a hospital in Lviv.
The Ministry of Justice, working with other Ukrainian government and local authorities and the Norwegian Correctional Service, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for the purposes of developing and implementing the Project. In early February, the Ministry initiated the call for proposals on cooperation from investors in accordance with the Law On Public-Private Partnership.
The EPAP team was led by Partner Roman Stepanenko, who explained that: "Currently, our team is involved in PPP projects in several post-Soviet jurisdictions, and previously used to work on the foundation of PPP regulatory framework in Ukraine. For that reason, we offered our knowledge and expertise to the Ministry of Justice and the National Reforms Council for initial legal analysis of this project. We believe that the project whenever implemented will be a pilot one lightning up the way for new social and infrastructure initiatives."
Stepanenko was supported by Senior Associate Kateryna Oliynyk and Associate Oleksii Latsko.
