Sayenko Kharenko has advised a private investor from Kazakhstan, Arif Babayev, on his acquisition of a controlling shareholding in PJSC “Region-Bank”. The deal closed in January 2017.
According to Sayenko Kharenko, the firm "provided full transactional support of the deal, including advice on corporate law and regulatory matters." The firm reports that its "scope of work included legal due diligence of the bank, deal structuring and drafting transactional documents, legal support of early repayment of subordinated debt, obtaining approval of the National Bank of Ukraine for acquisition of qualifying shareholding in the bank, legal support of the bank’s charter capital increase and general shareholders meeting."
The Sayenko Kharenko team was supervised by Partner Michael Kharenko and included Counsel Oleksandr Nikolaichyk and Associates Kateryna Zhebanova, Mykhailo Grynyshyn, and Dasha Dashkevych.
