Antika Advises AWT Bavaria on Business Restructuring and Construction

According to Antika, "AWT Bavaria, the official importer of BMW and MINI in Ukraine, is implementing a business restructuring project. The main purpose of the project is to establish a modern and highly-effective management system, as well as to increase corporate security and comfort in client servicing by commissioning new administrative, sales, and technical capacities, structuring the business into distinct and specific areas, establishing a protected structure of assets, etc."

A group led by Antika Partner Andrey Kuznetsov worked on corporate, tax, labour and other aspects of the project, with Partners Alexander Burtovoy and Sergii Korniienko engaged during the concept development of the AWT's business restructuring. Sergii Korniienko also was responsible for work in corporate law, including the obtaining of necessary permits, while Senior Associate Alexandra Fedorenko focused her work on labor and tax issues.

According to Antika, "it is worth mentioning that one of the outstanding elements of the project was successful completion and commissioning of the importer center, the first start-up complex of first stage development, in the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region, as well as the acquisition of the right of ownership on the completed object by the asset management company belonging to the client’s group of companies. The new importer center meets all corporate standards and requirements of vehicle producers and will be the largest platform for the exhibition, sale, and original technical maintenance of BMW, Rolls Royce, and MINI on the territory of Ukraine. A team of lawyers, among them Senior Associates Vasyl Sheretko and Alexander Tretiakov and Associate Inna Koval, all led and managed by Partner Alexander Burtovoy, were engaged in the fulfillment of this task. The grand opening of the facility was held on August 31, 2017."

Antika’s Managing Partner Alexey Kot supervised and coordinated the lawyers working on the project.