Sayenko Kharenko has provided Ukrainian legal counsel to Deutsche Bank on a EUR 529 million facility extended to Ukraine under a World Bank guarantee.

"You know that there are quite a lot of things happening in Ukraine now,” says Vadim Medvedev, Partner at Avellum in Kyiv, who begins by talking about the recent election in April of Volodymyr Zelensky to the Ukrainian Presidency. “Everyone is looking forward to the inauguration to see what changes in policies may follow, Medvedev says, while pointing out that, although Zelensky has asked for May 19, the specific date has not been scheduled yet. He explains that outgoing President Petro Poroshenko was considered to be a “'business-as-usual' candidate,” but the business community is uncertain about Zelensky’s plans, “as there are a lot of gray areas and open issues with respect to his policies and programs — it’s simply unclear.”

Ukrainian lawyer Alla Kozachenko has joined DLA Piper's global partnership, bringing the total number of partners in the firm's Kyiv office to eight.

DLA Piper has advised Perion Network on its EUR 3.75 million acquisition of Septa Communications LLC, also known as Captain Growth, a Ukrainian start-up which applies AI-driven technologies to marketing. Baker McKenzie reportedly advised the sellers: Co-Founders Dmytro Plieshakov and Dmytro Bilash.

CMS lawyers Andrea Potz in Austria, Jelena Nushol in Croatia, Marek Oleksyn and Lukasz Dynysiuk in Poland, Petra Corba Stark and Michal Hutan in Slovakia, and Tetyana Dovgan in Ukraine have been promoted to the firm's partnership as part of its 2019 global promotion round.

Switching to electric vehicles has become a trend, in Ukraine as across the world. Few are aware that, according to 2017 InsideEVs (the global platform that analyzes electric vehicle markets) Ukraine is among the top ten countries with the highest rate of electric vehicle sales.

Integrites is providing pro bono legal advice to the Lifelover charitable foundation, which organizes leisure and recreational activities for senior citizens and provides assistance.

Ilyashev & Partners has successfully represented Lifelong Meditech Private Limited, an Indian manufacturer of sterile hypodermic single-use syringes, in the anti-dumping investigation on imports into Ukraine of syringes originating from the Republic of India, the Republic of Turkey, and the People’s Republic of China.

In The Corner Office we ask Senior and Managing Partners across Central and Eastern Europe about their unique roles and responsibilities. The question this time around: “What is the one skill, ability, or characteristic that fresh law school graduates in your country most commonly lack?”

Eterna Law has persuaded the Supreme Court of Ukraine to recognize and enforce a disclosure order issued by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales on behalf of client Soufflet Negoce SA.

K&L Gates and Integrites have advised NBT on the financing documents for Segment 2 of Ukraine’s Syvash Wind Power Project, with commitments of an additional EUR 107.6 million of further senior debt coming from the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (EUR 30 million), Proparco (approximately EUR 42 million), Finnfund and IFU (EUR 15 million each), and the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (EUR 5 million). The lenders were advised on Ukrainian law by Redcliffe Partners and on English law by Clifford Chance.

Elena Volyanskaya, who heads the Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice at Ukraine's LCF Law Group, has been promoted to Partner at the firm.

Former Jeantet Partners Illya Tkachuk and Igor Krasovskiy have joined Integrites in Kyiv, bringing the total number of partners to 19 across the firm's six offices.

Everything is quite simple. Marriage registration between foreigners in Ukraine is a legal, easy, fast and fairly cheap procedure.

Sayenko Kharenko has advised VR Capital on the acquisition of 50% of shares in Nicken Holdings LTD from Investment Capital Ukraine. Avellum reportedly provided transactional support to Investment Capital Ukraine on the sale.

Sayenko Kharenko has advised VR Capital on the establishment of a joint venture with the Volterra Energy Group to develop solar power plant projects in Ukraine. Kinstellar reportedly assisted the Voltera Energy Group in drafting relevant transaction documents.

Baker McKenzie Kyiv has advised Septa Communications on its sale to Israel-based Perion Network Ltd.

On February 21, 2019, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (hereinafter – the "AMCU") adopted Recommendations on the Application of Competition Legislation in Vertical Practices on Supply and Marketing of Medicines (hereinafter – "Recommendations").