Ilyashev & Partners has been appointed Ukrainian legal advisor on regulatory issues concerning introduction by the International Air Transport Association of the EasyPay payment system.

Vadim Medvedev has been promoted to Partner at Avellum in Ukraine.

Sayenko Kharenko has acted as legal counsel to Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei GmbH concerning the squeeze-out of minority shareholders from PrJSC Kyivsky Zavod Shampanskikh Vyn “Stolychniy.”

Maksym Nazarenko has been promoted to Partner within Sayenko Kharenko's Antitrust & Competition practice.

Zoryana Sozanska-Matviychuk has been promoted to Partner and appointed as Head of M&A at Redcliffe Partners in Ukraine.

Nobles has advised Western NIS Enterprise Fund on loans to Urban Space 500 and Veterano Brownie made within the Impact Investing Program.

Sayenko Kharenko, working with global counsel Allen & Overy, has provided Ukrainian advice to Greenyard N.V. on the EUR 120 million sale of 100% shares of its horticulture business to independent investment group Straco BVBA. Clifford Chance, working with Redcliffe Partners in Ukraine and TGS Baltic in Latvia, advised the buyers.

Olena Omelchenko has made Partner at Ukraine's Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm — the first lawyer to make partner at the firm since 2006.

Nobles has advised Wendeln, a privately-held German company, on the sale of a grain silo and processing facility near Kherson, in Ukraine.

Redcliffe Partners and Bird & Bird have advised the EBRD and the Clean Technology Fund on a EUR 15 million senior secured long-term loan to The I&U Group. Asters reportedly advised the I&U Group on the deal.

The Ukrainian office of Wolf Theiss and the Estonian office of Sorainen have advised Rent24, an international co-working and co-living solutions company headquartered in Germany, on its entrance into the Ukrainian market in the form of a joint venture with Ukraine's Chasopys Group.

Sayenko Kharenko has advised the EBRD, ProZorro.Sale, and Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade in regard to the Open Government project in Ukraine, involving the implementation of e-government solutions based on the ProZorro concept.

Eterna Law has advised Yuzhne Energy, the Ukrainian subsidiary of a Lithuanian company, on its investment in renewable energy systems and the development process of 72 megawatt wind power plant project in the Odesa Region of southwestern Ukraine.

Sayenko Kharenko has acted as a Ukrainian legal counsel to the EBRD on its provision of a four-year UAH-denominated loan equivalent to EUR 10 million to LLC OTP Leasing.

Sayenko Kharenko and Avellum have advised on the sale by the Naspers Group of a controlling interest in online marketplace operator EVO Group to Rozetka.

Dentons has acted as legal counsel to DTEK Renewables in relation to the implementation of the Orlovka Wind Farm project in Ukraine, in particular by providing legal support during contract negotiations with Vestas, a supplier of the equipment and the EPC contractor for the project.

Sergii Shkliar, one of the original founders of Arzinger in Ukraine, has returned to the firm as Founding Partner following three years as Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine on Executive Service matters.

On November 30, 2018, the European Commission, on behalf of the EU, approved the disbursement of the first EUR 500 million of the new Macro-Financial Assistance program to Ukraine, which amounts to a total of EUR 1 billion. Aequo advised European Commission on the deal.