Asters has advised Withine Investments LTD, a subsidiary of Ukrainian industrial and investment group Smart Holding, on the sale of JSC Unex Bank to Dragon Capital Investments Limited and Ivan Svitek.
Closing is planned for the first quarter of 2021, pending regulatory approval. The parties did not disclose any financial details.
Asters' team included Senior Partner Armen Khachaturyan and Senior Associate Maksym Tereshchuk.
Asters could not provide additional information on the deal.
Editor's note: After this article was published, Aequo informed CEE Legal Matters that it advised the buyers on the deal. According to the firm, the deal closed on April 15, 2021, following the approvals of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and the National Bank of Ukraine. The firm's team included Partners Yulia Kyrpa and Sergiy Denisenko, Counsel Bohdan Dmukhovskyy, Senior Associates Mykhaylo Soroka and Yevgen Blok, and Associates Anna Potapova, Olesia Mashtaler, and Yevheniia Chernetsova.
