Baker McKenzie's Kyiv, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Amsterdam Offices have helped a consortium of German banks led by Bayerische Landesbank, and DTEK Renewables complete an ECA-backed finance transaction in the Ukrainian renewable energy sector aimed at financing the construction of the first stage of the Primorska wind electric plant in Ukraine.

Axon Partners, with offices in Kyiv and Lviv, and Kharkiv's Oksana Kobzar Law Office have announced that they will merge, operating going forward under the Axon Partners brand, and with offices in all three cities.

Ilyashev & Partners has represents PJSC Podilskiy Cement, PJSC Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine, PJSC Heidelbergcement Ukraine, and PJSC Ivano-Frankivscement in an anti-dumping investigation on imports to Ukraine of Portland cement clinker originating from the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, and the Republic of Moldova.

Kinstellar has advised the Investment Fund for Developing Countries, an agency of the Government of Denmark, in connection with a secured EUR 5.75 million loan facility to the Kness Group, a Ukrainian engineering, procurement, and construction group of companies. During the transaction, Kness relied on their in-house team.

Eterna Law has advised the Modus Group on its investment in the construction of a solar station in Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.

DLA Piper has advised Atlantic Agro Holdings and DUI Holding on the sale of Kyiv Atlantic Group to Agrolife and Eridon. Integrites acted as lead legal counsel to one of the sellers.

Many real estate experts and market players are upbeat about the positive trends on the Ukrainian real estate market, which is recovering after a significant downturn in 2013–2015. As the political and economic situation improves and the conflict in the south-west of the country stabilizes, foreign investors, attracted by market opportunities, are showing increasing interest in Ukraine.

ANK Law has advised Delta-Wilmar CIS on its agreement to cooperate with the Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration on the construction of a soybean recycling plant and a new terminal for the accumulation and storage of grain cargo and protein meal at the port of Yuzhny.

Sorainen and Baker McKenzie have advised Hewlett Packard Enterprise on its agreement to have Swiss-based ALSO Holding run its sales and services business in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. ALSO reportedly was represented by Cobalt.

Vasil Kisil & Partners has successfully represented Rost Agro, one of the largest seed producers and exporters in Ukraine, in a tax dispute.

The International Trade Law Practice team of Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm is advising the Ukrainian Association of Producers of Ferroalloys and other Electrometallurgy Products and Ukrainian producers of ferrosilicomanganese during a five-year review of anti-dumping duties – a so-called sunset review – on imports of ferrosilicomanganese from Ukraine and the People’s Republic of China.

Asters has advised the EBRD in connection with its up to USD 3.86 million financing to Energoresurs-Invest Corporation, a provider of insulated steel pipe solutions and manufacturer of wastewater plastic pipes and drainage systems.

Asters and the Ukrainian office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners have announced that they will merge on October 1, 2018, operating thereafter under a name which they have not yet disclosed.

Danevych.Law, a Life Sciences boutique, has opened its doors in Ukraine.

Aequo has successfully represented Pilot Group’s TV production companies in a dispute over the invalidation of transactions and the improperly acquired funds.

Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office has advised Canada on its acquisition of lease rights to a land plot in Kyiv for use by the Embassy of Canada to Ukraine. The lease term is 49 years.

On 2 August 2017 the state aid regime, based on the requirements of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (the "Association Agreement"), fully entered into force in Ukraine. Before this there were no state aid rules in place, and state support was distributed by the Ukrainian authorities as was deemed appropriate according to fast-changing industrial and regional policy objectives. The Ukrainian government has, traditionally, heavily supported producers in a number of so-called "priority" industries such as steel, fuel and energy, coal mining, aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding. In the energy sector alone, total budget revenue relinquished under special tax benefits allowed to undertakings accounted for up to 3.5% of GDP annually. The introduction of state aid control is expected to bring more transparency and higher standards in the management of public spending. In particular, all existing state aid programmes implemented before 2 August 2017 should be notified to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") until 2 August 2018, and all new state aid may be granted only following the prior approval of the AMC.

According to experts, Ukraine ranks fourth in the world in export of IT-products; i.e., software. It is not a rare phenomenon for Western counter-parties buying software to encounter a low level of pre-sale clearance. In other words, the Ukrainian sellers are not always able to confirm their title rights to the software they dispose of, potentially exposing foreign buyers to the risk of IP-related claims of third parties.