The many crises that have arisen during the more than twenty years of my legal practice show that, if you remain professional, you will be in demand regardless of the market or jurisdiction in which you practice.

Investigations Into Price Hikes and Other Responses by the Ukrainian Competition Authority to the COVID-19 Crisis

Ukrainian renewable energy lawyer Svitlana Teush takes a look at the law which will define the cuts to be applied in Ukraine after extensive negotiation between government and the clean energy industry.

Acting on behalf of Challenge Shipping Ltd., the Odesa office of Ilyashev & Partners has secured the acceptance by Ukraine's State Ecological Inspection of a British protection and indemnity club's letter of undertaking as a sufficient security for a maritime claim.

Olena Kuchynska has been appointed the new Managing Partner of the Kinstellar’s Kyiv office.

Integrites has represented Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine in a dispute with a former energy supplier who filed a claim against one of the company's stores demanding that it be fined for changing its electricity supplier.

Redcliffe Partners has helped Saudi Basic Industries Corporation obtain merger clearance from the Ukrainian competition authority for the USD 69.1 billion sale of 70% of its shares by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia – the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – to the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. 

Vasil Kisil & Partners’ has successfully represented McDonald's Ukraine in a case against the Ukrainian League of Copyright and Related Rights.

Redcliffe Partners has advised the EBRD on an up to EUR 25 million term loan to be provided to Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise for working capital needs.

Aequo has advised Allrise Capital Inc. on the acquisition of the Chornomorets stadium in Odessa from Imeksbank. The sale, which was conducted by auction, was arranged by the Deposit Guarantee Fund.

Asters has advised the IFC on a USD 20 million loan to Nyva Pereyaslavshchyny, a Ukrainian pork producer.

Baker McKenzie has successfully defended the interests of Prandicle Limited, a company owned by former Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and former Naftogaz CEO Oleh Dubyna, in the English Commercial Court, against proprietary and unjust enrichment claims.

Investigations Into Price Hikes and Other Responses by the Ukrainian Competition Authority to the COVID-19 Crisis

The Ukrainian government’s conference rooms have been stuffier than usual lately, as policymakers and renewable energy industry representatives attempted to thrash out a compromise to reduce the financial burden left on the administration by a feed-in tariff incentive regime which drove almost 2 GW of generation capacity. The resulting retroactive cuts to payments, outlined below by Ukraine-based lawyer Svitlana Teush, have at least had input from both sides.

Kinstellar Kyiv Managing Partner Kostiantyn Likarchuk has testified as an expert on Ukrainian law on behalf of a successful defendant in a multi-billion-dollar UK dispute in the English Commercial Court.

Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm has successfully defended the interests of the Ukrainian pharmaceutical manufacturer Biopharma in a case involving the protection of competition in Ukraine's immunoglobulins market.

CMS has advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on a loan of approximately USD 13.9 million to Ukraine's Irshanska SES LLC.

In recent years, privatization has risen as a priority for the government of Ukraine. Fundamental to these efforts was the enactment of a law abolishing a list of over 1,000 state-owned enterprises that were not permitted to be privatized. This has removed the last major barriers for launching full-scale privatization.

Former Spensers Partner Nickolas Likhachov has joined Eterna Law as Head of Banking and Finance and Nataliia Korovyakovskaya has joined the firm as Head of Dispute Resolution.

AVELLUM researched how the coronavirus outbreak affected the plans of businesses to purchase or sell assets or companies in the next 6 to 12 months.