In The Corner Office we ask Managing Partners across CEE about their unique roles and responsibilities. The question this time around: How do you do performance reviews, and how important are they to the planning and management of the firm?”

The intellectual property of the company is an important component of its value thereof, and when speaking about a startup, the intellectual property at the initial stage is probably the only asset possessed by a company or entrepreneur, creating a new project.

Ukrainian lawyer Yevgeniy Solodko has merged his white collar criminal defense boutique with Sayenko Kharenko.

Baker McKenzie's Kyiv, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Zurich offices have advised Bayerische Landesbank on a EUR 180 million loan facility to Primorskaya-1 and Primorskaya-2 Wind Electric Plants — members of the DTEK Renewables group — for a 200 megawatt wind power plant in the Zaporizhzha region of Ukraine.

Asters has advised JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine's public railway company, on a USD 500 million Eurobonds offering of 8.25% notes due July 2024. Dechert provided advise to Ukrzaliznytsia on English law matters.

On June 20, 2019, the Dentons, CMS, and Everlegal law firms, working with global accounting network Baker Tilly and Ukraine's IKNET, which implements, manages, and guides investment projects in the energy industry, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to create GetMarket, an open online platform for green projects.

Ilyashev & Partners has successfully represented British company JKX Oil & Gas PLC before the Kyiv Court of Appeal in its claim to have an award of over USD 12 million from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in London recognized and enforced in Ukraine.

Sayenko Kharenko has advised Huhtamaki Foodservice Ukraine, a subsidiary of Huhtamaki Oyj, the world’s largest packaging manufacturer for foodservice, regarding the launch of production in Ukraine.

Sayenko Kharenko has represented the interests of Kyivguma LLC, a Ukrainian producer of rubber caps for medical purposes, in an anti-dumping investigation related to imports of rubber caps originating in Poland and China for medical purposes.

Former Arzinger Partner Markian Malskyy has left the firm after being appointed Head of the Lviv Regional State Administration by the President of Ukraine.

Sayenko Kharenko is reporting that it is in negotiations with Ukrainian lawyer Yevgeniy Solodko about potentially joining SK and merging his team with SK’s criminal law practice. ”The most critical point in the negotiation process is verifying the absence of any conflicts of interest and [conducting] thorough KYC checks of each client,” SK stated.

The team of the intellectual property practice of INTEGRITES prepared a compilation of relevant news in the field of protection of IP rights for the second quarter of 2019.

Integrites, working with the UK's Trinity LLP law firm, has advised Norway's Scatec Solar (Norway) on all aspects of the financing and construction of six photovoltaic plants in Ukraine worth a total of EUR 209 million.

Eterna Law has advised Lithuania's Modus Group on its third investment in Ukrainian renewable energy sources involving a 13 megwatt renewable energy sources project in West Ukraine.

Vasil Kisil & Partners has advised the Pharmagate Kyiv Office on the acquisition of an office in Jack House, a business complex in the Kyiv city center.

Ilyashev & Partners has successfully represented the interests of the Interfom Group of companies regarding the procedure for revising safeguard measures related to flexible cellular slabs, bricks, and sheets made of polyurethane foam.

Slava Vlasov has replaced retiring Camiel van der Meij as Leader of Tax and Legal Services at PwC in Ukraine.

Sayenko Kharenko has acted as Ukrainian legal counsel to BNP Paribas and Goldman Sachs International, the joint lead managers of Ukraine’s new benchmark EUR 1 billion Eurobond issue. Avellum advised the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine on the issuance.