Serhiy Piontkovsky heads the Firm’s Energy, Chemicals, Mining and Infrastructure and Real Estate practice groups. Mr. Piontkovsky is highly recommended by Chambers Europe 2009, and is listed among the top five practitioners for land-related law by Ukrainian Law Firms: A Handbook for Foreign Clients 2007-2009. Mr. Piontkovsky is highly recommended by PLC Which Lawyer? for matters related to corporate real estate.

Practice Focus

Mr. Piontkovsky is heavily involved in major privatizations projects held in Ukraine within the steel, mining, energy and industrial sectors. He has acted in numerous mergers and acquisitions transactions, including acquisition of Ukrainian enterprises in privatization process — particularly those via commercial tenders organized by the State Property Fund. In the real estate sector, Mr. Piontkovsky represents major international hotel chains, developers, construction companies, investment funds, embassies, religious organizations and private investors on various Ukrainian law issues related to property pre-lease and long-term leasing, acquisition of land lease rights, construction, design and letting.

Representative Legal Matters

• Represented Mittal Steel in the acquisition through a privatization tender of a 93.02 percent stake in “Kryvorizhstal” — the largest Ukrainian and one of the few remaining vertically integrated steel mills in Europe — for USD4.8 billion. This is the largest privatization project in Ukraine to date. 
• Advised Yaroslaviv Val, a Kyiv-based leading real estate developer, on various management matters of a 5-star hotel property to be operated by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. 
• Advised ITT Investment Group on the management matters of a 4-star hotel, as a part of the mixed-use complex in Kyiv, to be operated by InterContinental Hotels Group under the Crowne Plaza brand. 
• Advised Gooioord B.V., the Dutch developer, on the disposal of a commercial property portfolio in Kyiv with the total area of 14,000 sq m. 
• Advising Aerosvit, a major Ukrainian airline, in connection with the proposed construction of a terminal in Boryspil airport, including land lease and property management agreements. 
• Advising a joint-stock commercial Bank Forum, its shareholders and financial advisor with respect to sale of 60 percent + 1 share to Commerzbank, Germany’s second largest bank.

Admission

New York~United States (1999)
Ukraine (1992)

Education

Harvard Law School  (LL.M.) (1999)
Moscow State Institute of International Relations  (J.D.) (1992)