As the first global law firm to establish an office in Ukraine, our Kyiv lawyers advise clients on all aspects of doing business in the country, assisting more than 550 multinational companies and financial institutions on their domestic and international operations.
As market leaders in Banking & Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, our strength is advising clients on complex transactions, but we also bring expertise and experience to a range of other clients matters.
Our Employment practice, ranked Band 1 by Chambers Europe, is part of one of the largest employment practices in the world, advising clients on employment agreements, employee handbooks, executive termination agreements, employee benefits plans, personnel policies and collective agreements, as well as handling dispute resolution and trade union matters.
For years our Real Estate practice has been at the forefront of the real estate and construction expansion in Ukraine, providing guidance on development and construction, leases and property mortgages, property investment financing, structuring international real estate transactions, and real estate sales and acquisitions.
Our Intellectual Property team helps clients register, protect and enforce their IP rights on products and services marketed in Ukraine, providing strategies to discourage counterfeiting.
We also advise on ground-breaking Private Equity transactions in the Ukraine, evaluating debt push-down structures, local regulation of financial assistance and other corporate and regulatory issues associated with structuring a successful buyout.
Our German desk assists clients from the DACH region with their investments and business activities in Ukraine. Our DACH desk lawyers provides you with full legal support in German. We understand the risk appetite and risk-mitigating approach required under German, Swiss, Austrian and EU law when doing business in Ukraine. The head of our German desk, Ario Dehghani, is a German lawyer with eight years of experience in assisting DACH clients with their business activities in Ukraine.
We also provide local and global advice in the following areas:
