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group and Baltic Business Group) advised a range of national leaders — producers and traders on international arbitrations, especially GAFTA and FOSFA, as well as LMAA. Clients have traditionally instructed its corporate and tax teams on trade, M&A and related disputes. The client list includes Artis-Agro Export, EFKO, Ukrenergy Trade. Partner Eugene Blinov has a substantial track record of specialized arbitrations in his professional profile.
acts in a range of commercial disputes, debt recovery litigation, bankruptcy proceedings, advises on specific land, tax and corporate matters. Managing partner Ihor Melnyk is a recognized name for sector specific advice. Mykola Struts is known for his bankruptcy focus. Selected clients are Mriya Agro Holding, Creative Group, Cygnet Agrocompany, PJSC Ilyichevsk Oil and Fat Industrial Complex, Odesa Fat and Oil Plant, Nash Kraj.
ILF (Inyurpolis Law Firm) is the Kharkiv regional market’s leading counsel that significantly sharpens the agrarian market of Southern Ukraine. The scope of multi-disciplinary team ranges from business structuring for further export activity, EU market entry and attracting finance; employment, unfair competition and IP, tax litigation, debt collection and other commercial and regulatory disputes. The innovative highlight of the firm is its pro bono support of the establishment of agro-food cluster in Kharkiv Region, where the firm represents 25 agrarian companies. ILF is the key counsel for sectoral M&A in the region, with a wealth of experience of supporting inbound and outbound investment. Among the consistent publishable clients are BASF, RIAL meat processing plant, AgTech Ukraine, Panorama Agro. Artem Naumov is a lead partner who thoroughly enhances the firm’s dedication to the agrarian sector.
First and foremost, KM Partners has a specific tax expertise in the agrarian sector. As a renowned tax practice, the firm became a point of choice for multinational agrarian players for representation in tax disputes, particularly the cancelation of tax notices and VAT refund. The vast tax practice also includes the extensive consultancy side. The firm has got involved lately in infrastructure projects. Partners Maxim Oleksiyuk and Alexander Shemiatkin participate in these projects. Alexander Minin, the most respected tax lawyer in the country, is highly regarded for tax advice in the agrarian industry.
Widely referred by market participants for its domestic agrarian clientele, IMG Partners
Integrites is a growing legal market force with a diverse offering for sectoral clients. In order to cover major business needs, over the last couple of years the firm has rapidly gathered vivid practitioners and completed its partnership with a slew of recognized names. The firm ensures support in corporate structuring, land acquisition and operations management, trade and project finance, tax and
regulatory advice, investments, port and infrastructure projects, trade and sales both inland and internationally, as well as resolution of relevant disputes. Notably, the firm demonstrated a dramatic increase in specific dispute work, and remarkable arbitration portfolio led in 2016 by highly active partner Olena Perepelynska. Renowned trade expert Ivanna Dorichenko joined the firm as a partner and head of its London office. She assisted the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine in the resolution of a trade dispute with UK buyers and Indian/Pakistan receivers due to allegations of inferior quality of shipped cargo. The banking team often advises on trade and project finance. Vsevolod Volkov advised Agrogeneration S.A. on EUR 10 million preexport trade finance facility from the financial division of Quadra Group. Other partners Oleksiy Feliv (land, real estate and infrastructure) and Svyatoslav Sheremeta (corporate) round off practice diversity. Highly-dynamic Ukrainian law firm AVELLUM has a solid corporate finance offering, and had a presence in several benchmark deals in the agrarian sector. The strong banking and finance practice has been involved in a range of high value finance and significant cross-borders restructuring mandates, working mainly on the lenders side. The team, guided by Glib Bondar, acted as a Ukrainian law counsel to the EBRD in connection with renewal of the USD 40 million secured syndicated pre-export loan facility to
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Education: LLM in EU law (King’s College London).
Practice Areas:
M&A, Real Estate, Corporate and Competition, Agro.
Sergiy BENEDYSYUK Head of Corporate and M&A, N&D Law Firm
Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English
Professional experience:
Regarded the brains of the team when it comes to complex matters with lots of nuances in various areas of law. Delivers results in the style of leading global law firms. Sergiy has gained a profound professional legal experience specializing in M&A, real estate, corporate and competition. He has provided comprehensive legal advice and assistance to foreign investors on issues pertaining to joint venture and business acquisition, brown-field and green-field investments, investments structuring and strategies in such areas as agro-sector real estate, industrial manufacturing. His services in the agro sector included legal support on acquisition of companies involved in crop cultivation, seed oil refining and others, setting up joint ventures for construction of grain terminals and other infrastructure objects, elaborating complex mechanisms for providing future crops into pledge as collateral for delayed payment for fertilizers. Prior to joining N&D Law Firm Sergiy occupied management positions with international and domestic legal firms and Ukrainian Government authorities. Sergiy holds LLM in EU law (King’s College London).
www.ndlaw.com.ua Tel.: +380 44 237 7250 s.benedysyuk@ndlaw.com.ua
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