IN UKRAINIAN LAW BY PRACTICE AREAS ⁄ INDUSTRIES Corporate and M&A the office advised on a number of high profile M&A projects, and expanded its recent transactional portfolio. The office is chosen by international majors and local business groups. Thus, the team advised DCH Group in the transaction of gaining full control over the chain of Karavan trading and entertainment centers via acquisition of stakes from the partners; advised Georgian Industrial Group on acquisition of a 29.29% stake in Ukrainian insulin producer JSC Indar from Polish biotechnological company Bioton S.A. The team often acts in the banking sector, and advised AHBB in a transaction on disposal by UniCredit of 99.9% held in PJSC Ukrsotsbank in exchange for a minority stake in ABHH. Galyna Zagorodniuk, partner, received strong endorsements for handling transaction work. Her focus includes manufacturing, life science, retail, FMCG. Both legal directors Alla Kozachenko and Illya Muchnyk are noted for transactions, general corporate work and securities. Margarita Karpenko, managing partner, supervised the team for many years. The reputed team of CMS Cameron McKenna showcased its growing transactional performance, and also offers its clientele day-to-day legal support in Ukraine. In the Ukrainian market the office stands out for stellar dedication to energy, wealth expertise in private equity, banks, agriculture and machinery. The busy transactional team advised MV Cargo on the USD 100 million joint venture with Cargill for the construction of a new grain terminal in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Yuzhny. As a stellar energy practice, the team advised NAFTA a.s. in connection with the establishment of a joint venture with Cub Energy Inc., an upstream oil and gas company.
LEADING FIRMS
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
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1. Mykola Stetsenko (AVELLUM)
Baker McKenzie Sayenko Kharenko AVELLUM AEQUO DLA Piper Ukraine CMS Cameron McKenna Dentons Asters Jeantet Kinstellar
OTHER ESTABLISHED PRACTICES LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Arzinger Eterna Law EUCON EVERLEGAL EY Ukraine ILF (Inyurpolis Law Firm) Integrites Redcliffe Partners Vasil Kisil & Partners Wolf Theiss
29 Lesi Ukrainki Blvd., Office 75, Kyiv, 01014, Ukraine Tel.: +380 67 325 9582, +380 44 228 0279 Fax: +380 44 285 5286 E-mail: office_law@amber-corp.com Web-site: www.amber-law.net
GOLDENGATE LAW FIRM
Business Center Saksagansky, Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine 70 Saksaganskogo Street, Tel.: +380 67 776 6130 E-mail: info@goldengate-law.com Web-site: www.goldengate-law.com
2. Vladimir Sayenko (Sayenko Kharenko) 3. Viacheslav Yakymchuk (Baker McKenzie) 4. Anna Babych (AEQUO) 5. Graham Conlon (CMS Cameron McKenna) The selection of firms and professionals in the table reflects the research carried out by the editorial staff of Yuridicheskaya Practika Publishing. It is based on a poll with market participants and submissions of the project portfolio provided by law firms. It remains a subjective view and implies no disparagement of any firm/ professional not mentioned here but which is, nevertheless, active in this field.
OTHER NOTABLE PRACTITIONERS
LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Oleg Batyuk (Dentons) Olha Demianiuk (Baker McKenzie) Yevheniy Deyneko (EVERLEGAL) Oleksiy Didkovskiy (Asters) Taras Dumych (Wolf Theiss)
The well-established CEE network enables benefits for regional mandates. The firm provided advice to DECAPTERUS S.A.R.L. on the EUR 175 million sale of Hamé to the food group Orkla. English law expertise is an advantage for cross-border mandates. Notably, the Kyiv-based corporate and private equity partner Graham Conlon received endorsements for strong general corporate expertise during reviews from peers. The key practitioners of the team are Olga Belyakova, Tetyana Dovgan and Vitalii Mainarovych.
COUNSELINK AMBER LAW COMPANY
WHO IS WHO
Dmytro Fedoruk (Redcliffe Partners) Ernest Gramatskiy (Gramatskiy & Partners) Margarita Karpenko (DLA Piper Ukraine) Armen Khachaturyan (Asters) Andrey Kolupaev (Lexwell & Partners) Alla Kozachenko (DLA Piper Ukraine) Andrei Liakhov (Sayenko Kharenko) Denis Lysenko (AEQUO) Oleh Malskyy (Eterna Law) Volodymyr Monastyrskyy (Dentons) Illya Muchnyk (DLA Piper Ukraine) Adam Mycyk (Dentons)
DMITRIEVA & PARTNERS
3 Dniprovska Naberezhna, Kyiv, 02098, Ukraine Tel.: + 380 44 553 7660 E-mail: office@dmp.com.ua Web-site: www.dmp.com.ua
ESQUIRES
40-X Hlybochytska Street, Kyiv, 04050, Ukraine Tel.: +380 44 337 7007 Fax: +380 44 337 7008 E-mail: info@esquires.legal Web-site: www.esquires.legal
Yuriy Nechayev (AVELLUM) Iryna Nikolayevska (Kinstellar) Alina Plushch (Sayenko Kharenko) Vadym Samoilenko (Asters) Svyatoslav Sheremeta (Integrites)
MORIS GROUP LAW COMPANY
8B Moskovska Street, Kyiv, 01010, Ukraine Tel./Fax: +380 44 359 0305 E-mail: info@moris.com.ua Web-site: www.moris.com.ua
WWW.UKRAINIANLAWFIRMS.COM
SERGEYEVS’ LAW OFFICE
11/6 Armiyska Street, Office 2a, Odesa, 65058, Ukraine Tel./Fax: + 380 487 37 7228 E-mail: office@srgv.com Web-site: www.srgv.com
Anna Sisetska (Vasil Kisil & Partners) Albert Sych (EY Ukraine) Illya Tkachuk (Jeantet) Valentyn Zagariya (Spenser & Kauffmann) Galyna Zagorodniuk (DLA Piper Ukraine) Anna Zorya (Arzinger)
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