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November 13, 2015

Wolf Theiss represented QBE on sale of its insurance operations in Ukraine

Canadian insurer Fairfax acquired the Ukraine business of Australian insurance company QBE. Wolf Theiss advised the sell-side. Following clearance with Ukrainian regulatory authorities and completion of other customary closing conditions, the transac…

November 10, 2015

Rule of Law instead of Rule of Figures?

On 6 November 2015 theIV International Central and Eastern European Investment Conferencewas staged in Kiev. The venue has been held by the CFA Society Ukraine. High caliber speakers from the region discussed recent insights of Ukraine’s percep…

November 2, 2015

Bankers Talks in Difficult Times

The 2015 Ukrainian Banking Forum, as arranged by CIS bankers, took place on October 29-30 in Kiev. The professional discussion revealed painful but nevertheless extremely important challenges bankers and its clients have been facing of late. In hi…

October 29, 2015

How to expand your business to a new level with the help of relationship capital?

In a modern business world business contacts have power almost everywhere. And the ability to grow relationship capital has been already considered so valuable that many well-known business schools dedicate whole learning courses to networking. In Uk…

October 27, 2015

Avellum Partners advised Bayer AG

Avellum Partners аdvised Bayer AG on corporate, contractual and employment issues related to the global spin-off of Bayer MaterialScience AG, which now operates under Сovestro AG name as an independent entity. Avellum Partners advised Bayer AG on st…

Ukrainian Healthcare Forum

Last week А7 Conferences with the support of Ministry of Health of Ukraine organized Ukrainian Healthcare Forum’15 that was held at InterContinental Hotel in Kiev. The Forum appeared to be the first bigges tplatform in Ukrai…

DLA Piper advised shareholders of Pharma Start

DLA Piper has acted as a legal counsel to shareholders of Pharma Start LLC in connection with sale of 100% stake in Pharma Start to Acino Pharma AG. The DLA Piper team provided shareholders of Pharma Start with full legal support of the transaction …

October 26, 2015

SYTNYK & PARTNERS advised Mann + Hummel

SYTNYK & PARTNERS advised Mann + Hummel on a broad range of Ukrainian corporate, financial, regulatory, real estate, labor and other matters pertaining to the worldwide acquisition of filter production business of Affinia. Mann + Hummel is major…

October 22, 2015

In September 2015 lawyers of International Legal Center EUCON defended the interests of JSC Ukrrichflot before the High Administrative Court of Ukraine.

A claim was filed by JSC Ukrrichflot to the STI in Podilskiy district of the Center Department of State Fiscal Service in Kyiv on recognition as unlawful and cancellation of decisions and requirements to apply penalties for charging not duly accrued …

October 12, 2015

Asters Advises on Ukrainian Merger Control Aspects in USD 70.5 billion Acquisition by Actavis of Allergan Pharmaceutical Company

Asters Law Firm provided legal advice on Ukrainian merger control matters, including obtaining of the merger clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, in connection with the acquisition by Actavis of control over Allergan, Inc. pharmaceut…

SYTNYK & PARTNERS Advises Ukraine’s Financial Regulators in Certain Financial Sector Priority Areas

SYTNYK & PARTNERS Attorneys at Law advises beneficiaries (the National Bank of Ukraine, the National Commission for Regulation of Financial Services Markets of Ukraine, the National Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine and the Minist…

SYTNYK & PARTNERS advises Robert Bosch GmbH in obtaining merger clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine

SYTNYK & PARTNERS Attorneys at Law advised Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) in obtaining a merger clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine in connection with indirect acquisition (through Robert Bosch, B.V. (Boxtel, the Netherla…

October 7, 2015

Integrites going West

Following its development strategy aimed to the West, Integrites International Law Firm announced the joining of three partners from Gide Loyrette Nouel. The three partners – Julian Ries PH.D., Oleksiy Feliv Ph.D., and Oleg Zagnitko Ph.D.&ndash…

October 6, 2015

The Ukrainian Bar Association held a business breakfast in Vienna

Followed by the speech of José Manuel Barroso, immediate Past President of the European Commission, who admitted that Ukraine makes enormous efforts to proceed the reforms, on 5 October the Ukrainian Bar Association held its business breakfast…

October 5, 2015

Avellum Partners advised Mohawk Industries, Inc.

Avellum Partners advised Mohawk Industries, Inc. in connection with obtaining merger control clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for the acquisition of the IVC Group. The estimated transaction value is USD1.2 billion, which is a comb…

The IBA Annual Conference opens in Vienna

The annual meeting of the International Bar Association (IBA) opened yesterday in the Austrian capital Vienna. The global venue gathers around 6,000 members of the legal profession as well as individuals from corporations, governments and regulators.…

October 1, 2015

EPAP Ukraine advised Nokia

The competition practice team at EPAP Ukraine has assisted Nokia Corporation in obtaining regulatory clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for the EUR 15.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. In April 2015 Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent …

September 30, 2015

Integrites opens its office in China

Integrites announces the opening of its China office in October 2015 – Integrites Guangzhou. Additionally, Integrites announces the expansion of dispute resolution practice in Russia and joining of four new lawyers under the leadership of the n…

September 29, 2015

Integrites and Statnikov & Partners team-up within one firm to create white-collar crime advocacy practice

Integrites International Law Firm announced accession of Statnikov and Partners Attorneys at Law Association, headed by Denis Statnikov, thus strengthening criminal and civil law practice areas. Denis Statnikov headed Statnikov and Partners Attorney…

September 28, 2015

Sayenko Kharenko – legal counsel to Oschadbank

Sayenko Kharenko acted as legal counsel to Oschadbank in respect to the bank’s reprofiling of two Eurobond issues in the amount of USD 1.2 billion. The terms of the reprofiling included an optional exchange mechanism unique for Ukrainian E…

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