Amparo Consulting Group is a Ukrainian law company specializing in financial and tax law, commercial law, corporate and criminal law (commercial crimes).

Amparo’s lawyers have significant experience of consulting on tax planning and alternative methods of business shutdown, representation of client’s interests in government institutions and courts of all instances.

Amparo Consulting Group provides complex solutions through effective legal and financial consulting. Thanks to a large number of cases closed successfully, an individual approach to each client and deep understanding of the difficult conditions for business in Ukraine, we guarantee that we will find the optimal financial, tax and legal schemes for the successful running of business in Ukraine.

The reputation of Amparo Consulting Group as a reliable business partner and successful law company was confirmed in December 2009 by Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly in its rating of tax public transactions, where Amparo Consulting Group occupied the 1st place and 3 more places out of a total of 19.

AstapovLawyers International Law Group is one of the leading Ukrainian mid-size full service law firms. It is a very dynamic, client-oriented and solution-focused firm with a team of energetic, foreign educated young professionals that provide concise and practical legal advice in a cost effective manner, while not compromising on quality.

Since its foundation in 2002, the firm has grown rapidly and currently employs over 45 professionals. We are consistently named among the leaders of the market for quality, responsiveness and reliability of service as well as for the depth of our expertise. Being a full service law firm, our counsel may cover any aspect of doing business in Ukraine. We advise on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, employment, arbitration and litigation, banking and finance, taxation, foreign investments, antitrust, customs, international trade and WTO law.

In developing our practice we strongly rely on a team of carefully selected and well motivated young professionals who are responsive, solution-oriented, creative and committed. Most of our lawyers were educated at top-ranked European or US schools, and practiced with leading international law firms. Such advanced educational background and diversified experience arms our attorneys with vision as well as understanding of background and needs of our Western-based clients.

Our clients are major foreign and national market leaders, transnational blue chips, financial and strategic investors, private equity funds and investment banks. We possess profound understanding of a number of industries such as banking and insurance, oil & gas, energy, natural resources, telecoms, pharmaceuticals, real estate, PPP, construction and development, retail, production and others allowing us to provide value-added advice that corresponds to the business needs of our clients.

Our partners have experience working with such leading international law firms as Linklaters, Lovells, Herbert Smith, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, White & Case LLP, WilmerHale, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Dewey & LeBoeuf and others. We are consistently recognized and recommended by a number of international guides such as Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Hieros Gamos, Martindale & Hubbel, IFLR as well as several local publications like Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly, YurGazeta, Ukrainian Law Firms.

We are members of leading law associations like as Eurojuris International, International Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Asters, a Kiev-based law firm founded in 1995, is one of the leading law firms in Ukraine. The firm is among the most recommended law firms in Ukraine according to reputable international reviews The Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Who's Who Legal. For the last five years the Firm has been named among the best three law firms in Ukraine in the annual ranking Top 50 Ukrainian Law Firms conducted by Yuridicheskaya Practika (Legal Practice), Ukraine’s premier legal weekly. The firm is the first ever Ukrainian recipient of the prestigious Client Choice Award 2007 from the International Law Office.

Asters provides representation and legal advice in a broad range of areas, including banking & finance, capital markets, corporate, commercial, competition & antitrust, dispute resolution, environmental, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, restructuring & insolvency, securities, taxation, telecommunications. The аirm represents major international corporations and leading Ukrainian companies in such industries as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, banking and finance, consumer goods, food and distribution, automotive, shipbuilding, information technologies, media and advertising, insurance, telecommunications, construction and real estate, oil and gas, energy, steel, tobacco, packaging, sports and entertainments, etc.

The firm's clients include: Coca-Cola, Toshiba Corporation, News Corp., General Electric Energy, Boeing Company, Marathon Oil Company, Nokia Corporation, Adidas, Nissan Motor, Mitsubishi Corporation, Renault Ukraine, Damen Shipyards Group, Telenor ASА and others. We also represent the world’s leading financial institutions, including IFC, EBRD, Barclays Capital, ABN Amro, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, ING Bank N.V., WestLB, Lehman Brothers, SEB Group, Merril Lynch, UBS Investment Bank, Swedbank and others.

Asters regularly serves as local counsel to leading multinational law firms like Allen & Overy; Ashurst; Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Clifford Chance; Dewey & LeBoeuf; Eversheds; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Hogan & Hartson; Jones Day; Lovells; Linklaters; Norton Rose; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; White & Case and others.

Asters is the exclusive member from Ukraine in the World Services Group, one of the largest worldwide networks of law firms in the world. The firm is a member of the International Bar Association, European Business Association and American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

AVELLUM PARTNERS is a corporate finance law firm, which specializes in equity and debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and corporate and debt restructurings. We bring the most advanced Western methods and practices, which, coupled with our knowledge, broad industry experience, and unparalleled level of service, help our clients achieve best results in their business endeavors.

We strive to be the law firm of choice for clients with respect to their most significant corporate finance transactions, which require our special attention, extensive experience and industry expertise, and a high level of sophistication.

All of our attorneys have been trained at international law firms and possess a strong combination of Western experience, top-tier legal education, local knowledge of legislation and business conditions and culture. They speak common language with both Ukrainian and foreign clients.

In MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, we provide the following services:

• cross-border private and public acquisitions
• mergers, spin-offs, splits-offs, split-ups, and other types of reorganizations
• private equity acquisitions and disposals
• corporate restructurings
• corporate governance advice

In CAPITAL MARKETS, we provide the following services:

• IPOs on world’s major stock exchanges
• Private placements of securities by Ukrainian issuers
• Issuance of Eurobonds by Ukrainian issuers
• Corporate restructurings prior to private placements or IPOs

We take great pride in our unparalleled RESTRUCTURING experience, having advised over a dozen leading Ukrainian business groups. Our services in this area include:

• Corporate restructuring, including tax and corporate advice on optimal tax and corporate structures and implementation of restructuring
• Assisting clients in obtaining foreign investment license from the National Bank of Ukraine
• Preparation and filing to obtain approval from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
• Assisting clients in negotiations on debt restructuring
• Amending and expanding the security package
• Developing optimal tax structures for financial restructurings
• Advising clients on bankruptcy and restructuring procedures

In BANKING AND FINANCE, we provide the following services:

• Drafting and negotiation of bank guarantees
• Drafting and negotiation of various security instruments
• Preparation of escrow arrangements
• Drafting of loan agreements and revolving loan facilities
• Loan registration for non-Ukrainian lenders with Ukrainian authorities
• Legal advice to clients in connection with the terms and conditions of Eurobond placements

The success of our clients is our success and we support our clients every step of the way in structuring, negotiating, and consummating their transactions to help the growth of their business.

B.C. Toms & Co, a multinational law firm of Western and Ukrainian lawyers, was the first Western law firm to open a Kiev office in September 1991. Our foreign and Ukrainian lawyers have excellent qualifications from leading law schools and many years of practical experience. Commitment to quality is the cornerstone of our practice. Our experience in Ukraine, which spans over 18 years, gives us a significant advantage in understanding the many hidden problems and loopholes that need to be addressed to eliminate risks in transactions with real estate. In particular, we have extensive experience identifying and resolving the many Ukrainian law problems that can undermine the title or use rights to buildings, land plots and other real estate in Ukraine, and we have written numerous articles and advisory notes on this that are available to our clients. Our real estate law practice record includes having represented major foreign real estate investment funds and individual investors in numerous substantial Ukrainian real estate development projects, advising multinational companies on issues related to the privatisation of real estate, handling acquisitions of industrial, residential and agricultural real estate, including the simultaneous purchase of 39 land plots, for Ukrainian and international companies. We have also successfully handled some of the most important Ukrainian real estate litigations, including recovery of real estate for a foreign investor. B.C. Toms & Co has been consistently highly ranked for Ukraine by leading international and Ukrainian law directories.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP is an international law firm with over 400 attorneys in 12 offices located in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Mexico City, London (an affiliated partnership), Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw (a Polish partnership), Kiev, Almaty, Dubai and Beijing. Since its founding in 1902, Chadbourne has been dedicated to providing practical business solutions to a diverse range of clients in virtually all areas of law. Chadbourne is among the leading U.S. law firms in Central and Eastern Europe. Our lawyers not only have in-depth knowledge of the region, but also a significant amount of experience of both complex transactions and day-to-day legal issues that arise for companies doing business in the region, which enables us to anticipate and solve problems in this dynamic legal environment.

Chadbourne has one of the leading Ukrainian law practices. We have a very strong group of Ukrainian and expatriate lawyers with an extensive range of experience in Ukraine, and have worked together as a unified team for 16 years. Our Kiev office includes U.S.-, English— and Ukrainian-qualified attorneys. Our partners are consistently ranked among the top lawyers in Ukraine, and the Kiev office is recognized by legal directories including Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and IFLR1000 as a leading law firm in Ukraine, particularly in the areas of corporate/commercial and banking and finance.

The Kiev office of Chadbourne & Parke LLP provides a full range of legal services to clients on a variety of matters including mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, commercial law, banking and finance, corporate finance, securities, real estate, energy, tax, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, employment, insurance, intellectual property, antitrust and others.

Thoroughness, practicality, responsiveness, promptness — these are the principles that guide us in our delivery of services. And these are the reasons why our clients keep coming back to us.

The Consulting Company Status-D was founded in 2006 and has already gained extensive experience in the field of providing legal and consulting services to business entities as well as the confidence of its clients.

Status-D is a dynamically developing firm which is trusted by major enterprises, heads of small businesses as well as people who are just starting their ventures. The company works out the most suitable legal and consulting solutions for opening a firm or successful running of a business. Status-D offers legal security and efficient management to owners and top managers of enterprises. Solutions deriving from civil, commercial, corporate and tax law are wisely applied for ensuring the legal side of a company’s work.

The legal security of your business is ensured by detailed analysis and optimization of commercial structures, drafting and assessment of documents and legal support for contracts and transactions.

The company’s services include:

• registration, reorganization, liquidation of all types of enterprises;
• alternative methods of business liquidation;
• practice in the field of commercial, corporate and civil law;
• assistance in application for and receipt of all types of permits, licenses and certificates;
• permanent legal and accounting services for business;
• Investor Relations (IR), offshore zones;
• registration and maintenance of financial institutions, etc.
• dispute settlement, court litigation and fulfillment of court decisions.

Consulting Company Status-D applies an individual approach to each client, offering experienced legal professionals and high quality legal services as well as confidential contract-based relations.

Ernst & Young has been operating in Ukraine since 1991. It is the largest professional services firm in the country with more than 500 staff. We are a global firm with more than 144,000 specialists delivering integrated services in more than 140 countries. We combine the strength of our global network with our breadth of local knowledge and technical competence to deliver practical, commercially driven, and integrated tax and legal advice, including:

• M&A, including tax and legal due diligence, acquisition structuring, contract drafting, negotiation, and legal support throughout implementation;
• tax and legal structuring for inbound and outbound investments, including structuring to raise capital/financing in international financial markets;
• tax and legal structuring of joint ventures, including drafting and negotiation of contracts,
• real estate advice including acquisition, development, and disposal/operation;
• corporate structuring and restructuring, company incorporation, and advice on corporate and commercial law issues;
• non-performing loans portfolio: tax, legal, and financial structuring;
• corporate and personal tax planning and structuring, including international tax structuring, cross-border transactions, and transfer pricing;
• customs and indirect taxation;
• administrative litigation, including tax disputes;
• drafting and reviewing legal and tax aspects of commercial transactions and agreements;
• assistance with regulatory and currency control issues;
• labour and immigration law; and
• competition (antitrust) law, including M&A clearance.

Ernst & Young in Ukraine has three tax and legal partners and almost 60 tax and legal professionals.

Gide Loyrette Nouel is an international law firm founded in 1920 in Paris. Gide Loyrette Nouel now operates from 24 offices in 19 countries. The firm has more than 700 lawyers, including 111 partners, drawn from over 50 different nationalities.

In each of its offices in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and the Middle East, Gide Loyrette Nouel places its comprehensive knowledge of local markets, its regional expertise and resources of an international law firm at the service of its clients.

GLN’s commitment to the worldwide business community is reflected in our client base, over half of which are international or overseas-based private or quoted companies. GLN advises foreign investors, banks, international institutions, public authorities and leading local business groups on all legal issues arising in the course of their investment and commercial activities, and financial transactions.

The Kiev office of Gide Loyrette Nouel was established in 2006, and now offers a broad range of legal services by Ukrainian, French and German lawyers and legal consultants under the leadership of Partner and Head of the Kiev office Karl Hepp de Sevelinges. GLN Kiev offers services of outstanding quality to our international client base amidst an often unstable Ukrainian legal and regulatory environment. GLN Kiev advises both investors wishing to set up businesses in Ukraine and already existing companies. The Kiev office renders services covering all aspects of business life to its clients and is able to draft all forms of legal documentation in Ukrainian, Russian, English, German and French.

The expertise and practice areas of Gide Loyrette Nouel Kiev cover: Banking, Finance and Capital Markets; Bankruptcy Law; Corporate Law; Competition and Distribution; Employment Law; Energy/Environment; Intellectual Property, Media and Telecommunications; Litigation and Arbitration; Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatizations; Public Procurement; Public Private Partnerships; Real Estate and Construction; Taxation.

Golovan and Partners is an association of advocates registered by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in 1996. For over 10 years the firm’s advocates were reliable advisers to the interests of the Pravis law firm, which in 2007 changed its name to the Golovan and Partners law firm. At present the firm has offices in Donetsk (headquarters) and Kiev.

Golovan and Partners is well-known in Eastern Ukraine and, according to the Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly, is among the leading law firms in Ukraine. The firm is a member of the European Business Association (EBA). Golovan and Partners also received the certificate of prestige at the First Ukrainian law firms forum.

The firm’s specialization — in the fields of economic activities, corporate disputes, tax, contract law, corporate law, litigation, etc. — was highly evaluated by Ukrainian and foreign clients.

Golovan and Partners offers not only professionalism, but also strict adherence to high standards of ethics (Regulations of advocate ethics are approved by the Supreme Qualification Commission of Advocacy of Ukraine on 1 October 1999). Strict confidentiality of communication with the client is protected by law (Articles No. 9, 10 of the On Advocacy Act of Ukraine).

The firm’s team is guided by the most important principle of professional advocacy — the clients' interests are the top priority, and uses all its experience and comprehensive knowledge of legislation as well as in-depth understanding of Ukrainian business and the government sphere to be able to support these interests. Golovan and Partners` team always acts effectively and makes efforts to resolve tasks set with short deadlines.

Golovan and Partners makes every effort for new clients to feel as regular ones, while those clients that the firm has been consulting for many years are stable in their choice.

Main practice areas: intellectual property, M&A, banking & finance, dispute resolution (litigation and international arbitration), foreign economic activity, investment, contract law, customs and transport, real estate, antitrust, labor & employment, securities, tax, real estate, corporate.

Gramatskiy & Partners is known as a trustworthy firm which is successful in providing legal assistance in various areas since the time of its establishment. The extremely intensive evolution of benefits received from its services meant leading rates for Gramatskiy & Partners from the very beginning of its work. Now we are a firm with a well known name, its own traditions, which is highly respected in the legal community.

The secret of the firm`s success consists of strategic planning of service development, a modern HR policy and highly qualified staff. Our clients are sure to receive professional legal assistance with everything necessary for the best result in any complicated situation. We are proud to provide a complete legal service for every single client of ours.

Our experts provide advice on many different practice areas, including civil, commercial, corporate, tax law, foreign economic activity and foreign investments, copyright law, mass media legal support, labor disputes resolution, mediation, bankruptcy, securities and stock market legislation.

In addition, many of the firm`s clients have been successfully represented in public authorities and courts in civil, commercial, administrative and criminal cases.

One of our best features is the flexible and unorthodox way in which we look at a typical situation which involves the possibility of solving insolvable problems and guarantees the greatest level of security for our client`s activities.

Сommercial law, Administrative law, Construction, Export/Import and Customs Regulations, Real Estate, International and Domestic Arbitration and Litigation, Investment, Banking and Finance, Securities, Private and Public International law, Maritime law, Transportation, Capital Markets, Unfair Competition, Transactional and Intellectual Property.

The firm’s experts, experienced in providing law services, guarantee that they provide quality, effective advice to customers, reliable information on economic reforms in Ukraine, which will have an impact on the operations of companies. The firm’s lawyers have represented the Government of Ukraine as counsels in several investment arbitration cases involving Ukraine at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (Washington, DC).

Managing Partner: Dmitri I. Grischenko.

Partners: Sergiy A. Voitovich, Maya N. Lgova, Nick G. Atanasov, Igor B. Kovbasinskiy, Oleg I. Vysochinsky, Nataliya I. Boyko.

Languages: Bulgarian, English, Ukrainian, Russian.

Since its establishment in 1994 ILF (Inyurpolis Law Firm) has been oriented at providing comprehensive support for businesses.

As a result of successful implementation of such a concept ILF earned recognition within business community and is now among the leaders on the market of legal services in Ukraine.

Presently, ILF has two offices — one in Kharkov and one in Kiev and is a workplace to highly professional lawyers who specialize in various areas of law, including Civil and Business Law, Corporate Law, Taxes, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Anti-Trust and Competition, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property, Land Development and Construction, Constitutional Law and Elections. Moreover, the firm has a strong litigation practice and substantial experience in bankruptcy procedures and debt recovery.

ILF is a corresponding member of the Eurojuris International Network of law firms and a member of the European Business Association. The firm strictly complies with up-to-date international standards of law practice. The majority of its lawyers are members of Ukrainian and international law organizations such as Ukrainian Bar Association, International Bar Association, Ukrainian Association of Patent Attorneys, Ukrainian Association of Labor Lawyers, etc. ILF’s partners are recommended by Who’s Who Legal and Best Lawyers and ranked among TOP-25 Ukrainian Lawyers.

Our experienced lawyers and advocates work exclusively in the interests and wishes of our Clients, implementing the most informed and viable solutions. Sensitivity towards the peculiarities of the business of our Clients is the main principle while providing qualitative legal services. Cooperating with IMG Partners on a year to year basis, the majority of companies have become our regular clients, as they have been attracted by our professionalism, high level of personal responsibility and the effective and creative work of our team of lawyers. What we consider most valuable is the reputation of our Clients and we help to maintain it unblemished.

Our Company provides legal services on a higher level in leading business spheres in the following jurisdictions: litigation, antitrust and competition law; merger & acquisition; corporate and commercial law; real estate and construction; land entitlement; securities; labour law; practice of cooperation with government institutions and public law on state orders.

As an international law firm operating in the CIS region, INTEGRITES provides a wide range of professional legal services.

With the company’s Head office being located in Kiev, Ukraine, INTEGRITES’ activity extends over the entire CIS region. Benefiting from its location, the company constantly advises its clients on cross-border transactions with CIS and European companies, providing legal services to Ukrainian and international clients on CIS markets. INTEGRITES provides its clients with efficient instruments of financial and legal risks mitigation, tailored for their business activity in the following areas: finance, banking, construction, energy, oil & gas, IT, transport, infrastructure, etc.

INTEGRITES Trade Finance Practice is the core domain of the firm activities. Our Trade Finance Team has achieved a leading position in Ukraine and has been consistently recognized by our clients as the best choice in this area. Beyond this, INTEGRITES advises its clients on Corporate and M&A, Banking & Finance, Litigation & International Arbitration, Taxation, Antitrust and Competition, Intellectual Property, Energy, Oil & Gas, Real Estate & Construction, Management Labor & Employment and Risk Management issues.

Clients of INTEGRITES include major national and international companies, banks and other financial institutions, governmental agencies, as well as leading world export credit agencies.

INTEGRITES employs 72 lawyers. Total number of employees (including financial analysts and business consultants) is 124 profes-sionals.

J&L is a Danish managed law company with 21 employees, which provides legal, tax, accounting, and real estate advice on projects in Ukraine. J&L serves since 2003 approximately 75 clients with integrated legal, tax and accounting services. It serves often as regional counsel in Western Ukraine to establish business and provide practical legal advice for successful commercial activity.

Areas of practice:

• Commercial & Contract Law including bilingual drafting and negotiation of contracts;
• Corporate Law including structuring company according corporate policy with respect to accounting, customs and tax regulations;
• Mergers & Acquisitions drafting contracts, conducting due diligence, structuring the deal and providing tax consultation;
• Real Estate & Land Law finalizing acquisition or sales with comprehensive investigation and legal documentation;
• Construction Law including receiving building permissions on commercial estate and providing technical legal support for infrastructure;
• Agricultural Law turnkey legal farm support including pre-evaluation on land lease and farming infrastructure, tax and property structuring;
• Tax Law on investment activities taking foreign accounting practice into consideration and drafting legal documents to deduct costs;
• Labor and Employment Law including obtaining local working permissions and providing employment contracts.

Languages: English, German, Danish, Italian, Polish.

Our Clients are: agriculture, automotive, construction material developers, furniture, metal processing, retail, software, textile and wood industry.

Established in 1992, Konnov & Sozanovsky is one of the leading Ukrainian law firms with office in Russia and representative offices in Cyprus and Great Britain.

Konnov & Sozanovsky provides comprehensive legal assistance to national and foreign clients in the most popular business areas of law such as copyright and media law, competition law, corporate law, real estate, construction and land law, litigation, intellectual property law, commercial law and contracts, securities and financial institutions, tax law.

We practice an individual approach in each case, taking into consideration the peculiarities of a client’s business and his preferences. Our practice includes provision of legal assistance in various sectors of economy such as advertising and design, agricultural industry, banking, energy and power, food industry, insurance, investment and equity market, light industry, media and telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, publishing, real estate and construction, software, spirits industry, tobacco industry, trade and distribution, veterinary production.

Konnov & Sozanovsky cooperates with large international firms and is a full member of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (ACC), Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA), European Business Association (EBA, Ukraine), Association of European Businesses (AEB, Russia), International Trademark Association (INTA). Our lawyers are members of American Bar Association (ABA), International Fiscal Association (IFA), Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), International Trademark Association (INTA), International Bar Association (IBA), Ukrainian Patent Attorney Association, Ukrainian Advocate's Association (UAA). The firm’s lawyers hold executive positions in the committees of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (ACC) and European Business Association (EBA).

Moreover, Konnov & Sozanovsky is the exclusive member of the international legal network, First Law International (FLI), which consists of law firms in large global centers, allowing us to render superior legal assistance to clients located in more than 36 countries worldwide.

The firm is ranked among top 10 Ukrainian law firms according to the annual surveys by Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly (The Practice of Law) in 2009-1997. It is also the Law Firm of the Year in the field of IP according to the Ukrainian Legal Awards 2009-2007.

The firm is also recognized by major international legal reviews such as PLC Which Lawyer?, IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and Chambers Global. Specifically, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2009-2007 editions recommend Konnov & Sozanovsky among law firms in the sphere of IP. According to the Legal 500 (2009) Konnov & Sozanovsky is recommended among 1st tier law firms in the sphere of IP as well as among 2nd tier law firms in the sphere of tax law. IFLR 1000 acknowledges the firm in the sphere of M&A in 2009-2008. Annual editions of PLC Which Lawyer? 2009-2007 recommend Konnov & Sozanovsky in the sphere of IP, competition, corporate/M&A and private equity/venture capital.

The legal patent firm Koval & Partners is a limited company which was founded in 2003.

Since then our team of experienced patent attorneys and lawyers offers a full range of services in the area of protecting intellectual property to both Ukrainian and international companies and individuals. We are constantly broadening a range of our services, which includes IP consultancy, representing the interests of IP owners in arbitration courts of Ukraine, work with the international patents and much more. We are also broadening the geography of our activities by providing services to a growing number of international clients.

One of the principles of our work is maintaining strong professional relationships with the key stakeholders working in the area of intellectual property in Ukraine, such as the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Property, Ukrainian law firms and patent attorneys, professional associations. We also work closely with the patent attorneys in the United States, Canada, the European Union, in the Former Soviet Union states and other countries.

L.I. Group is an association of professional lawyers with an extensive experience, having a wide range of partnerships and business relationships with other law firms in all regions of Ukraine, as well as abroad.

Founded in 2002, L.I.Group has established strong, trust-based relations with the Clients and has proved itself to be a reliable partner, who protects business interests, strives for success, and ensures optimal results.

Our mission is to provide rapid, high-quality and complex services to the clients both in Ukraine and abroad. We have built a wide network of professionals throughout Ukraine, therefore we can provide legal assistance in every region of our country. Due to the considerable range of foreign partnerships we can render highly qualified services to international clients.

The key services of L.I.Group include support in procedures of bankruptcy (asset disposal, sanation, making an agreement of lawsuit, liquidation), Corporate law and international arbitration. Beside the abovementioned, our practices include: Commercial Law, M&A, Tax law, External Economic Activity, Agricultural Law, Real Estate, Labour law, Criminal Law, Restoring Solvency, Litigation, International Arbitration. Furthermore, L.I.Group introduces to its clients the following offers: legal assistance in debt relief, private arbitration, debt collection, deposit return, services of the attorney at law, collective services, support in establishment and maintenance of offshore jurisdictions, protection of property rights, creating a file of your partner, effective representation in courts.

Languages of the company are: Ukrainian, English, Russian and German.

Lavrynovych & Partners was founded in Kiev in 2004. Today, major global corporations, together with many Ukrainian financial and industrial groups, entrust us with their most demanding projects. How have we achieved this? From the outset, our strategy has been to recruit only the finest legal minds in Ukraine, recognized experts in their fields of expertise, with experience garnered from long hours of work within leading international as well as local law firms.

Our clientele has grown rapidly, as have the complements from our associates in response. New practice areas have expanded our range of expertise.

The major practice areas of Lavrynovych & Partners are: corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, privatization, banking and financial law, insurance law, due diligence, antimonopoly law and competition law, etc.

Our approach to our work is straightforward: treat each client, and each assignment, as unique. Lead the client through the legal issues in a rational way, and offer clear and practical advice at every step along the way. Provide “one stop” legal support, resolving in a comprehensive manner the full set of legal and tax issues any assignment may present.

Our legal advisors are well known internationally within the profession. They are invited to attend leading world conferences and summits as experts and speakers. The firm is a member of many professional organizations, including the Ukrainian Bar Association, European Business Association (EBA) and International Fiscal Association (IFA).

In addition to our Kiev office, we have branches in Odessa and Chicago.

Law Group LCF LLC was founded by merging Law Group GRIFFON LLC and Private Law Center LLC.

This enables us to talk about the high qualifications of advocates and lawyers of LCF Law Group whilst looking at their success in dispute resolutions.

The firm`s clients include leading Insurance companies like QBE Ukraine, Garantix, Generali Garant, Inkomstrach, Allianz Ukraine; banks, financial organizations and investment companies like JSCB Forum, JSCB Zlatobank and UkrSibinvest. The successful experience of LCF Law Group in resolving corporate conflicts was attained in the case of the Brovarskyy construction and building factory, Saturn Scientific Production Enterprise, etc.

The firm is focused on: corporate disputes, tax disputes, custom disputes, labor disputes, treaty engagements disputes, land disputes, antimonopoly law disputes, Intellectual property disputes and bankruptcy.

The firm’s employees have in-depth knowledge of financial law (both Ukrainian and international), constitutional and administrative laws, civil and business laws, securities, tax (both domestic and international), etc.

When taking part in court proceedings, the firm’s experts understand the importance of not to only what has been said, but also how it has been said. Therefore, special attention is given to preparations for participating in a court sitting, of the practical rules of judicial language and tactics used in a judicial fight.

A knowledge of the subtleties of law proceeding in courts of different instances and specializations allows our lawyers to represent clients in the Supreme Court of Ukraine, Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Courts of Appeal and Courts of first instance of all jurisdictions and the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry with dignity.

LCF Law Group provides a broad range of legal services in the field of corporate law in areas like the creation of new legal entities, corporate management and corporate restructuring, financial law and bank activity, including portfolio and direct investment, commercial and corporate financing, export operations financing, project financing, restructuring and bankruptcy.

Both partners and lawyers of LCF Law Group are members of Ukrainian Bar Association, World Jurist Association and the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

LCF Law Group has representative offices in Sevastopol, Simferopol, Zhytomir, Lviv, Lutsk, Kharkov, Nikolaev, Odessa, Donetsk and Kherson. The firm successfully cooperates with law firms of CIS countries and Europe as well, which allows for quick and effective resolution of the problem of clients regardless of its origin.

The Legitimus law company was established by combining the efforts of advocates and lawyers with long-term experience of successful work on the market of legal and advisory services in Ukraine, particularly in real estate, land legal relations, investment and company taxation optimization.

The Legitimus law company operates as one team in which everyone realizes one’s potential for attaining the common objective. We understand business being carried out by our Clients, and reveal and resolve their problems in a timely manner, remaining in constant contact with the Client. Having focused on the bottom line, we set a goal and achieve it consistently.

Mykola Ochkolda is the Managing Partner with Legitimus law company, Member of the Kiev Office Board, Arbitrator, while the acting member of the European Arbitration Chamber Vladimir Pavlenko is the Head of the litigation department, Attorney-at-Law with Legitimus law company.

OUR CLIENTS ARE: international and Ukrainian companies, private investors, financial institutions, non-government organizations.

MAIN PRACTICE AREAS: practice related to land law, real estate and construction, tax and investment practice, corporate practice, labor law, litigation, intellectual property, international tax planning.

LEXFOR Legal Services LLC is a Ukrainian law firm specializing in contracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, investments and privatization, taxation, licensing, antitrust and competition law as well as customs regulations.

LEXFOR also focuses on legal protection of copyrights and trade marks, conducting anti-piracy and anti-counterfeit campaigns on behalf of multinational clients. For example, LEXFOR is a local legal counsel of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

The firm’s attorneys have significant experience of litigation, representing clients in Ukrainian courts and arbitration tribunals. LEXFOR is Ukrainian member of the Baltic Law Offices (BLO) — a network of law firms linking the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, Ukraine and Russia.

Lexwell & Partners is a full-service professional law firm dedicated to providing efficient, innovative, and commercially driven legal solutions. The firm’s experience, outstanding team and language capacity have enabled it to deliver comprehensive corporate and commercial legal services to leading multinational and domestic companies.

The firm is strong across a wide range of practice areas, particularly in investments, securities, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, labor and employment, antitrust and competition law, taxation, privatization, transportation, real estate, oil and gas issues, intellectual property. The litigation practice of our attorneys includes all stages of trial and appellate litigation, as well as domestic and international arbitration, in diverse areas of the law.

Lexwell & Partners is a value-driven law firm guided by the principles of providing the highest standards of service, excellent reputation and an individual approach to every client.

Organized and operated as a multinational, integrated global partnership, our Kiev team provides international investors and Ukrainian branches of foreign companies with legal representation of the highest quality. Our services are provided by experienced, professional lawyers who form the basis of every single one of our teams.

International investors such as listed companies, family businesses and financial investors, Ukrainian branches of foreign firms, and also local companies rely on the expertise and experience of our Ukrainian, German and American lawyers. CIS-based businesses also profit from our business sensible advice and network.

We provide our clients with comprehensive legal, tax and financial advice, based on our professionals’ in-depth understanding of Ukrainian and international markets.

Our professionals' commitment to the highest worldwide standards forms the backbone of our services. We measure our services against the best worldwide competition every day.

Our goal is to develop suitable and effective business solutions in law, tax, finance and management for our clients.

Our Kiev-based team advises clients in multiple industrial sectors and areas of Ukrainian and international law, inter alia:

• M&A, Corporate law;
• Private Equity;
• Corporate Finance;
• Financial and Banking law;
• Antitrust and Competition law;
• Real Estate;
• Intellectual Property;
• Telecommunications, Media and IT;
• International Trade Law;
• Pharmaceutical Regulation;
• Labor Law;
• Public Law/Environmental Protection;
• Civil and Business Litigation, International Arbitration.

The Paritet Law Firm is an independent Ukrainian Attorney’s Association with 12 years of experience in providing efficient, innovative and commercially driven legal solutions. The firm’s experience, close-knit team and language capacity have enabled it to deliver comprehensive legal solutions to both international and domestic clients.

The firm is strong across a wide range of practice areas, particularly in:

• Corporate
• Commercial
• Financial Institutions
• Tax and Customs
• Banking and Finance
• Dispute Resolution
• Healthcare
• Media and IPR
• Real Estate and Land
• Maritime

We speak Ukrainian, Russian, English, German, Norwegian, Italian and Danish with our clients.

The Paritet Law Firm is the member of the American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) and International Lawyers’ Association ADVOC which operates in over 60 countries on four continents.

The firm is highly regarded by international legal directories and rankings, including LEGAL500 2008 & 2009 (“The recommended Ukrainian Law Firm”), Ukrainian Law Firms (recognized in corporate, tax, real estate, commercial, litigation, intellectual property, foreign trade, media, medicine and other areas of practice). The Paritet Law Firm acted as an Honorable Partner of the 50th Eurovision song contest in 2005, and is one of the law firms recommended by the Danish Embassy in Ukraine.

The Paritet Law Firm is a value-driven law firm guided by the principles of providing the highest standards of service, an individual approach and loyalty to every client.

Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group specializes mainly in litigation and ADR, including dispute resolution of corporate conflicts and litigation on the securities and stock market.

Other legal services include corporate law, M&A and protection from hostile takeovers, land disputes and real estate, insolvency, investment activity, banking & finance, public-private partnership, civil, privatization and electoral law.

Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk is initially focused on the demands of its clients. Today they include leading Ukrainian and foreign companies, private and public banks, famous businessmen and politicians. Clients include: presidential candidate Sergey Tigipko (Ukraine), Holtec International (USA), Promsvyazbank (Russia), Ukrgasbank (Ukraine), TAS investment-financial group (Ukraine), Sibir Airlines (S7) (Russia), the State Savings Bank of Ukraine and others.

The firm is headed by partners — attorney-at-law Oleksandra Pavlenko and Larysa Poberezhnyuk.

The experience of Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group is the best proof of its competence and professionalism. Today Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group provides legal support in the 2010 presidential election campaign of candidate Sergey Tigipko.

In 2009 it provided legal assistance to the temporary administration of Ukrgasbank as to the additional issue of domestic government bonds amounting to UAH 3.1 billion; provided legal support to Promsvyazbank (Russia) in the sphere of conducting due diligence of a real estate object and project structuring on accepting a mortgage amounting to more than USD 10 million; legal support to Holtec International (USA) in taxation optimization of its activity on the territory of Ukraine. In 2008 the lawyers of Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group protected the interests of the president of the board of the Provesin agricultural firm in a resonant corporate conflict characterised as raiding; provided legal support in the sale of a Greek island for Eur 24.5 million; protected the rights of private investors who invested in developing a new housing-office complex in the center of Kiev, the rights of which were estimated at USD 5.5 million.

The main CSR direction of Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group is Public Private Partnership. The firm is a legal counsel to the State Committee of Ukraine for regulatory policy and entrepreneurship and provides legal consultations on drafting legislation to the Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine. The firm is also a legal advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Banking and Finance and the Subcommittee on Securities and Stock Market.

Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group has an auditing firm PSP Audit as part of its structure and so can offer its clients comprehensive services, including legal services, tax and audit support. PSP Audit is headed by Dmytro Sushko, previously the head of the tax consulting department at Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group.

The Law Firm “Popko Brothers and Partners” is a young, enterprising, efficient, rapidly developing and professional team able for quick reaction to customer’s requests and complete satisfaction of their need for complex legal maintenance of their business.

Entering the market in such a difficult period of development of economics and the country on the whole was not accidental. Crisis at the most requires new approaches towards business, evokes the necessity of more quick adaptation of entrepreneurs to the changes in economic processes and all this at the same time requires professional legal maintenance and support of professional legal advisors.

Most of the company’s employees are the graduates of the Institute of International Relations of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, they work as lectors in this University, have academic degrees and statuses.

The firm’s legal advisors have fundamental training in different law spheres, experience of practical legal activity, partners and leading lawyers of the firm are advisers of big business-projects as well as of various state bodies. All the firm’s employees speak foreign languages allowing them to work with foreign customers more efficiently.

The Law Firm “Popko Brothers and Partners” is specialized in economic, litigation, corporate, civil, and family law. The company proposes legal assistance ensuring the customers meeting all the norms of current legislation and efficiently settles possible legal disputes with different subjects of law.

The Salkom law firm was founded in 1990. Salkom quickly built a reputation for honest and efficient counsel, and is now recognized as one of the leading providers of legal services in Ukraine.

Year after year the firm has been rated by Ukrainian and foreign rating experts as one of the leaders on the market of legal services in Ukraine. Famous international publications and guidebooks, such as The Legal 500 (Europe, Middle East & Africa), PLC Which Lawyer?, Chambers Global recommend the Salkom law firm as one of Ukraine’s top law firms that practices successfully in the fields of antitrust law, contract law, corporate and commercial, securities, bankruptcy and insolvency, international trade, privatization, and litigation, including foreign courts and international commercial arbitration procedures.

The Salkom law firm has extensive intellectual and professional potential as it employs 45 highly experienced lawyers (the total number of staff is 90). The firm’s employees speak English and other languages, which allow them to work efficiently with foreign clients.

The firm’s clientele are foreign and domestic companies, both private and state-owned, engaged in various industries such as automotive industry, banks, financial institutions and insurance companies, hotel business and leisure, publishing, investments, information technologies, shipbuilding, international trade, metallurgical industry, real estate, oil and gas, food industry, natural and mineral resources, retail, agriculture, telecommunications and media, transport, chemical industry, power industry.

The Salkom law firm enjoys longstanding cooperative relationships with international law and consulting firm in the United Kingdom, the USA, Russia, Austria, France, Cyprus, Italy, Australia, etc.

Salkom is member of European Business Association (EBA), British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (BUCC), American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) in Ukraine. The Firm’s Partners are members of the International Bar Association.

Sayenko Kharenko enjoys a global reputation as the leading Ukrainian transactional law firm. The firm specializes in cross-border transactions and regularly handles the largest and the most innovative deals involving Ukrainian assets or counterparties in the agriculture, finance, pharmaceuticals, energy, communications, media, retail, steel sectors and other industries.

For the last four years the firm has been No.1 by number of the largest transactions in The 50 Largest Deals in Ukraine research by Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly, the leading Ukrainian legal research house. The firm consistently tops the league tables for Ukrainian M&A, finance, debt and equity capital markets deals (Mergermarket, Thomson Reuters, Ukrainian Law Firms).

Sayenko Kharenko's excellent reputation has been recognized by all major local and international legal directories and publications (The Lawyer European Awards, the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence, the International Tax Review European Tax Awards, Legal Awards for M&A, Corporate, Antitrust, Finance and Real Estate by Yuridicheskaya Practika Publishing).

Many of our clients are big multinational corporations and financial institutions, including Fortune 500 and Forbes International 500 companies, international public organizations, government agencies as well as individual investors.

The law firm Spenser & Kauffmann entered the Ukrainian legal market in 2006 and since that time it has experienced strong growth and gained a reputation as a reliable legal partner. It is a full-service law firm specializing in tailor-made legal solutions to the most complex issues.

Spenser & Kauffmann’s main profiles are structuring of cross-border transactions in M&A, direct investments, setting-up and structuring foreign investment funds and asset management companies.

The firm offers a broad portfolio of leading global practices that concentrate on the following areas: antitrust and competition law, commercial law, finance and insurance law, international arbitration, litigation, M&A and corporate law, real estate and land law, and tax.

The eight practice groups of the firm include 30 law professionals, who previously held key positions in leading Ukrainian law firms, international corporations and investment funds, and specialized in different areas of law.

The company’s typical clients are foreign investment funds and other institutional investors, insurance companies, banks, asset management companies, real estate developers, industrial enterprises and private companies. The company’s lawyers work without language barriers, providing clients with legal advice not only in Ukrainian, but in English and French too.

RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group (ULG) is a full-service law firm based in Kiev and Washington, D.C. that provides comprehensive legal support to international corporate clients doing business in Ukraine and other CIS countries. ULG also frequently serves as local counsel to international law firms. We are able to deliver effective, timely and practical legal services because of the high skills and experience of our attorneys, gained as a result of practicing law and helping to shape legal developments in Ukraine. ULG advises on general corporate matters with the special expertise in the areas of antimonopoly regulation, intellectual property protection, unfair competition, energy and upstream oil and gas. ULG participates in many professional organizations, including the U.S. — Ukraine Business Council in Washington, D.C., the European Business Association and the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, as well as in international legal networks including Lawyers Associated Worldwide, Legalink, IBA and others. Each year, we organize the CIS Local Counsel Forum, a meeting of managing partners of top law firms from the CIS economic region with the participation of partners from leading international law firms (www.rulg.com/cisforum). In 2009, ULG became a founding member of the CIS Leading Counsel Network (LCN) and currently holds its rotating chairmanship. Our principal attorneys are Victor Kovalenko LL.M., Dr. Irina Paliashvili LL.M., Tamara Lukanina, Alena Vasilenko and Richard Smith. Detailed information about Ukrainian Legal Group is available at www.rulg.com.

Through our relentless focus on client success, our team delivers integrated legal solutions to complex business issues. We do this by actively listening to our clients and understanding their needs, their business and their industry.

In Ukraine, the Vasil Kisil & Partners brand is synonymous with great depth and breadth of legal expertise and experience, which has created superior value for our clients since 1992.

We have a history of taking bold steps — from building one of Ukraine’s first independent law firm models to incorporating an integrated structure — to better serve our clients. Our approach creates a single, client-focused team that takes advantage of our size and scale, and frees our lawyers to do what they do best: delivering customized legal services that help you achieve your goals.

Vasil Kisil & Partners is a Ukrainian law firm that delivers integrated business law, dispute resolution services, tax law, energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law, international trade law, labor and employment law, real estate and construction law, as well as public private partnership, concessions & infrastructure law.

We serve international and domestic companies, as well as private individuals, dealing in agriculture, banking, chemical, construction, financial, energy, hi-tech, general commodities, insurance, IT, media, metallurgy, pharmaceutical, real estate, shipbuilding, telecommunication, trading, transport, and other industries and economy sectors.

Our clients include such world-known companies as Alcatel, Astellas Pharma, ATB, BASF, Bayer Consumer, BNP Paribas, Central European Media Enterprises, Continium, Dell, Du Pont, Energy Standard Group, Eurosport, Fitch, Google, Gucci, Hewlett-Packard, LG Electronics, Marks & Spencer, Merrill Lynch, Moody's, Nissan, Opel, OTP Bank, Pioneer, Philips, Red Bull, Saab, SEB Group, Shell, Siemens, Tchibo, Volkswagen.

Experience the VKP difference and sense first-hand how integrated competencies, depth of knowledge, expertise and experience can be your competitive advantage.

Volkov Koziakov & Partners was created in August 2008 as a result of the merger of two well-known Ukrainian law firms — Volkov & Partners and Sergiy Koziakov & Partners.

Founded back in 1994, Sergiy Koziakov & Partners law firm was one of the leaders in the fields of litigation, investment and international trade law, and antitrust regulation. Volkov & Partners law firm was founded in 2005, and in a short space of time it became one of the leaders among Ukrainian law firms in such practice fields as corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, real estate, aviation, oil and gas.

Both firms have earned an exceptional reputation during these years among both their Ukrainian and international clients as well as with their legal colleagues.

Volkov Koziakov & Partners now offers its clients a full spectrum of legal services, and close cooperation with many influential international law firms. It also provides the benefits of membership to organizations like TAGLaw, IFA, and the International Business Law Consortium (IBLC), which allows it to effectively delegate projects that encompass several different jurisdictions.

Our clients include influential and established domestic and international companies as well as bodies of state authority.

The firm's main practice areas include litigation and international arbitration, antitrust, international trade, anti-dumping and corporate.