AMBER Law Company

ADDRESS:

29 Lesi Ukrayinki Blvd., Office 75,

Kyiv, 01104, Ukraine

Tel.: + 380 67 325 9582,

Fax: + 380 44 285 42 99

E-mail: office@amber-corp.com

Web-site: www.amber-law.net

AMBER Law Company is a multi-function team of experts each possessing significant practical experience in various fields of law and business. The joint efforts of all team members, as well as the ability to analyze all matters from multiple viewpoints, ensure the most efficient and cost-saving case solutions. Established in 2013 and based in Kyiv, Ukraine, AMBER is a rapidly developing law company with its affiliates in Chernivtsi (Ukraine), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Limassol (Cyprus). It renders a wide range of legal services offering innovative solutions to its clients, and it is always among the first who master cutting-edge technologies and up-to-date best practices. AMBER is particularly effective as an anti-crisis team in cases of emergency, when its clients require quick decision-making and a high level of responsibility. AMBER always practices a result-based approach. The AMBER team also includes highly-skilled criminal lawyers who handle defense on white-collar crimes and economic crimes. The company primarily specializes in banking & finance, tax law, corporate law, compliance, commercial litigation, criminal law.

Banking & Finance

There are Finders Agreements executed between AMBER and several foreign banks which provide that AMBER brings clients to the bank and verifies them in order to provide evidence that all taxes are duly paid in the country of their incorporation and/or where business is conducted. AMBER is constantly advising top managers of Ukrainian commercial banks on how to properly implement compliance procedures and on financial monitoring-related matters. The lawyers at AMBER are also involved in credit-related disputes and litigation.

Tax

The AMBER team renders legal advice on tax-related matters on an everyday basis by providing guidance as to correct implementation and interpretation of applicable acts, regulations, rules and administrative instructions. And furthermore, there are many similar VAT-related cases where the fiscal authorities violate the rights of clients by blocking registration of their tax notes, groundless challenges against the legitimacy of their economic transactions, accrual of additional amounts of taxes and imposition of financial penalties. AMBER clients also face illegal seizures by so-called VAT limits (the term invented by criminal elements and adopted by employees of the  Ukrainian fiscal service).

Corporate Law

AMBER has rich experience of providing legal assistance in the area of corporate law and corporate disputes pursuant to multi-level businesses with a complex ramified structure. Top corporate experts of the AMBER team possess serious practices in the protection of minor shareholders, handling conflicts between shareholders in legal entities incorporated in Ukraine and other jurisdictions.

Compliance

AMBER Law Company acts as an external counsel for several Ukrainian and foreign banks. As combating illicit enrichment and money laundering is one of the main global development trends at the present time, paying close attention to beneficiaries as a result, one of the current key practices of AMBER is provision of legal support for the development of protective instruments clearly structuring the admissibility of relevant financial transactions and protecting its clients from possible penalties. Such instruments are also helpful for conflicts of interests, market abuse, the “Chinese Wall” approach (strict differentiation of powers), insider lists, watch lists and lists of restrictions, complaints processing and litigation, violation of rules, etc.

Commercial Litigation

The AMBER team possesses significant practical experience in commercial litigation related to disputes arising from business transactions performed by its clients. It practices a client-focused approach based on achieving efficient and cost-saving solutions to complex commercial disputes in diverse industry sectors, including, in particular, disputes over complex construction contracts and/or implementation, ownership, recovery of debts for goods delivered/services rendered/works completed, corporate disputes between shareholders and/or partners, as well as other kinds of disputes in various commercial contexts.

White-Collar Crime

AMBER Law Company has broad experience of defending companies and their officials/representatives at every stage of criminal proceedings (criminal investigation, trial, appeal, cassation, execution of sentence) and at each level of the court system, or representing such companies/officials/representatives that are victims of crimes. Some criminal lawyers of AMBER also have significant practical experience of work in prosecution services, which means they definitely know how the system works from the inside. They are able to anticipate all possible legal nuances and to react appropriately so as to ensure that clients are always protected from violation of their rights. AMBER Law Company is mainly involved in rendering legal assistance on white-collar crimes and business-related crimes.