Practices

Recovery of losses from Russia's military aggression

  • Comprehensive legal services to compensate for any losses caused by the military aggression of the Russian Federation and the illegal occupation of part of the territories of Ukraine (in Ukrainian courts, foreign courts, and international jurisdictional bodies);
  • Losses recording, creating the necessary evidence;
  • Inclusion of the company as a victim in the information systems of victims of military aggression;
  • Searching for the target property that will be used to compensate for losses;
  • Organizing the recovery of damages from property outside Ukraine;
  • Restructuring the debts of victims of military aggression, primarily to banks.

Recovery of lost assets

  • Comprehensive legal services for the recovery of assets lost as a result of fraud or other offenses (in Ukraine and in foreign jurisdictions);
  • Strategic planning of asset recovery; formation of an evidence base; search, encumbrance, maintenance and recovery of the target property.

Private clients practice

  • Developing and implementing models for preventing and minimizing risks to private capital;
  • Developing high-quality anti-crisis and reputation communications;
  • Developing investment structures for family businesses;
  • Legal management of advisors/managers from different areas of the Client's business to achieve a multi-sectoral goal;
  • Protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.

Agricultural sector

  • Streamlining haphazard and other vulnerable ownership structures in agribusiness;
  • Restructuring of agribusiness debts, primarily to banks, caused by the military aggression and illegal occupation of part of Ukraine's territories;
  • Compensation for losses of agribusiness caused by military aggression and illegal occupation of part of the territories of Ukraine (including as a result of property damage, soil contamination from military operations, mining, crop losses, and theft of equipment).

Public-private partnerships

  • Legal support for the transfer of state and municipal property for concession, management, joint venture; support for privatization procedures, lease of state and municipal property;
  • Legal support of any competitive procedures with the state.

Preventing corruption

  • Expert assistance in anti-corruption policy;
  • Development of anti-corruption (compliance) policies and programs;
  • Advising on the anti-corruption legislation of Ukraine;
  • Protection of clients' interests in all relations with the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC).

International and foreign dispute resolution

  • Strategic planning of investment and commercial arbitrations, disputes in foreign jurisdictions, including the choice of jurisdictions and asset recovery instruments;
  • Organizing the search for litigation funding;
  • Cross-border asset tracing for future recovery;
  • Formation of an evidence base, drafting expert opinions and reviews of opinions;
  • Representation and coordination of the case as a whole, or participation in a multinational team as local counsel;
  • Legal support for the enforcement of decisions of national, foreign and international jurisdictional bodies in the jurisdictions where the property is located.

Business protection

  • Stress test of ownership structures; modeling of unfriendly use of tracing, seizure of property, raider attack, internal data leaks; providing recommendations for eliminating risks;
  • Organizing forensic investigations and creating other evidence of the validity of the origin of assets;
  • Defense in corporate conflicts, disputes regarding any tender procedures;
  • Minimizing the risks of legal relations with the state component;
  • Reducing the impact of political factors on business processes;
  • Building high-quality anti-crisis communications, long-term communications with the state.

Government Relations

  • Drafting strategies and action plans for their implementation, policies and programs, guidelines for business and public administration;
  • Professional expertise of the institutional capacity of state bodies;
  • Drafting of regulatory acts, legal and media advocacy, and communication of legislative changes.

Banking sector

  • Legal support of banks or bank clients in all aspects of bank withdrawal from the market;
  • Legal support of banks in their relations with central authority;
  • Search for borrowers' property;
  • Restructuring of borrowers' debts;
  • Compensation for losses of banks caused by armed aggression, illegal occupation of part of the territories of Ukraine, and recovery of bank assets lost as a result of fraud or other offenses.

Corporate law

  • Establishment of companies and ownership structures in Ukraine and in foreign countries;
  • Streamlining haphazard and other vulnerable ownership structures;
  • Corporate business support;
  • Comprehensive support for the acquisition/disposal of significant assets.