About

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Integrated with our other transactional teams, our corporate commercial practice is ideally positioned to add value to our clients.Our key advantage is the broad expertise that helps us to address diverse situations. Our lawyers combine industry knowledge and local expertise with the ability to tailor innovative solutions to businesses of all types and sizes. Our advice is efficient, timely and to the point because we are constantly engaged in helping our clients at every stage of their businesses’ life cycles.

This practice covers all corporate and trading activities of a business. Our corporate governance lawyers are the true innovators in this area. By virtue of their regular participation in drafting and developing сorporate legislation in Ukraine, they are leading experts on how to apply it commercially.

We help our clients address the sector-specific regulatory compliance challenges in regulated industries. We develop and test compliance programmes to satisfy general needs of the clients.

We are experts in the full range of commercial contracts – customer and supplier, franchising, contractual liability, logistics, sales promotion and distributorships, outsourcing, e-commerce, licensing, agency and advertising. Our clients’ day-to-day businesses matter as much for us as stand-alone projects.

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Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A - Ukraine

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Aequo's M&A practice group receives significant instructions from private equity funds as well as notable local and international companies. The team assists with domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as joint venture projects. The law firm also handles corporate restructuring matters. The team has practical experience in handling deals in the energy, information technology, retail and agriculture sectors, and also has experience in assisting energy and industrial companies. The practice group has a strong track record in handling private equity transactions, representing private equity funds and venture capital firms. The corporate team also regularly works in cooperation with international law firms.

Work Highlights

  • Aequo advised NEQSOL Holding on the privatisation of PJSC 'United Mining and Chemical Company', a transaction valued at approximately USD100 million.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Anna Babych
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Anna Babych
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Band 1

Head of department Anna Babych is a top-tier practitioner known for her skilful handling of notable transactions in a range of industries, including energy, agriculture and pharmaceuticals. She is well placed to act for international clients on inbound transactions.

Anna stands out for her strategic thinking and ability to simplify complex legal issues without losing nuance. Her leadership in negotiations consistently delivers favourable outcomes.

Anna Babych is always top-notch in terms of advice, responsiveness and business approach.

Michael Lukashenko
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Michael Lukashenko
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Band 3

Michael Lukashenko regularly assists with a broad range of corporate matters, including transactions, joint ventures and restructurings.

Michael Lukashenko consistently demonstrates a combination of deep technical expertise, commercial pragmatism and strong leadership in cross-border deals.

Michael Lukashenko is always responsive, client-focused and easy to work with. We feel our matters are handled with care and priority.

What distinguishes Michael from his peers is his exceptional combination of deep legal expertise and a pragmatic, business-focused approach.

The cooperation with Michael Lukashenko always brings us good results. He understands our tasks and risks so he proposes us interesting recommendations for solving problems.

Denis Lysenko
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Denis Lysenko
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Band 5

Denis Lysenko is recognised for his experience in share and asset transactions as well as corporate restructurings.

Denis Lysenko is a very strong, pragmatic and solutions-oriented lawyer.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Ukraine

Corporate/M&A

Anna Babych
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Anna Babych
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Band 1
Michael Lukashenko
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Michael Lukashenko
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Band 3
Denis Lysenko
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Denis Lysenko
5
Band 5

Members

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Anna Babych

Anna Babych

Head of Department

Kyrpa Yulia

Clients

Provided by Aequo

Ardagh Group

Epicenter-K

George's Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund

GlaxoSmithKline

Google

Inditex

Ipsos

Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP)

Nova Poshta

Novus Ukraine

UniCredit Group

Vodafone Ukraine

Industries

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Banks

Charities / Not for Profit

Chemicals

Commercial & Professional Services

Consumer Product Manufacturing

Energy

Financial Services

Health Care

Media

Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

Private Clients / Individuals

Retail

Software & Computer Services

Technology, Hardware & Electronics

Telecommunications

Utilities