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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.

For more details please visit our website: https://aequo.ua/

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 co-operation with international law firms.

Work Highlights

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  • The team at Aequo assisted Svit-Agro Group with the sale of a large oil processing plant to LNZ Group.

Strengths

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They understand the business needs of our members and have a good reputation with the regulator as reliable experts. This helps to establish good dialogue among all.

Corporate/M&A respondent
Europe

The lawyers at Aequo are very experienced, client-oriented and creative. They can add material value to the project and have skilled negotiators.

Corporate/M&A respondent
Europe

The Aequo team's strengths are its scrupulousness and systematic business-oriented approach.

Corporate/M&A respondent
Europe

I just want to work with Aequo more often in more and more matters. They are really good lawyers.

Corporate/M&A respondent
Europe

The Aequo team distinguishes itself in the Ukrainian legal market through its extensive range of competencies, deep knowledge of local law and vast experience across various industries.

Corporate/M&A respondent
Europe

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.

Her high work ethic combined with exceptional skills always ended up generating valuable and accurate deliverables exactly to our appetite and demands. She is also a very polite and sincere person.

Anna Babych is exceptionally responsive and consistently delivers insightful, high-quality legal advice, aligning with the best market practices.

Anna has excellent knowledge of local legislation, and is very responsive and creative.

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Michael Lukashenko
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Michael Lukashenko
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Band 4

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

Michael Lukashenko is highly client-oriented, combining his deep understanding of business needs with strong expertise in M&A.

Michael manifested deep and comprehensive knowledge of local legislation, an excellent level of responsiveness and the ability to work under pressure.

His ability to understand and address the unique demands of each client ensures that his legal advice is not only technically sound but also practical and actionable.

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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.

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Anna Babych
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Anna Babych
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Michael Lukashenko
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Michael Lukashenko
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Denis Lysenko
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Denis Lysenko
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Members

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Anna Babych

Anna Babych

Head of Department

Kyrpa Yulia

Clients

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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

Provided by Aequo

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