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Provided by Sayenko Kharenko

The firm offers a combination of outstanding legal expertise, a business-oriented approach, and one of the largest and most experienced teams of banking and finance lawyers in Ukraine. We are valued by our clients for going beyond the traditional scope of legal work and becoming part of our clients’ teams to ensure successful and comfortable results for their business in any type of finance deals.

The firm’s banking and finance team has a strong track record of managing all types of financing, which allows us to provide both quick but high-quality advice on simple deals and to tailor “first-of-a-kind” or unconventional legal structures for complex transactions.

Our experience covers:

  • General bank and corporate lending
  • Secured finance involving all types of collateral (including equipment, shares, real estate, receivables, bank accounts)
  • Project finance
  • Borrowing base financing
  • IFI financing
  • ECA-backed financing
  • Financing involving government and public-sector entities

Our banking and finance team is also regularly involved in distressed debt and secondary market trading, advising international and local banks, hedge funds, and factoring companies and other market participants on Ukrainian legal aspects of individual and portfolio loan trades

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What the Team is Known For

Sayenko Kharenko has extensive experience in cross-border financing instructions, including sovereign borrowing. The law firm has particular knowledge of lending to the public sector, including in energy efficiency projects. The practice regularly acts for international financing institutions, often in cooperation with international law firms, on complex high-value instructions. The team is also active in export finance. The group has exceptional capital markets capabilities and regularly acts for arrangers on high-value bond issuances. Sayenko Kharenko offers strong experience in energy and infrastructure projects.

Work Highlights

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  • The team at Sayenko Kharenko assisted the Government of Canada with the Ukrainian law aspects of its CAD2 billion loan to Ukraine. 

Notable Practitioners

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Anton Korobeynikov
Anton Korobeynikov
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Anton Korobeynikov advises on project finance matters, debt restructuring and syndicated loans. His clientele includes domestic and international banks as well as corporate clients. 

Igor Lozenko
Igor Lozenko
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Igor Lozenko advises on a range of financing matters, including working with international developmental banks as well as acting on restructurings. He is also adept at handling debt capital markets work.

Nazar Chernyavsky
Nazar Chernyavsky
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Nazar Chernyavsky has a weight of experience in advising on a variety of financing matters. He is also well versed in handling complex capital markets issues.

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Anton Korobeynikov
Anton Korobeynikov
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Igor Lozenko
Igor Lozenko
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Nazar Chernyavsky
Nazar Chernyavsky
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Renaissance Capital

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