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Sayenko Kharenko

Banking & Finance

Europe Guide 2026 : Ukraine


Sayenko Kharenko

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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

Being at the forefront of the technology that's changing the global economy, we help shape regulatory change to innovative finance solutions.

Clients (14)

  • Barclays Capital
  • Citigroup
  • Deutsche Bank
  • EBRD
  • Goldman Sachs
  • ING
  • IFC
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Oschadbank
  • PrivatBank
  • Ukreximbank
  • Government of Canada
  • Piraeus Bank
  • UK Export Finance

Industries (22)

  • Agriculture
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Communications
  • Retail
  • Telecom
  • Financial Services
  • Government
  • Mining & Metals
  • Software & Computer Services
  • Utilities
  • Automotive
  • Aviation
  • Chemicals
  • Financial institutions
  • Food & Beverages
  • Hospitality & Entertainment
  • Infrastructure & Transportation
  • Oil & Gas
  • Public sector
  • Real estate & Construction
  • Renewable energy

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Ukraine

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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 advised the government of Canada on issuing multiple loans to Ukraine.

Strengths

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  • Sayenko Kharenko can handle complex matters and presents these matters in a clear way to us.

    Banking & Finance respondentEurope
  • Sayenko Kharenko is highly commercial and pragmatic in its approach.

    Banking & Finance respondentEurope
  • Sayenko Kharenko always has deep and up-to-date knowledge of our business and the market.

    Banking & Finance respondentEurope
  • The team thinks comprehensively and foresees issues that no one else expects. The laywers are also very client-oriented, hard-working, always available and ready to get the job done.

    Banking & Finance respondentEurope
  • Sayenko Kharenko lawyers are very experienced and creative. They have always found a way out of the most complicated situations on our projects. They are always committed to find a solution and not only to provide legal feedback, which is very helpful for an external legal adviser.

    Banking & Finance respondentEurope

Notable Practitioners

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  • Eminent PractitionersNazar Chernyavsky
    Eminent PractitionersNazar Chernyavsky

    Nazar Chernyavsky

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

  • Band 1Anton Korobeynikov
    Band 1Anton Korobeynikov

    Anton Korobeynikov

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

    • He is always our first port of call and has the local regulatory smarts.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • Anton Korobeynikov is the best banking and finance lawyer that I have worked with in Ukraine. He is incredibly pragmatic and commercial and has a deep knowledge of international financings.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • Anton Korobeynikov takes hands-on responsibility.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • Anton Korobeynikov has good strategic vision, is very persistent and never gives up in resolving the issues that come up on a project. He always keeps coming up with alternative options if something doesn't work.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • We know him as a reliable and very smart lawyer. We recommend him for any finance or capital market transaction in Ukraine.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
  • Band 3Igor Lozenko
    Band 3Igor Lozenko

    Igor Lozenko

    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.

  • Associates to watchOles Trachuk
    Associates to watchOles Trachuk

    Oles Trachuk

    Oles Trachuk is a senior associate gaining significant recognition for his work on debt restructurings as well as sovereign borrowing.

    • He provides great support during projects. He is very hard-working.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • Oles Trachuck is very helpful, provides quick responses and is easy to work with.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
  • Associates to watchVladyslava Mitsai
    Associates to watchVladyslava Mitsai

    Vladyslava Mitsai

    Senior associate Vladyslava Mitsai enjoys praise for her work on large-scale debt restructurings and high-value bond issuances.

    • She is incredibly sharp, commercial and always delivers easy-to-understand and pragmatic legal advice.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • Vladyslava Mitsai is great at organising complex project processes and combining the detailed legal analysis into clear and understandable summaries.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope
    • She is very thorough and can provide a very deep analysis of legal issues.

      Banking & Finance respondentEurope

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