Sayenko Kharenko, Banking & Finance | Chambers Europe Profile

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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

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

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Ukraine

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Band 1

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.

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Work Highlights

The team at Sayenko Kharenko advised the government of Canada on issuing multiple loans to Ukraine.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

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

Banking & Finance respondent
Europe

Sayenko Kharenko is highly commercial and pragmatic in its approach.

Banking & Finance respondent
Europe

Sayenko Kharenko always has deep and up-to-date knowledge of our business and the market.

Banking & Finance respondent
Europe

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 respondent
Europe

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 respondent
Europe

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

Banking & Finance respondent
Europe

Sayenko Kharenko is highly commercial and pragmatic in its approach.

Banking & Finance respondent
Europe

Sayenko Kharenko always has deep and up-to-date knowledge of our business and the market.

Banking & Finance respondent
Europe

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 respondent
Europe

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 respondent
Europe

Notable Practitioners

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Nazar Chernyavsky

Head of Banking & Finance

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Eminent Practitioners

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.

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Anton Korobeynikov

Head of Banking & Finance

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Band 1

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.

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.

Anton Korobeynikov takes hands-on responsibility.

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.

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

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Igor Lozenko

Head of Banking & Finance

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Band 3

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.

Oles Trachuk

Associates to watch

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.

Oles Trachuck is very helpful, provides quick responses and is easy to work with.

Vladyslava Mitsai

Associates to watch

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.

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

She is very thorough and can provide a very deep analysis of legal issues.

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Banking & Finance

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Nazar Chernyavsky

Head of Banking & Finance

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Eminent Practitioners

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Anton Korobeynikov

Head of Banking & Finance

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Band 1

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Igor Lozenko

Head of Banking & Finance

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Band 3

Oles Trachuk

Associates to watch

Vladyslava Mitsai

Associates to watch

Members

Provided by Sayenko Kharenko

Anton Korobeynikov

Head of Department

Head of Department

Nazar Chernyavsky

Head of Department

Oles Trachuk

Olexander Olshansky

Vladyslava Mitsai

Vladyslava Mitsai

Clients

Provided by Sayenko Kharenko

Barclays Capital

Citigroup

Deutsche Bank

EBRD

Goldman Sachs

Government of Canada

IFC

ING

J.P. Morgan

Oschadbank

Piraeus Bank

PrivatBank

UK Export Finance

Ukreximbank

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Agriculture

Automotive

Aviation

Banking

Chemicals

Communications

Energy

Financial Services

Financial institutions

Food & Beverages

Government

Hospitality & Entertainment

Infrastructure & Transportation

Mining & Metals

Oil & Gas

Public sector

Real estate & Construction

Renewable energy

Retail

Software & Computer Services

Telecom

Utilities