Kateryna Chechulina

Practice Areas

Banking & International Finance, Capital Markets, Project Finance, Structured Commodities Trade Finance, Sustainable Finance, Insolvency and Restructuring, Banking Regulatory, Financial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Kateryna Chechulina is an English and Ukrainian qualified counsel in the Banking and Finance practice at CMS Ukraine. Having extensive experience in international banking and finance, Kateryna works on high-profile cross-border financings in the CEE, Baltics and Central Asia regions. She advises on all aspects of financings, including complex transaction structuring, and acts both for lenders and borrowers. Kateryna focuses on project finance, trade & commodity finance, acquisition and corporate finance in various sectors, including agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, TMT. Kateryna also covers sustainable and green finance and investments and ESG compliance. Kateryna advises on cross-border debt restructuring & insolvency, NPLs, M&A, PPP, all types of financial services, including insurance, banking regulatory matters, as well as municipal finance.

Kateryna has unparalleled experience in capital markets, having advised on unique capital market transactions, including between global financial institutions and central banks. Not only does Kateryna support clients in entering Ukrainian capital markets and starting trading in Ukrainian fixed income and structured products, but she also contributes to the development of the model of a sustainable and profitable trade and post-trade infrastructure in Ukraine, working on its feasibility study in the NEXT-UA project. She also advises clients on trading in derivatives (including based on standard documentation such as ISDA and GMRA) and has worked on developing licensing terms for the CCPs, regulations on clearing activities and requirements for contractual arrangements between CCPs and trading venues.

Kateryna Chechulina is a Co-Chair of the Sustainability Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and a member of Association of Sustainable Development Experts.

Professional Memberships

EBA, ACC, ASDE, UBA, USUBC, AHK

Publications

• July 2024 – Cross-Border Payments for War Risk Insurance and Certain Guarantees / Suretyships Allowed

• May 2024 – FX Rules simplified during wartime in Ukraine

• February 2024 – Agrarian Notes: A New Instrument to Finance Agrarian Business