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CMS Advises TIS Group on DP World’s Entry Into Ukraine

CMS Advises TIS Group on DP World’s Entry Into Ukraine

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CMS has advised the TIS Group on English and Ukrainian law aspects of a joint venture involving DP World's entry into Ukraine.

As part of the transaction, DP World agreed to acquire control of TIS Container Terminal Ukraine, the deepest and most technologically advanced container terminal in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Yuzhnyi.

CMS's team was led by Partner Tetyana Dovgan and Managing Partner Graham Conlon and included Partner Olga Belyakova, Counsel Olga Shenk, Senior Associate Nataliya Nakonechna, Associates Mariana Saienko, Vitalii Mainarovych, Mykola Heletiy, Oleksandr Sytnyk, and Vladyslav Kurylko, Lawyer Diana Pysarenko, and Trainee Denys Hatseniuk, as well as Amsterdam-based Senior Attorney Christian Delgado.

Editor's Note: After this article was published, Marchenko Partners announced that it had advised DP World on the deal. The firm's team included Partners Oleksandr Aleksyeyenko and Roman Shulyar, Senior Associate Sviatoslav Henyk, and Associates Ruslan Yurchenko, Alexander Poznyakov, and Bogdan Burlaka.

Subsequently, on June 12, 2020, CMS reported that the deal had successfully closed.

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CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

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