CMS has advised ING, the lead mandated arranger and book runner for the EUR 100 million financing of MHP’s acquisition of Slovenian poultry producer Perutnina Ptuj.

Avellum has acted as Ukrainian legal counsel to the EBRD and Nederlandse Financierings – Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. in connection to a EUR 24.5 million senior secured loan granted to LLC Chysta Enerhiia-2011, with 50% from each. Integrites reportedly advised Chysta Enerhiia-2011 on the deal.

CMS Ukraine has advised Acciona Energia on all aspects of its joint venture projects with UDP Renewables, a Ukrainian investment and development company for the renewable energy sector. Everlegal reportedly advised UDP Renewables on the deal.

Aequo has acted as Ukrainian law counsel to the European Fund for Southeast Europe on its granting of a USD ten million loan to Ukraine's OTP Leasing LLC.

Asters successfully represented Sanofi Ukraine in a challenge to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine's finding of a purported competition law violation.

Sayenko Kharenko has advised the Bergner group, a European manufacturer of houseware, on the acquisition of a majority interest in an unidentified Ukrainian distribution company, and on the establishment of a joint venture with an unidentified local partner aimed at developing the distribution network for Bergner products in Ukraine.

Integrites has advised Ukrainian payment system LEO on its registration as an international payment system.

LEZO Attorneys at Law has announced that Bohdan Masekha, Serhii Mazur, and Andriy Agafonov have been promoted to Associate Partner.

Ilyashev & Partners is representing Ukranian state-owned enterprise Antonov before the District Court of Kyiv in proceedings against Rosaviation and AMTES GmbH.

Former Baker McKenzie Partner Ihor Olekhov, who spent over 20 years with the firm, has joined CMS in Ukraine as a Partner.

Aequo has represented the Dragon Capital Group before the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine in relation to obtaining merger clearance for its May 2019 sale of Chumak to Delta Wilmar.

Last year Ukraine took several significant steps to encourage investments into the energy market. The Government announced a strategic goal of making Ukraine self-sufficient in energy and abandoning its dependence on imported gas.

Avellum has advised Dobrobut and its shareholders on the sale of a minority stake in the company to Horizon Capital. Sayenko Kharenko advised Dobrobut on the deal.

Sayenko Kharenko has provided Ukrainian legal counsel to Deutsche Bank on a EUR 529 million facility extended to Ukraine under a World Bank guarantee.

"You know that there are quite a lot of things happening in Ukraine now,” says Vadim Medvedev, Partner at Avellum in Kyiv, who begins by talking about the recent election in April of Volodymyr Zelensky to the Ukrainian Presidency. “Everyone is looking forward to the inauguration to see what changes in policies may follow, Medvedev says, while pointing out that, although Zelensky has asked for May 19, the specific date has not been scheduled yet. He explains that outgoing President Petro Poroshenko was considered to be a “'business-as-usual' candidate,” but the business community is uncertain about Zelensky’s plans, “as there are a lot of gray areas and open issues with respect to his policies and programs — it’s simply unclear.”

Ukrainian lawyer Alla Kozachenko has joined DLA Piper's global partnership, bringing the total number of partners in the firm's Kyiv office to eight.

DLA Piper has advised Perion Network on its EUR 3.75 million acquisition of Septa Communications LLC, also known as Captain Growth, a Ukrainian start-up which applies AI-driven technologies to marketing. Baker McKenzie reportedly advised the sellers: Co-Founders Dmytro Plieshakov and Dmytro Bilash.

CMS lawyers Andrea Potz in Austria, Jelena Nushol in Croatia, Marek Oleksyn and Lukasz Dynysiuk in Poland, Petra Corba Stark and Michal Hutan in Slovakia, and Tetyana Dovgan in Ukraine have been promoted to the firm's partnership as part of its 2019 global promotion round.