Advising on matters related to lending arrangements, secured obligations, financial monitoring, foreign currency regulations, legal regulation of the banking and finance sector and the insurance sector, anti-money laundering, and leasing arrangements.

• Advising on lending and debt restructuring arrangements, secured obligations (bank guarantees, escrow accounts, pledges, mortgages), specific aspects of bank transfers, financial monitoring, foreign currency regulations, insurance business, and anti-money laundering practices
• Advising on licensing procedures for banking and finance sector participants and on business practices of banks, traders, custodians, securities registrars, depositaries, and insurance companies
• Advising on matters related to the regulation of activities of asset management companies
• Advising on leasing arrangements (financial leasing, operational leasing and leaseback arrangements)

Advising on various forms of financing, investment regulations, in particular securities market regulations, and providing legal support for share and bond issues.

• Advising on matters related to the formation of the authorized capital of joint-stock and other companies, joint ventures, investments through venture and other investment funds, project financing, and structuring of various forms of financing
• Advising on securities accounting practices, securities transactions, pledge arrangements, encumbered securities transactions, accumulated income payments (dividends, interest and principal payments), clearing arrangements, listing and delisting arrangements
• Providing legal support for share and bond issues, in particular drafting necessary documents, including underwriting agreements, depositary and registrar agreements, providing legal support for audit processes, registering issues (initial offering) and additional issues with the Securities and Stock Market State Commission of Ukraine, drafting share sale and purchase agreements, brokerage agreements, and shareholders agreements.

Structuring transactions with banking institutions, insurance companies and investments funds, as well as other transactions involving bank transfers, guarantees, and foreign currency regulations, as well as drafting standard agreements and developing products and documents for banking and finance market participants.

• Setting up contractual arrangements for dealing with finance and insurance companies, banks, asset management companies, investment funds, including for transnational projects, developing transaction schemes and supervising their consistent implementation, drafting agreements, arranging lending, debt restructuring, security, escrow account, mortgage, pledge and insurance deals.
• Drafting internal business regulations and standard agreements for banks, finance and insurance companies, asset management companies, investment funds, developing relevant products, and drafting respective documents.
• Drafting future and forward contracts, leasing agreements, investment agreements, investment fund agreements, various project financing agreements, joint venture agreements, and franchise agreements.

Establishing banking institutions, insurance companies, securities market participants, investment funds, drafting their internal regulations, and assisting them in obtaining necessary permits and licenses.

• Drafting constituent documents, internal rules and regulations, registering banking institutions, insurance companies, securities market participants, investment funds, and dealing with licensing matters.
• Setting up subsidiaries, branches and representative offices of foreign banks, securities market participants, insurance companies and investment funds.
• Providing legal assistance in the process of drafting corporate management documents, implementing Western standards for companies’ operations, and ensuring the maintenance of capital.
• Providing legal assistance in organizing and holding general shareholders meetings.

Conducting due diligence, structuring deals involving mergers and acquisitions of banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, investment funds, securities market participants, obtaining permits for disposal of shares, and making changes to the management structure.

• Conducting due diligence for banks, finance and insurance companies, investment funds and securities market participants at the buyer’s or seller’s special request to identify risks and other factors affecting the adjustment of share prices, and developing recommendations for the minimization of risks.
• Structuring transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, as well as fixed asset acquisitions, in line with applicable laws and providing legal assistance in obtaining permits from governmental agencies and regulatory bodies for pursuit and completion of M&A deals.
• Drafting necessary documents for the pursuit and completion of transactions, including such documents as letters of intent, preliminary agreements, share and asset sale and purchase agreements with all relevant annexes (adjusted price calculations, warranties and representations, heads of agreement, completion agreements, etc.), escrow account agreements, blocking agreements, closing memorandums, post-closing agreements, and other additional documents required for the pursuit and completion of M&A transactions.

 
Representing the interests of banking, insurance and finance market participants before governmental agencies.

• Representing the interests of banking, insurance and finance market participants in the Securities and Stock Market State Commission of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, as well as other institutions.