Yuriy Martinyuk Yuriy Semenyuk

 

   
Yuriy Chumak   Vladislav Shapoval

Yuriy Martinyuk  (martinyuk@lexfor.com)

Partner

Education: Kiev University, Institute of International Relations, International Law Department.

Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Practice: domestic litigation, international litigation and arbitration, contracts and real estate, international commerce, corporate law, government regulation and licensing, copyright protection

Mr. Martinyuk is experienced in:

  • Representing clients at national civil, economic and administrative courts, the Supreme Court of Ukraine; international arbitration tribunals, the European Court of Human Rights;
  • Representing clients at the courts of foreign jurisdictions
  • Sale and purchase of land and real estate
  • Litigating against the government and tax bodies of Ukraine
  • Representation of clients in the corporate disputes;
  • Foundation of companies in Ukraine and in other jurisdictions
  • Advising on mergers and acquisitions of telecommunication and mining companies, trusts and banks
  • Copyright protection of international companies
  • Privatization of state broadcasting companies
  • Legal support to international air carriers in Ukraine.
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Yuriy Semenyuk  (semenyuk@lexfor.com)

Partner

Education: Kiev University Law School.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

Practice: contract law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, competition law, banking law, securities and capital markets, privatization, investments, currency and customs regulations.

Mr. Semenyuk is experienced in:

  • Legal advice in acquisition of an Ukrainian insurance company by a foreign finance and industrial group
  • Advising on purchase by a foreign investor of control over the mobile network operator in Ukraine, obtaining Anti-Monopoly consents for concentration
  • Legal advice on a sale contract of a radio-stations
  • Consulting a foreign bank on implementation of scheme of loans for security of shares of Ukrainian regional power distribution companies
  • Legal analysis of schemes of securing obligations on bank loan agreements
  • Consultations on the issues of implementing investment projects in the sphere of energy saving financed by EBRD and TACIS
  • Protection of clients from unfriendly seizure, and further legal support for the transaction on the sale of a control set of shares in the share capital of a machine producing plant
  • Working out and implementation of company security concept which specializes in construction of energy complexes, protection from unfriendly seizure while carrying out raids by law enforcement bodies and within litigation
  • Advising the general importer of cars on the issues of corporate relations, investment activity, registering right to real estate, labour, tax and competition law, external economic activity, bank loans and mortgage contracts
  • Legal support for a big oil company on the issues of liquidation of one of divisions, representation of the interests of the client at the Anti-Monopoly Committee and obtaining permission for concentration; participation in procedures of investigating the breach of competition law
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Yuriy Chumak  (chumak@lexfor.com)

Partner

Education: Kiev University, Institute of International Relations, International Law Department.

Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Practice: international private law, corporate law, civil law, taxes, labour law, real estate, litigation and arbitration, enforcement of judgments.    

Mr. Chumak has got practical experience in:

  • Legal advice to the network of supermarkets, including purchase of real estate for shops, working out model contracts for the purchase of goods
  • Representation of international clients at the International Arbitration court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine; recognition of foreign jurisdiction judgments in Ukraine; enforcement of foreign jurisdiction judgments and arbitral awards at the bodies of state enforcement service
  • Legal advice to pharmaceutical companies and companies selling medicine, advice on carrying out tenders, disputing the results of the tenders, licensing in the medical sphere
  • Providing consultations to software merchandising companies, working out model contracts, external economic contracts, advising on licensing for export/import CDs, systems of cryptographic protection of information
  • Carrying out re-organization, mergers and acquisitions of companies, registration of representative offices of foreign companies and companies with foreign investments  
  • Advising agricultural companies, division of property of members of collective agricultural companies, representation of interests in the land disputes at courts
  • Tax advice, representation in tax disputes at courts
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Vladislav Shapoval  (shapoval@lexfor.com)

Partner

Education: Kiev University Law School. Postgraduate studies at the Ukrainian President Academy of Public Service.

Languages: English, Russian. Ukrainian.

Spheres of practice: intellectual property law, contract law, competition law, protection from unfair competition, advertisement law, bankruptcy, labour law, family law, litigation.

Experience of Mr. Shapoval includes: 

  • Legal support for “anti-piracy” campaign in Ukraine for the protection of copyright of a multinational corporation – software producer, protection of trade marks from illegal use in the Internet and domain names
  • Representation of interests and mediation in conflicts on violation of copyright and related rights of well-known performers
  • Litigation in Ukraine for the protection of world well-known trade marks (alcoholic drinks, perfumes etc.), negotiating peaceful settlement of such disputes, drafting agreements
  • Legal advice on negotiating and execution of license agreements between Ukrainian mass media and European edition on the use of trade mark and copyrights
  • Advising investors of the issue of technology transfer, acquisition of rights to inventions and industrial designs
  • Representation of clients in various disputes for the protection on intellectual property (conflict of trade mark and company name, protection from unfair competition, invalidation of contracts on transfer of trade marks etc.)
  • Working out schemes of formalizing contractual relations within a holding with regard to transfer of property copyright (between shareholders, between employers and employees, between the holding company and its partners)
  • Legal support for a number of court cases and negotiations on vindication of a cargo aircraft from illegal possession
  • Litigating and collection of debts from Ukrainian debtors for the foreign companies on commercial contracts
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