Peterka & Partners, a leading Central and Eastern European law firm, has announced the opening of a new office in Croatia. The new office, located in Zagreb, became operational on 1 March 2023. This marks an important milestone for the firm, which has been working towards expanding its presence to Croatia for the past seven years. The new office will provide comprehensive legal services for both international and domestic clients in Croatia.
On March 16, a preliminary presentation of a unique online legal platform that will be available to every Ukrainian, wherever they are, took place in Kyiv on the territory of UNIT.City, Ukraine's first innovation park.
Deal activity across Europe maintained a steady pace in 2022 despite the increasing number of economic headwinds, according to the latest annual European M&A study by global law firm CMS.
The UK Supreme Court has handed down its judgment to send for a full public trial the legal proceedings initiated on behalf of Russia relating to the US$3 billion Eurobonds issued by Ukraine in December 2013.
In February 2023, Ukrainian Law Firm EVERLEGAL presented its second Sustainability Report. It covers the firm’s support, approach, achievements, and future priority commitments, aligned with where EVERLEGAL team feels they can make the most significant contribution to Ukrainian freedom and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Today, 24 February 2023, marks exactly one year since Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered the illegal invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation. On this anniversary of the start of the war, the International Bar Association (IBA), founded to promote and protect the rule of law and international justice, reiterates its condemnation of the invasion and looks at what the future holds for holding to account the aggressor and others who may have committed war crimes.
Asters has successfully defended interests of PrivatBank in the Supreme Court. On 15 February 2023, the Court delivered the final ruling, stopping the ex-owners' attempt to return PrivatBank, which was nationalized in 2016.
Dmytro Marchukov, partner and Head of Cross-Border Litigation at INTEGRITES, took part in the Fraud and Asset Recovery in Times of War panel session at the 5th Asset Recovery International conference organised by Informa Connect in Dublin on 1 – 3 February 2023.
International law firm CMS has advised a syndicate of banks led by ING Bank N.V. in relation to the postponement of loan payments under the USD 450m pre-export facility for Ukraine’s Kernel Group. The terms of repayments postponement have been developed and agreed in parallel for several bank creditors of Kernel, including Natixis, EBRD and EIB, following a fair treatment principal approach.
INTEGRITES unveils new results of the annual evaluation: senior associates Inna Kostrytska and Kristina Shyposha are promoted to counsel effective from January 2023. From now on, Inna and Kristina will lead the Employment and Business protection, compliance and anti-corruption practices respectively.
INTEGRITES, the Ministry of Veterans’ Affairs of Ukraine and the Affordable Housing Institute* (USA) signed a collaboration agreement aimed at housing development for war veterans and their families.
Effective from 1 January 2023 Asters' Senior Associates Yuna Potomkina (Alternative Dispute Resolution) and Sergiy Dusanovsky (Litigation) have been promoted to Counsels.
International law firm CMS has advised The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on a EUR 10.8 million loan to Serbian company Stax Technologies (Stax).
PwC is pleased to announce the new focus and name for the Tax and Legal Services in Ukraine, and recent changes within its leadership team, effective 1 January 2023.
Asters acts as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its EUR 10 million financing for Grain Alliance Group, a Swedish-owned large-sized agricultural holding in Ukraine that cultivates around 60,000 hectares of land.