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Integrated with our other transactional teams, our corporate commercial practice is ideally positioned to add value to our clients.Our key advantage is the broad expertise that helps us to address diverse situations. Our lawyers combine industry knowledge and local expertise with the ability to tailor innovative solutions to businesses of all types and sizes. Our advice is efficient, timely and to the point because we are constantly engaged in helping our clients at every stage of their businesses’ life cycles.

This practice covers all corporate and trading activities of a business. Our corporate governance lawyers are the true innovators in this area. By virtue of their regular participation in drafting and developing сorporate legislation in Ukraine, they are leading experts on how to apply it commercially.

We help our clients address the sector-specific regulatory compliance challenges in regulated industries. We develop and test compliance programmes to satisfy general needs of the clients.

We are experts in the full range of commercial contracts – customer and supplier, franchising, contractual liability, logistics, sales promotion and distributorships, outsourcing, e-commerce, licensing, agency and advertising. Our clients’ day-to-day businesses matter as much for us as stand-alone projects.

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What the team is known for

Aequo's M&A practice group receives significant instructions from private equity funds as well as notable local and international companies. The team assists with domestic and cross-border M&A transactions as well as joint venture projects. The practice represents high net worth individuals in acquisitions and disposals. The law firm also handles corporate restructuring matters. The team has practical experience handling deals in pharmaceuticals, information technology, retail and agriculture, and also assists energy and industrial companies. The practice group has a strong track record in handling private equity transactions, representing private equity funds and venture capital firms. The corporate team also regularly works in cooperation with international law firms.

Work Highlights

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  • Aequo assisted Brave, a def-tech cluster, with its launch in Ukraine in late April 2023 with the State of Ukraine as a minority investor.

Notable Practitioners

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Anna Babych
Anna Babych
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Head of department Anna Babych ia a top-tier practitioner known for her skilful handling of notable transactions in a range of industries including retail and pharmaceuticals.

Denis Lysenko
Denis Lysenko
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Executive partner Denis Lysenko is recognised for his experience in share and asset transactions as well as corporate restructurings.

Michael Lukashenko
Michael Lukashenko
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Michael Lukashenko regularly assists with a broad range of corporate matters including transactions, joint ventures and restructurings.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Corporate/M&A

Anna Babych
Anna Babych
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Denis Lysenko
Denis Lysenko
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Michael Lukashenko
Michael Lukashenko
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Members

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Anna Babych

Anna Babych

Head of Department

Kyrpa Yulia

Clients

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Ardagh Group

Epicenter-K

George's Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund

GlaxoSmithKline

Google

Inditex

Ipsos

Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP)

Nova Poshta

Novus Ukraine

UniCredit Group

Vodafone Ukraine

Industries

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Banks

Charities / Not for Profit

Chemicals

Commercial & Professional Services

Consumer Product Manufacturing

Energy

Financial Services

Health Care

Media

Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

Private Clients / Individuals

Retail

Software & Computer Services

Technology, Hardware & Electronics

Telecommunications

Utilities