Konnov & Sozanovsky provides a wide range of services in the area of corporate law. Konnov & Sozanovsky's corporate and competition lawyers advise clients on a broad scope of corporate issues related to business activity in different areas, corporate reorganizations and M&A issues. We also have a strong practice in representing clients before the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC), in particular in obtaining consents for concentrations and concerted practices.

 

Corporate Consulting

• Advising clients on optimal procedural and institutional schemes for conducting business in Ukraine
• Preparing documents for establishing and registering companies as well as for launching commercial activity (articles of association, protocols, and local acts)
• Registering all procedural and institutional forms of legal entities, separate subdivisions, representative offices of foreign companies 
• Providing legal assistance in establishing holding companies, association of legal entities, joint ventures, asset management companies, investment funds, including obtaining of all necessary permissions, together with registration of capital issues
• Providing legal assistance in reorganizing and liquidating companies
• Arranging convocations and holding general meetings of all shareholders (members)
• Providing comprehensive legal support in transactional matters, including developing the optimal structure of a deal with full legal involvement in acquisition negotiations, including preparation of required documents
• Providing legal advice on business restructuring
• Performing legal due diligence of companies

Formulation of Labor Relations with Public Bodies

• Formulating labor contracts with managers and members of managing bodies
• Providing legal support for cessation of labor relations
• Advising on peculiarities of labor relations with foreigners, obtaining permissions on employment, registration certificates

Legal Support of Investment Activity

• Advising on the particulars of investing, recovery of investments, receiving of profit, compliance with requirements of currency control
• Investment accounts opening
• Registration of foreign investments
• Obtaining licenses of the National Bank of Ukraine for the right to perform foreign exchange transactions

Securities Transactions

• Offering legal support for securities transactions, including inter alia, bank papers
• Offering legal support for emissions; rendering services on registration of capital issues
• Providing legal assistance for cessation of securities exchange and annulment of securities issuance
• Representing clients before the State Commission on Securities and Stock Market of Ukraine and its territorial administrations

During 2006 and 2007, Konnov & Sozanovsky’s lawyers were engaged in a number of various projects:

• Advising foreign companies on acquisition of a share in a large trade and exhibition center in Kiev
• Providing corporate restructuring advice to an advertising concern; working out the corporate structure
• Providing legal assistance within share purchase agreements in Ukrainian film production and distribution companies
• Legal support for business restructuring process in a Ukrainian industrial holding
• Legal advice to companies on optimization of corporate structure
• Providing pre-acquisition due diligence of Ukrainian companies in various market segments
• Legal support for an acquisition of various shares in the Ukrainian company to carry out mining operations
• Creating and legally registering an assets management company and venture fund for a construction company
• Notifying to the AMC a number of transactions between international investments funds
• Notifying to the AMC a transaction between an international telecommunication company and systems engineering company
• Advising a group of Ukrainian media companies on concerted practices issues; representing before the AMC
• Advising a Polish group of companies on competition issues of Ukrainian legislation and notifying to the AMC number of transactions between the group and Ukrainian retailers
• Advising client on competition issues of a transaction between European construction materials producers.

M&A Practice (PDF)