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Corporate law

We will offer you a comprehensive approach in creation of the optimal corporate structure of your business, we will act as your advisors in mergers and acquisitions, as well as advise on the issuance of securities on capital markets.

Project finance, Banking & Financial law

We cooperate with individual and institutional investors, accompany the investor throughout his business in Ukraine and have many times acted as legal advisers to our clients in investment projects financed by our clients and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We cooperate with Ukrainian commercial banks and financial companies by providing them with a vide range of legal services.

Sports law

Our team has significant experience in cooperation with Ukrainian football clubs. We will advise you on the licensing of your football club within the current regulations, we will act as legal advisers to the professional player or football club in transfers. We are ready to represent the interests of football clubs and professional players in Ukrainian football justice authorities and abroad.

Business law

We are ready to ensure the creation and further functioning of your company’s legal department in accordance with your requirements. We have experience of cooperation with both – companies where we created the legal department and, in further, provided constant legal support, and with large businesses whose legal departments hand over part of their work to us.

Litigation and dispute resolution

You need a litigation victory but not only a positive judgment. So that the judgment shall anyway have a significant commercial value. Understanding this we are actively working to achieve the specific goals of those whom we do represent. We have significant experience of representation in national courts of Ukraine, international commercial arbitration courts and in sports arbitration.

Bankruptcy and restructuring

We are ready to offer the client proven algorithms for repaying bad debts, counteract the dishonest actions of your debtors and use bankruptcy as a tool to close or reset your business in Ukraine. We have experience of representation in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings with the participation of foreign companies as claimants and bankruptcies.

Antitrust and competition law

Our team has experience in representing clients in the investigations of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. We are ready to protect the interests of your business by appealing to the committee.

Taxation

We are ready to help you to reduce the tax burden in a way that will fully comply with applicable law and best tax practices. You can count on us in cases of ambiguous interpretation of tax and customs legislation, tax inspections or tax audits of M&A transactions. We defend our recommendations on tax and customs issues accompanying the procedures of administrative and judicial appeal of illegal decisions and actions of tax authorities as well as represent the interests of our clients in the national courts of Ukraine.

Criminal law

We defend the client by ensuring compliance with the best practices and law of the European Court of Human Rights. We always focus on qualitive risk analysis and professional preparation for defence.

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Yosyf Ivanyuk

Managing Partner, Attorney-at-law Download VCARD

Practice areas: project finance, sports law, litigation and dispute resolution, antitrust and competition law, tax and corporate.

Petro Bilan

Executive Partner, Attorney-at-law Download VCARD

Practice areas: corporate law, business law, litigation, bankruptcy and restructuring, criminal defense.

Practice areas:

– project finance,
– sports law,
– litigation and dispute resolution,
– antitrust and competition law,
– tax and corporate.

Education:

– Master of Laws, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Languages:

– English,
– Ukrainian.

Major Projects:

– Advised the clients on football licensing issues and transfers of professional football players,

– Advised foreign clients on entering Ukrainian market, tax optimization of a group’s activities and on transfer pricing issues,

– Advised the clients on initiation of proceedings in the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine on unfair overpricing of raw materials (untreated wood) by state enterprises,

– Advised the clients on initiation of proceedings in the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine on anticompetitive concerted actions by Ministry of Sports of Ukraine and major Lviv state enterprise owing a football stadium,

– Advised the clients during implementation of investment projects co-financed by the European bank for reconstruction and development,

– Advised the clients on the loan transactions with the European bank for reconstruction and development,

– Represented the clients in arbitration at the cases against the non-residents (and vice-versa),

– Represented the clients in UAF Dispute Resolution Chamber, UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee, UAF Appeals Committee,

– Represented the clients in tax cases before domestic administrative courts.

Practice areas:

– corporate law,
– business law,
– litigation,
– bankruptcy and restructuring,

– criminal defense.

Education:

– Master of Laws, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Languages:

– English,
– Ukrainian.

Major Projects:

– Advised the clients on its foreign trade transactions with non-residents, collaterals, bank guarantees and letters of credit,

– Advised foreign clients on entering Ukrainian market and corporate structuring of a group,

– Litigation in cases against Privat Bank and Universal Bank,

– Release of property from arrests within litigation initiated by lawsuits of commercial banks,

– Litigation in cases regarding unlawful actions of debt collection companies on microcredit market,

– Litigation in cases regarding collection of insurance indemnities from Ukrainian insurance companies,

– Litigation in cases against public authorities (State Building Control Department) and local governments regarding construction activities of the clients,

– Litigation in tax cases before domestic administrative courts,

– Representation of clients in the bankruptcy and restructuring cases,

– Defense of clients in criminal cases over economic crimes.

We continue our work!

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The war has brought significant changes into the lives of each of us. We understand the critical need to continue our business activities and help Ukrainian economics in the current situation. Consequently, the firm continues its work and the expansion which has began in 2021.

Please have a look at short presentation about our history, us and what we do.

We have joined EBA!

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Simplex Legal & Finance has joined European Business Association in May 2022!

The war has brought significant changes into the lives of each of us. We understand the critical need to continue our business and help Ukrainian economics in the current situation. Consequently, the firm continues its work and the expansion which has began in 2021.

Please have a look at short presentation about our history, us and what we do.

Simplex Legal & Finance has joined European Business Association in May 2022!

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