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Across over 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Dentons’ long-term commitment to Ukraine is unsurpassed among international law firms. Dentons has been active in Ukraine since 1988, and the firm officially opened the Kyiv office in 1992. Dentons’ practice in Ukraine encompasses the full range of legal services across a diverse range of industries. With strong global capabilities, Dentons is well equipped to assist its clients in a variety of cross-border issues. International experience and in-depth knowledge of Ukrainian legislation, as well as the client-tailored approach, allow the firm to provide innovative, seamless legal solutions of the highest quality.

Main Areas of Practice:

Dentons’ lawyers and professionals provide services in the following practice disciplines and industry sectors:

Corporate and M&A: With a corporate practice that encompasses multibillion-dollar purchases of public companies, corporate governance and formation, venture and private equity investing, compliance and operations, and alliances and breakups in virtually every corner of the world, Dentons’ scope and reach is as broad as the universe of corporate interests.

Competition and Antitrust: Dentons provides legal advice and judicial assistance in all aspects of national and EU competition law, consumer law, state aid, tender procedures and regulatory issues. Clients receive tailored, industry-focused advice on complex litigation, investigations by competition authorities, merger control, competition compliance, or commercial arrangements.

Intellectual Property and Technology: Dentons’ lawyers identify, protect and help commercialize IP in the most highly developed markets — and in jurisdictions where IP laws and enforcement are still evolving. Dentons’ lawyers and technical/scientific advisors represent global corporations, academic and research institutions, inventors and artists, venture capital firms and others invested in patents, trademarks, copyrights and proprietary property.

Banking and Finance: Dentons covers every aspect of banking and capital markets transactions and regulation in the world’s leading financial centres. Dentons helps clients access and invest new sources of capital, develop and use financial products, structure financing transactions, comply with regulations, respond to investigations and resolve disputes.

Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration: Dentons’ highly reputable Litigation and Dispute Resolution lawyers are particularly well known for helping clients resolve disputes in energy, construction and engineering, banking, restructuring and insolvency, life sciences and retail. The team is also highly experienced in EU trade disputes, investigations and international arbitration.

 Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Dentons’ teams formulate strategies that result in the optimal solution for trustees, bondholders, investors, traders, debtors, creditors and creditor committees around the world as it pursues claims for clients through negotiation and litigation.

Public Law and Regulatory: Dentons has unique regional and global capabilities in advising clients on complex and multi-jurisdictional regulatory issues. We help clients navigate the most pressing regulatory challenges such as: ESG, greenwashing, chemicals, climate change, circular economy, public procurement, and defense and security.

Real Estate: The Real Estate practice at Dentons is the largest in the world, and advises real estate owners, investors and lenders on some of the most complex development, acquisition, disposition, debt and equity transactions undertaken in today’s market. Dentons’ hotels and leisure practice is consistently ranked among the best in the world.

Tax: With experience in worldwide jurisdictions, Dentons provides comprehensive tax advice to individuals, private companies, multinationals and other entities on tax planning, compliance, M&A structuring tax advantaged investing, transfer pricing, disputes with tax authorities and more.

Sector focus:

To ensure our lawyers understand the key trends and developments facing your industry, we have established dedicated sector groups focused on the following: Consumer Goods, Energy, Family Office and High Net Worth Individuals, Financial Institutions, Industrials, Insurance, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Real Estate, Sovereign, Technology Media and Telecommunications, and Transport and Infrastructure.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Mr Oleg Batyuk	Oleg Batyuk is the Ukraine Managing Partner and Head of the Ukrainian…	View Profile
	Mr Igor Davydenko	Igor Davydenko is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He has proven…	View Profile
	Ms Oksana Horban	Oksana Horban is a counsel at Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a registered…	View Profile
	Mr Oleg Kuchanskyy	Oleg Kuchanskyy is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. As a member of…	View Profile
	Ms Natalia Levchuk	Natalia Levchuk is a senior associate in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Natalia has…	View Profile
	Artem Lukyanov	Artem Lukyanov is a senior associate in Dentons’ Kyiv office with major…	View Profile
	Mr Ihor Mehedynyuk	Ihor V. Mehedynyuk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He advises…	View Profile
	Mr Volodymyr Monastyrskyy	Volodymyr Monastyrskyy is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office and a member…	View Profile
	Mr Adam Mycyk	Adam Mycyk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Adam has more…	View Profile
	Mrs Evgenia Prudko	Evgenia Prudko is a legal advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office with major…	View Profile
	Mrs Natalia Selyakova	Natalia Selyakova is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office and Head of…	View Profile
	Ms Nadiya Shylienkova	Nadiya Shylienkova is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Nadiya has extensive…	View Profile
	Mr Igor Svitlyk	Igor Svitlyk is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a…	View Profile
	Mr Maksym Sysoiev	Maksym Sysoiev is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a…	View Profile
	Mrs Valeria Tarasenko	Valeria Tarasenko is a tax advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a…	View Profile
	Ms Anna Tkachenko	Anna Tkachenko is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. She concentrates on…	View Profile

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