On March 12, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") published its summary report (the "Report") on its enforcement record for 2012.

Serhiy Verlanov, who has been a partner at Sayenko Kharenko for over three years, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Ukraine's competition laws, particularly those relating to merger control, have been eagerly anticipated to undergo significant revisions. Despite repeated attempts...

Just a month before the beginning of 2018, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) approved methodological recommendations on the assessment of influence of (draft) laws ...

On 22 February, the Government Decree No. 1104 supplementing Law of Ukraine "On Temporary Peculiarities of State Supervision (Control) in the Sphere of Business Activity" No. 1728-VIII (the Decree) was published.

On 29 December 2017, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") published for comments and suggestions the draft methodology of market definition outlining the definition to be applied ...

The Recommendations highlight the methodology used by the AMC to calculate fines and introduce a one year amnesty period for merger control violations.

On 29 December 2017, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") published for comments and suggestions the draft methodology of market definition outlining the definition to be applied...

Effective from 21 December 2017, the National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") has updated its regulations to allow the actual use of escrow accounts in Ukraine.

In June, the "Breathe" Charity Fund continued to make a difference in the lives of people affected by the war in Ukraine.

As a part of the ongoing liberalisation of the currency control, the National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") adopted Resolution No. 61 dated 10 July 2017 (effective from 11 July 2017) which lifted...

Effective from today, 13 September 2017, the National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") has introduced the following changes relaxing certain currency control restrictions and simplifying procedures....

With effect from 19 August 2016, the National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") abolished the requirement for Ukrainian residents to obtain a price evaluation act – an approval from State Enterprise "State Research and Information Centre for International Commodity Markets Monitoring" ("Derzhzovnishinform") – for cross-border payments for purchases of IP rights from foreign residents for the value exceeding EUR 50,000.

Safeguard duties on import of passenger cars to Ukraine will be revoked as of 30 September 2015.

On 2 October, Ukrainian MPs voted to cancel a range of longstanding restrictions on privatization, paving the way for what policy-makers promise will be a new wave of privatization in the country.

Established in mid-2017, UA Direct is a Kyiv-based investment management company seeking to tap into growing investor interest in Ukraine by offering partnership opportunities to investors looking to launch new projects in the country.

On 31 January 2015, the amendments to the Joint Stock Companies Law reducing the quorum for the general shareholders' meeting of a joint stock company entered into force.

With effect from 26 March 2016, the National Bank of Ukraine (the "NBU") has excluded export-credit agency loans from cross-border loan prepayment restrictions and made several adjustments that, among other, enable the parties to modify interest payment terms of cross-border loans.

Because the Act was written in secrecy, it expectedly provoked criticism from all actors, including legal experts, civic society activists, judiciary and law enforcement branch of the government.

Diia City, a special legal and tax regime for IT industry is becoming more popular among IT/tech companies. Early birds time has gone. Now it's time of those who's in and who's out.