The Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy's ("Ministry") recent draft law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine with regard to Strengthening the Protection of Employees' Rights ...

On 15-19 June 2016 the first IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum (IBA ECA Forum 2016) was successfully held in Kyiv (15-17 June) and Lviv (18-19 June), bringing together over 100 legal profession leaders from 27 countries!

Ukraine's international obligations regarding reform of the country's electricity market are determined by the Treaty establishing the Energy Community

While foreign investors are very cautious towards Ukrainian assets and M&A deals are dramatically determined by the general investment climate in the country, lawyers have to monitor the situation and work out timely solutions for proposed deals.

The ban came into force on 1 January 2016 and will be effective until 5 August 2016 but may be extended by the decision of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation.

On 19 March 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law introducing further amendments to the Joint Stock Companies Law of Ukraine (the Law)...

After many years of a rather slow and inconsistent development of regulation of corruption in Ukraine and continuous problem of coordination of the anti-corruption incentives between different branches of the Ukrainian government in this area, and repeated delaying of coming into force and later annulment of the package of the anti-corruption laws, the Ukrainian Parliament finally adopted the New Law and the New Liability Law.

The Ukrainian Parliament's adoption of the Law on the Judicial System and the Status of Judges (the ‘Law on Judicial System') on 2 June 2016 laid the groundwork for all subsequent changes...

In the previous issues of Brands Update we brought the readers' attention to the importance of collecting the proper evidentiary basis in counterfeiting cases.

The court found that "KAMIANKA GLOBAL WINE" LLC (Plaintiff) is the licensee of the Trademark that is also authorized to protect intellectual property rights in the Trademark.

In 2012 a number of foreign trade issues were making headlines in Ukraine.One of the most important and anticipated changes was entering into force of the new Customs Code of Ukraine. Furthermore, Ukraine continued its efforts in regional trade liberalization including ratification of the new CIS Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement with Montenegro.

The OverRuled: Russia Trade Controls Resource Center has been updated with the following actions...

On 27 May 2016, the WTO Secretariat published the annual report covering the key developments of the world trade policy within the organization's framework in 2015.

Implementation of commercial contracts involving parties or assets in ATO territory has been affected, or in some cases, precluded.

On 23 March 2017, the Parliament of Ukraine passed a number of draft laws that were highly anticipated by both Ukrainian business community and foreign investors.

For many Ukrainian companies (and not only those affected by the FCPA/UKBA) the year of 2014 will be marked as a point of no return in their compliance efforts undertaken so far.

In the course of this week, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has been actively imposing and revoking restrictions and prohibitions on foreign currency transactions.

Between the effective date of the Law and 26 October 2014 a large scale dismissal campaign within the government should be launched and completed.

International standards could make the Ukrainian construction industry more transparent but a range of implementation issues demand attention.

For convenience, in this questionnaire, clause references are references to clauses in the 1999 FIDIC Red Book.