The banking and finance team at Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office advises on complex mandates across agricultural and renewable energy projects, financial regulation, sector reform, and FinTech. The practice is led by Kyiv-based managing partner Serhiy Chorny, who focuses on transactions involving financial institutions and governance matters in commercial banks. Viacheslav Yakymchuk, head of the equity capital markets team, handles cross-border and capital markets transactions. Regulatory specialist Bohdan Diakovych advises on financial monitoring, local currency issues, and capital controls.
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Key clients
- International Finance Corporation
- Black Sea Trade and Development Bank
- European Investment Bank
- Citibank N.A.
- Citibank Ukraine
- Raiffeisenbank International
- Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine
- Credit Agricole Indosuez
- Cargill Financial Services
- Mastercard
- Western Union
- Bayerische Landesbank
Work highlights
Acted as Ukrainian law counsel to the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank in connection with their loans provided to Limited Liability Company "Epicentr K" and Renvior Trading Ltd in 2019 and 2021.
Acted as Ukrainian law counsel to Aragvi Finance International DAC in connection with USD550m 11.125% Secured Notes due 2029.
Represented a consortium of German banks led by Bayerische Landesbank, as Original Lender, Facility Agent, and Security Agent, in connection with a EUR180m loan facility purporting to finance the construction of the 2nd Stage of a 200 MW wind power plant in Zaporizhzha region of Ukraine, with Primorskaya-1 and Primorskaya-2 Wind Electric Plants (members of the DTEK Renewables group) as borrowers.
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Practice head
Serhiy Chorny
Other key lawyers
Viacheslav Yakymchuk; Bohdan Diakovych