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The Ukrainian Journal of Business Law (UJBL) has been published in English since 2003 on a monthly basis (10 issues per year) and covers both the most relevant issues regarding doing business in Ukraine and indicative international experience.
The Journal’s readers include managers and lawyers of leading international and Ukrainian companies; visitors and employees of foreign embassies in Ukraine; representatives of international organizations and think tanks; members of leading business (AmCham, EBA) and law associations (Ukrainian Bar Association); participants of local and global conferences. The UJBL constantly attracts the attention of foreign businessmen interested in Ukrainian legislation and rules of doing business in our country.
For more information, please visit the Journal’s web-site: www.ujbl.info
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The Global Legal Chronicle is a web-based publication covering deals and cases taking place all over the world.
The information is then conveniently organized according to geographic areas and jurisdictions. The Studies & Research section offers legal market updates while the Legal Opinion section features in-depth technical legal coverage and discussions on major changes in law.
For more information, please visit the Global Legal Chronicle’s web-site: www.globallegalchronicle.com
PBV Monitor is the only existing business intelligence platform that gathers information on deals closed almost all over the world and collects them in a meaningful way according for jurisdiction, practice areas, industries, law firms and fee earners thus creating a formidable database which enables a wide array of analysis and investigations.
Moreover, our analyst’s team collects client’s qualitative evaluations of the lawyers involved in the transactions which provide a reliable rating of the fee earners. Today our platform analyzes more than 36.000 business lawyers and 7.000 law firms in 77 jurisdictions.
For more information, please visit the PBV Monitor’s web-site:
CIS law firms Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners and the Pepeliaev Group took the first two places in Pravo.ru’s rankings of the top 50 Law Firms for 2012 by revenue, with international law firm Dentons coming in third.
Pravo.ru’s rankings were based on figures the companies themselves provided for 2012, though specific figures were not provided.
The complete list can be found at: pravo.ru/stat/rating2013_results/finance
The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes granted Ioan Micula and three of his companies – represented by King & Spalding – a USD 250 million award against the Republic of Romania.
It found that Romania’s early termination of a multi-year incentive program was improper, despite evidence showing that Romania was required to terminate the program prematurely to comply with European Union law.
Although the EU Commission intervened in the case on behalf of Romania, the ICSID rejected the suggestion that a State can rely on its EU obligations to escape liability when it has violated specific legal protections owed to foreign investors. As a result, King & Spalding claims that this award “could have an impact on the evolution of international law.”
King & Spalding international arbitration Partners Eric Schwartz, Reggie Smith, Ken Fleuriet, and Craig Miles worked on the case, along with counsel Ric Toher, senior associate Amy Frey, and associate Jamie Miller.
Ukrainian Vasil Kisil & Partners advised the Epicenter Group as a strategic investor in the acquisition of Nova Linia group of companies.
The project involved a pre-restructuring of group’s companies and the transition of operational control to the buyer in several stages, as well as a complex package of security items and other challenging aspects. In addition, the firm represented Epicenter before the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, following which the Committee issued a merger clearance.
VKP Partner Denis Lysenko provided overall project management and was actively involved in the negotiation process at all stages of the transaction. The project involved a large number of partners and associates in the firm, including particularly Counsellor Ivan Yurchenko and Associates Vasyl Mishchenko and Oleksandr Tereshchenko.
Kinstellar has advised Vinci Concessions and Meridiam Infrastructure as sponsors and Granvia, as issuer, project company and concessionaire, on the EUR 1.24 billion refinancing of the R1 Expressway.
This was one of the largest PPP project bonds ever brought to market, and was the first project bond for a Slovak issuer. The refinancing is expected to save the Slovak government more than EUR 100 million over the life of the project.
Deutsche Bank London Branch acted as sole arranger and global coordinator for the offering, as well as joint book runner alongside Natixis.
The Kinstellar team was led by Partners Patrik Bolf and Adam Hodon and Managing Associate Miroslav Kapinaj. Linklaters acted as international counsel to the sponsors and the issuer, and Allen & Overy advised Deutsche Bank, Natixis and Law Debenture as security agent.
Raidla Lejins & Norcous was named Baltic Legal Advisor of 2013 in December’s Financial Times & Mergermarket European Awards in London.
In 2013, the firm advised on more than 100 transactions in the Baltic countries, with an aggregate value of more than EUR 1 billion. The firm claims that its deal volume placed it in 5th place of all CEE firms for 2013.
Partner Sven Papp, the head of RLN’s M&A and Corporate practices, described the award as “the most prestigious award for transactional lawyers”, and went on to add that “this is also the highest recognition of the trust of our clients, who provide us the opportunity to prove our experience and professionalism on bet-the-company deals.”
The Vienna office of CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati announced it will be extending its partnership as of January 1, 2014 with the addition of Mark Krenn.
Krenn graduated from the University of Vienna in 2003 and has been working with CHSH since 2004. He specializes in M&A, TMT, and outsourcing.