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business’ support specialization
experienced counsel of the
highest quality
creative commercial solutions
for complex matters
Law company Prokopenko and partners аn association of law professionals and Attorneys-at-law, successful practice in the legal service sphere since 2003

Our
specialization

business’
support specialization

We are
selling

experienced counsel
of the highest quality

We
provide

creative commercial
solutions for complex matters
Law company Prokopenko and partners аn association of law professionals and Attorneys-at-law, successful practice in the legal service sphere since 2003

Our
specialization

business’
support specialization

We are
selling

experienced counsel
of the highest quality

We
provide

creative commercial
solutions for complex matters
Law company Prokopenko and partners аn association of law professionals and Attorneys-at-law, successful practice in the legal service sphere since 2003

Our
specialization

business’
support specialization

We are
selling

experienced counsel
of the highest quality

We
provide

creative commercial
solutions for complex matters
Law company Prokopenko and partners аn association of law professionals and Attorneys-at-law, successful practice in the legal service sphere since 2003

Our
specialization

business’
support specialization

We are
selling

experienced counsel
of the highest quality

We
provide

creative commercial
solutions for complex matters

Experience
in business

Law company Prokopenko and partners has dealt with a wide range of commercial law matters and provided legal service to domestic and foreign companies.

We look to provide an alternative to large law firms and are dedicated to personal service. We are results driven, trying to make a cost effective and valuable contribution to our client’s business success

Quality and Commitment

We are not obsessed with an ambition to be a large and famous law firm. Our vision is to provide experienced counsel of the highest quality.

We are seeking to provide preventative legal advice, before issues get out of control.

Our attorneys are practical problem-solvers. Once the objective is clear, we put together teams with the specific blend of knowledge and skills that can move a project forward and achieve results.

Our approach is to act quickly responding to client’s request with quality assured services

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Effectiveness

We aim to assist our client in a number of ways: creating options, legal consulting, preparing legal documents and negotiating as well as transactional support, litigation and arbitration. However we assist we offer guidance to achieve realistic and effective goals aimed at making sound decisions in a commercial context.

We protect our clients’ rights and enhance the value of their businesses.

Deep knowledge and relevant experience. Understanding of business priorities. Certainly appreciation of client objectives. Creativity. Timely delivery. Legal issues explained with clarity to enable decisions making.

These are aspects that we have built into our practice to maintain high standard of legal service and professional reputation

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Expertise

Our staff lawyers are high-experienced and like-minded persons who are united by a purpose to find the best possible solution for clients because people’s prosperity is at stake.

The scope of our legal advisory services is various. We specialize in contract and property law, corporate managing, mergers and acquisitions, tax and competition law, insolvency, real estate transactions and land law, financial transactions and securities.

Our clients are commercial businesses and financial institutions, involved in corporate, commercial and financial transactions and complex disputes proceedings

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Practice Areas

  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate transactions, M&A
  • Competition law
  • Commercial agreements
  • Commercial property, Real Estate, Land
  • Tax planning, controversies and litigation
  • Litigation, International Arbitration
  • Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring
  • Intellectual property, Copyright

Практика

  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate transactions, M&A
  • Competition law
  • Commercial agreements
  • Commercial property, Real Estate, Land
  • Tax planning, controversies and litigation
  • Litigation, International Arbitration
  • Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring
  • Intellectual property, Copyright

Corporate governance

Our lawyers have extensive experience in the corporate governance area and have provided counsel on a wide scope of matters, ranging from guidance on applicable regulatory regimes of business activity to assisting in the development of effective compliance programs.

With enhanced regulatory standards at the state level, the liabilities associated with corporate governance and oversight has intensified. Even small matters can spin out of control in company that lacks sound oversight practices and a well-considered plan for managing compliance.

As part of our general representation of clients, we regularly review and prepare internal corporate policies addressing legal and governance matters. We have prepared and assisted in considerations of companies’ constitutions, employment contracts and companies’ by-laws. We advise on the full range of relevant issues.

Our task is to ensure that shareholders’ interests are properly protected and trustees’ responsibilities are duly structured. The value of our advice is realized when shareholders are in dispute. The dispute is generally avoided due to professional preparation of corporate documentation.

We counsel on all aspects of corporate leadership, management, public reporting, and litigation defence. We help companies anticipate, detect, manage and avoid problems whenever possible and our response to litigation or enforcement activity is swift and effective.

We have provided corporate legal advice in respect to:

  • company formation and support of shares issuance
  • company management
  • setting up joint venture entities
  • development of compliance programs
  • board of directors and oversight bodies composition, practices, and procedures
  • directors’ duties and responsibilities
  • revising existing companies’ programs, policies, and procedures
  • drafting companies’ by-laws
  • securing property interests
  • risk management
  • employment matters
  • defending company in court and government enforcement proceedings
  • restructurings and reorganization
  • liquidation

Corporate transactions, M&A

Advising clients on acquisitions, restructurings and mergers is undoubtedly one of the firm’s most important areas of focus.

Corporate and M&A transactions are increasingly complex, often involving diverse areas of expertise, such as company, competition, tax, finance and labour law. In this respect, with a wealth of expertise at its disposal, we are able to provide clients with teams to oversee and provide counsel throughout the entire process, from due diligence to negotiation and from signing to closing of the transaction.

Every corporate transaction demands the right structure, careful risk analysis and forward planning to ensure that the projected value in the deal is realized. The antitrust, regulatory and governance issues must be understood. The finance, tax, employment requirements and security of property interests must be aligned with the strategic objectives of the deal.

The ability of our lawyers to coordinate complex transactions successfully, address regulatory requirements, prepare local documentation, advise on tax matters, assist in due diligence investigations and deliver the required legal opinions is an aspect of our practice.

We protect the value in the deal by using well-established processes to identify, analyze and mitigate the risks arising in corporate transactions.

Our firm serves clients to assure that solutions are tailored to specific needs. Our legal service includes:

  • assisting in buying and selling business
  • legal due diligence
  • analysis of pending litigation
  • patent and trademark review
  • environmental audit
  • labor relations
  • analysis of regulatory compliance
  • tax planning and reporting
  • securities law compliance, registration, and reporting
  • guidance on complying with competition law
  • corporate governance issues
  • litigation and dispute resolution

Competition law

Antitrust regulation is an aspect of legislation aimed to limiting anti-competitive concentration to ensure that the combination of companies will not have any anticompetitive effects.

Our company’s antitrust experience, knowledge and understanding of the industry involved transforms into our ability to make sound judgments for our clients in high-risk antitrust assignments.

We supervise antitrust clearances on a daily basis in a vast variety of industries and product areas. Our knowledge allows us to make quick assessments whether a transaction could trigger antitrust issue and require antitrust filings.

Our lawyers have provided advice on the competition law implications of mergers, shares transfer, joint ventures and other complex transactions.

Anti-competition prevention is worth millions in litigation costs. We help our clients avoid those costs with counselling on all aspects of market behaviour, including relationships with suppliers, distributors, competitors, trade associations and industry groups; exclusive-dealing, tying and monopolization issues; the formation and operation of joint ventures; and merger planning.

Commercial agreements

We have accumulated significant knowledge and experience providing contract oriented legal advice. Our team has dedicated commercial lawyers who are working on deals ranging from straightforward agreements to complex multi-party projects spanning multiple jurisdictions.

Our company has assisted in advising a wide range of business in a number of sectors and industries, including manufacturing, financial institutions, marketing, trading, banking, insurance, construction, media as well as has handled major projects for companies across sectors.

We support business in a variety of ways. We work with clients to structure and document commercial relationships, we draft the range of documents necessary to create and preserve these relationships, negotiate contracts, advise on contractual risk, regulatory compliance, enforceability of contracts, managing of liability.

Our advice covers all kinds of commercial agreements including purchase and supply, agency and distribution, franchise, logistics and warehousing, assets management, commercial outsourcing, joint ventures. We represent clients at all points in the manufacture, supply, procurement and distribution chain.

Our legal advice focused on the affect of the law in documents and ascertaining whether objectives and expectations are met in those documents. We use a practical approach to transactions, which enable to exercise agreement and enforce it if the need arises.

We dedicated to efficient and reliable deal execution. We perform post-contract management and administration, give legal advice in formulating claims and resolving disputes.

Commercial property,
Real Estate, Land Use

Our real estate practice is broad-based and comprehensive. Our lawyers specialize in commercial property and real estate transfer and related matters representing owners, lenders, developers, investors and other major players in the real estate industry in the following areas:

  • Acquisitions and dispositions
  • Joint ventures, partnerships and equity investments
  • Financing, securitization and other capital markets transactions
  • Bankruptcy and restructuring work, including workouts and distressed real estate investment
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Development work
  • Commercial leasing
  • Real estate management
  • Tax matters
  • Construction claims and litigation

We represent clients in the development of complex, large-scale real estate projects throughout the country, including industrial premises, office blocks, manufacturing depots and retail units.

We involve in all aspects of a project, including land assemblage and acquisition, organizing and structuring transactions, joint venture structuring and financing, construction and mortgage, project development agreements, management of project space, and all other stages of project development.

Our land use practice encompasses all aspects affecting the use and development of land including relevant permits and approvals, establishment and maintenance of relationships with local governing bodies and administrators, as well as developers and municipal service.

Within these types of transactions, a series of issues may arise that lead up to the execution of an agreement. Ensuring that the rights to ownership in and to dispose of the property exist is amongst the matters upon which we have provided legal advice, in addition to protection and management of those rights.

We assist in tax, corporate and securities issues, litigation to manage all aspects of today’s sophisticated real estate transactions.

We practice in such areas as a lease, easements, emphitevzis, syperficies.

Our deep knowledge of the business of real estate allows us to add substantial value to any transaction in which we are involved.

Tax planning,
controversies and litigation

Business looks for reliable advice on tax issues. Our professionals both monitor and influence new developments in the tax laws.

We offer comprehensive tax services and regularly advise companies and individuals to facilitate complex transactions, develop sound tax planning strategies, help resolve controversies and offer practical and efficient solutions.

Our tax attorneys have extensive experience advising clients on a full range of corporate and financing transactions. Our practice is focused on helping our clients minimise taxes associated with their ongoing business operations. We handle audits, administrative appeals to resolve disputes with tax authorities.

We understand that most clients prefer to resolve tax controversies without litigation. We begin every engagement by clearly understanding the client’s priorities and pursuing these. Our attorneys have the substantive skills to «dig in», to isolate the necessary facts and issues, to accurately determine the settlement with the tax authorities, and to negotiate a settlement that protects the client’s interests.

In some cases, effective representation of our clients is only achieved we take the dispute to the courtroom. We have successfully litigated a wide variety of tax cases in courts.

Litigation, International Arbitration

When a dispute surfaces in today's business world, companies and individuals face risk on a variety of fronts: the threat of civil litigation, the prospect of investigations and enforcement by regulators, media and public scrutiny.

Our company provides clients with creative and result-oriented litigation counsel in matters ranging from major commercial disputes to sensitive internal investigations. We’re committed to bringing value by offering creative, timely and strategic advice to help solve complex legal issues.

We collaborate with clients to develop litigation strategies. We advise our clients candidly on the risks and potential rewards of litigation. From the outset of each matter, our litigators advise clients on the best course of action using early case assessment methods and then set a strategy and implement the plan with efficiency to achieve their business goals and desired results.

We represent our clients in international litigation disputes. Our litigators have the confidence, the experience and the skills to advocate for clients successfully in the courtroom around the world.

Our goal is to produce not only favourable results for our clients at trial, but also advantageous settlements when their interests are best served by resolution out of the courthouse. Our trial lawyers have the experience and resources needed to succeed, in and out of the courtroom.

Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring

Our company offers full-service bankruptcy and financial restructuring capabilities that clients call upon to resolve their most complex restructuring and insolvency situations.

These matters often require the development of novel solutions by our team. We believe that a diverse bankruptcy practice enhances our ability to represent clients effectively and creatively.

Our range of services spans all areas of bankruptcy law, and includes asset protection, reorganization planning, debt restructuring, asset acquisitions and sales, out-of-court restructurings and non-bankruptcy insolvency. We have extensive experience representing purchasers of the assets, debt and securities of financially distressed companies.

We have represented companies in sanation, reorganization and liquidation proceedings. We provide representation to debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, committees of creditors and shareholders, company management.

Intellectual Property, Copyright

In the current era of technology, today's businesses know that their ideas, processes and information are one of their most valuable assets.

Taking that we focus on providing comprehensive, multi-disciplinary intellectual property services designed to help clients obtain the greatest business advantage.

Our attorneys handle the intellectual property aspects of transactions.

We maintain intellectual property practices providing a full range of services, including counselling, litigation, dispute resolution and licensing transactions in the area.

We offer thorough advice and guidance based upon extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property including its acquisition, enforcement, management and commercial exploitation.

Our attorneys provide guidance on optimal structures for IP transactions, negotiate and draft intellectual property licenses; evaluate trademark and patent rights in connection with mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and other corporate transactions.

We have handled cases involving copyright, trademark, invention, trade secrets, infringement of intellectual property rights, unfair competition, false advertising, consumers protection.

We understand that intellectual property litigation is increasingly becoming a means of establishing a client’s future competitive position.

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