Corporate & M&A, Disputes Resolution, Real Estate, Tax Law

Ulysses

4-B, Ivana Franko Street
1-st Floor, Office 49
Kiev 01034
Ukraine

 +380 44 2200711
 +380 44 2200711

www.ulyssesco.com
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Law Firm Overview

Ulysses is a top notch transactional and disputes resolution law firm in Ukraine.

The firm has been established by managing partner Oleh Marchenko, a former partner and ex-head of corporate and M&A and later ex-head of CIS-wide tax practice of Magisters.

Drawing on senior ex-Magisters people and their experience gained over the years, Ulysses is a dynamically growing law firm in Ukraine. The firm operates as a traditional partnership, but has its own distinctive philosophy, values and corporate culture.

Ulysses’ lawyers regularly handle transactions and disputes in Ukraine in recent years exceeding USD 25 billion in value representing global clients, including over 30 Fortune Global 500 corporations, in Competition, Corporate and M&A, Disputes Resolution, Real Estate and Tax law across the following industries: Agriculture, Financial Institutions, Consumer Goods, Industry, Pharma, Real Estate, and TMT.

Ulysses brought together the best lawyers and is committed to the highest-level services in all practice areas, dealing with legal issues from a multidisciplinary perspective within the general framework of business and strategic goals of our clients who entrust their most challenging transactions, legal matters and disputes to our lawyers.

Year this Office was Established: 2010

Languages: English, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

Practice Areas

Practice Areas Description

Our practice areas include:

- Competition Law

Ulysses lawyers acted for ACTI, Bunge, Danone, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Pernod Ricard, RUSAL and many other global players in sensitive competition law matters in Ukraine. We represent clients on a wide range of competition law matter, including: merger filings; joint ventures and other business combinations; and, concerted actions, unfair competition, and abuse of dominant position investigations.

- Corporate and M&A

From acquisitions of large industrial and infrastructure assets, construction of luxury hotels, construction of seaport terminals, sale of TV channels, competition law investigations, to complex corporate disputes, Ulysses’ lawyers handled some of the most complex and largest transactions in Ukraine in recent years exceeding USD 25 billion in value. Our lawyers are dealing with corporate and M&A matters from a multidisciplinary approach. Our top notch transactional tax expertise enables Ulysses to handle the most challenging tax and financial law aspects of cross-border and domestic M&A transactions and corporate reorganizations, setting us apart from other transactional law firms. Service Lines: Competition Law, Corporate Finance, Reorganizations and Restructuring, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, M&A, and, Securities Law.

- Disputes Resolution

Litigation and more broadly disputes resolution is a core area or our expertise. Our disputes resolution practice covers domestic litigation, international arbitration, and mediation. Ulysses lawyers represent clients in high profile cases ranging from corporate conflicts, cross-border commercial disputes, international construction disputes, tax and customs litigations, to antitrust and regulatory disputes and investigations.

- Real Estate

Ulysses’ lawyers participated in real estate transactions ranging from acquisition and construction of seaport terminal facilities for worlds’ largest agricultural businesses, construction of luxury hotels (Radisson SAS, Hilton), cross-border real estate joint ventures, complex residential and commercial real estate projects, real estate financing transactions, real estate restructuring transactions, including bankruptcy and pre-bankruptcy restructurings. In real estate projects our lawyers served Gooioord, Goldman Sachs, Bunge, Alfred C. Toepfer International, and Rizzani de Eccher.

- Tax, Tax Litigation

Ulysses tax team provides value-based, practical, and actionable tax advice, of the top notch quality, to corporate clients of the firm in respect of their most significant transactions, most important business matters, and most critical tax and customs disputes.

Legal 500, EMEA 2010 praises our tax team for being “responsive, commercial and practical”, “providing the full range of regulatory, transactional and litigation [tax] advice” and names Oleh Marchenko “first-class” tax professional, who has “superb reputation”.

Who’s Who Legal CIS 2011 names Oleh as one of the leaders in corporate tax law in the CIS region, being “top notch” for his “regulation, disputes and transactional advice”.

International Tax Review names our tax team as Ukraine Tax Firm of the Year and Ukraine Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year at the European Tax Awards 2009 and repeatedly names our tax team as Ukraine Tax Firm of the Year at the European Tax Awards 2010.

Legal 500, EMEA 2010 names our tax team as the first tier tax firm in Ukraine. International Tax Review’s World Tax 2011, a highly authoritative guide to the world’s leading tax firms, recognizes Ulysses among top tax firms in Ukraine.

Lawyers

	Mr. Vladyslav Chervinsky Lawyer Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business and Industry		Mr. Oleh Marchenko Managing Lawyer Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Business Law, Commercial Law
	Ms. Anna Zorya Lawyer Agency and Distributorship, Banking Law, Business and Industry, Business Formation, Business Law

Representative Clients

• Agriculture: Alfred C. Toepfer International, ADM, Bunge, Cargill • Consumer Goods: Danone, Eurofoods, Pernod Ricard, Unimilk • Financial Institutions: Advent International, Alfa-Bank, Erste Bank, Goldman Sachs, ING Bank, Morgan Stanley

• Industry: General Electric, JTI, Lafarge, SUAL (RUSAL), Saint-Gobain, Severstal • Pharma: Alcala Farma, Teva • Real Estate: Gooioord, Hilton Project, Radisson SAS Project, Rizzani de Eccher • TMT: Altimo, Astelit, Microsoft

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