Industry-specific solutions

agribusiness

key products

  • Dealing with all sub-sectors of the agribusiness: food production, dairy, grains, sugar and oilseeds, processing and supply
  • Advising on starting agricultural businesses
  • Advising on complex investment projects
  • Providing support in professional arrangement of contractual relations with all types of business partners or vendors
  • Liaising with corporate reorganisation and restructuring projects
  • Supporting in transactions on acquisition or alienation of land plots
  • Handling debt and equity financing
  • Representing in complex debt recovery and debt restricting disputes
  • Representing business owners in complex bankruptcy procedures
  • Advising on commodities trading, tax, customs regulatory and compliance matters
  • Advising on agriculture legislation development
  • Guiding on collaboration with governmental agencies

Representative Cases

Protecting interests of the owners of a large national agribusiness, a farm operator with a land bank of more than 150K hectares, in a number of corporate and commercial disputes as result of a corporate raider attempt to take control of the business, including a set of measures for criminal protection of owners and top managers of the holding company.

 


 

Representing the owners and top managers of a large Ukrainian agricultural trader and processor of agricultural crops in a number of proceedings and court disputes with the tax and customs authorities; advising on various issues of tax, customs and export regulation, currency control.

 


 

Providing a comprehensive legal advisory support to a number of agricultural holding companies on the issues of land and agrarian law (unbundling, rent, creation and registration of a land bank, etc.), as well as on the matters of agricultural equipment leasing, banking loans, insurance, working on the interbank currency exchange, IPO listing.

 


 

Providing a comprehensive legal support to potential investors and handling a pre-acquisition due diligence in relation to the acquisition of a large Ukrainian flour and bakery holding company.

 


 

Providing a legal advisory support to a large fishing company on the matters of international commercial arbitration, tax, custom and currency regulation, loan and investment activities.

 


 

Providing a comprehensive legal support to the largest national manufacturer and exporter of agricultural products on the issues of foreign commercial activity, customs and tax legislation, international commercial arbitration, currency regulation, legal aspects of transport and logistics activities.

 


 

Providing a comprehensive legal advisory support to a number of agricultural holding companies on the issues of land and agrarian law (unbundling, rent, creation and registration of a land bank, etc.), as well as on the matters of agricultural equipment leasing, banking loans, insurance, working on the interbank currency exchange, IPO listing.

 


 

Providing a legal advisory support to a number of Ukrainian agricultural businesses in the application and protection of property rights (emphyteusis, easement, etc.).