JVS Law

JVS Law's corporate and commercial practice serves clients whose business crosses borders — and whose contracts, regulatory obligations and industry-specific risks must work under Ukrainian law as well as internationally.

Aviation is the historical core of the practice. The firm advises airlines, lessors, airports and investors on regulatory matters, aircraft leasing and registration, the operation of the Cape Town Convention in Ukraine, and the legal framework governing airport operations and airline-airport relations, including the competition law constraints on airport incentive schemes.

The contracts practice extends beyond aviation: the firm drafts and negotiates international sale, service and agency agreements, advises on choice of law and dispute resolution mechanisms, and helps clients allocate performance and payment risks realistically, including in wartime conditions. Where disputes arise, the practice works hand in hand with the firm's arbitration and enforcement capability.

In franchising, the firm combines transactional advice with active participation in the modernization of Ukrainian franchising law, giving clients insight into both the current rules and the direction of reform.

The practice also covers Ukrainian export control and dual-use goods regulation — licensing procedures, classification issues and compliance planning — together with the sanctions-related questions that increasingly shape cross-border contracting: counterparty screening, sanctions clauses and the effect of restrictive measures on contractual performance.

JVS Law's dispute resolution practice covers the full path of a commercial dispute — from arbitration and litigation through appeal to enforcement and, where necessary, insolvency proceedings.

The firm represents Ukrainian and foreign clients in international commercial arbitration and advises on arbitration clauses, choice of forum and applicable law at the contracting stage. Its distinctive strength lies in post-award work: the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards across jurisdictions, including proceedings before Ukrainian courts and the coordination of local counsel in the debtor's home jurisdiction. This work regularly involves contested enforcement defences, such as set-off declarations raised by debtors, and requires strategy that spans several legal systems at once.

Before the Ukrainian commercial courts, the firm conducts litigation through all instances, from first-instance proceedings to appeal and cassation. The litigation practice is led by a partner with decades of courtroom experience, and appellate work is treated not as a formality but as a distinct discipline: reassessing the record, identifying reversible error and adjusting strategy for a different standard of review.

The firm's insolvency capability rests on rare first-hand experience: its litigation partner practised for many years as a licensed insolvency officer (arbitration manager), administering bankruptcy proceedings from the inside. This allows the firm to advise creditors and counterparties on insolvency-related risks with a practitioner's understanding of how proceedings actually unfold — including where enforcement of judgments and awards intersects with a debtor's insolvency.

The practice places deliberate emphasis on dispute prevention and pre-litigation analysis. Before proceedings begin, the firm assesses the enforceability of claims, the debtor's asset position and the realistic cost and duration of recovery — so that clients decide whether and where to fight on the basis of evidence rather than optimism. The same thinking informs the firm's transactional work: dispute resolution clauses are drafted by lawyers who enforce them.