Vasil Kisil & Partners

Opening doors to business
Helping foreign businesses start operations in Ukraine. We give advice from optimal company type choice to execution of a corporate agreement between partners. We create solid corporate structures.

Supporting transactions
This is our strength. We like to bring transactions to a successful conclusion. Focusing on conditions that are really important for clients and do not waste time on secondary things.

Making corporate restructurings
Helping clients build a lean corporate structure. Such structure is easier to manage, requires fewer maintenance costs, and makes it easier to raise finance. We put things in order in structures with over 70 companies.

Advising on corporate governance
We understand that effective corporate governance is the future of Ukrainian businesses. This is supported by our research [link].
We closely cooperate with the Corporate Governance Professional Association and participate in the development of corporate governance laws and regulations.
Advising banks, industrial companies, agricultural holdings, and food producers. From international groups to family companies.

Acting in accordance with international practices
On Zero corruption tolerance policy, acting locally in accordance with international standards, available whenever and wherever needed.
 

Acting effectively across borders and barriers
On being oldest and most stable local law firm acting internationally, being part of TerraLex, working with foreign lawyers and in foreign jurisdictions disregarding language, culture and legal system differences.
 

Helping to do business, not make disputes
Consulting at a contract negotiation stage, drafting arbitration agreements, advising at a pre-arbitration stage to find an amicable solution in order for the dispute to be put behind and the beneficial commercial cooperation to continue.
 

Taking care of your disputes for you to take care of your business
Advising on all stages of the dispute resolution process, developing a comprehensive case strategy, navigating and accounting for the particularities of the specific case, and assisting the client at all times from the start of the dispute until the enforcement of the final award.

Changing the standards of intellectual property protection
Using the most up-to-date instruments to protect IP rights enforcement. Finding a solution even if traditional remedies to counteract the violation do not work.

Concentrating on damages recovery
Discovering new remedies, identifying the infringer, proving the damages and discontinuing unlawful activities.

Predicting the scenarios of how the dispute will develop
Securing claim and evidence timely. The best conflict is the one that has been avoided, so we seek opportunities for amicable resolution at any stage.

Specializing in complicated transactions involving several jurisdictions
Helping our clients to enter into agreements concerning intellectual property and in the context of M&A transactions. Our complicated projects include international licensing of trademark and patents.

Extensive expertise in various areas
Household electrical appliances, ІТ and media, pharmacy and agricultural chemistry, food and retail, luxury goods. The brand celebrity partnership and event sponsorship are yet another part of our practice.

Aligning corporate HR standards with Ukrainian labour laws
Providing effective solutions to complex matters of restructuring, execution, and termination of employment agreements, cooperation with trade unions, and resolution of labour disputes.

Team of recognised professionals
We were the first in the domestic market to establish a dedicated labor and employment practice and since then have developed the biggest employment team in Ukraine, which has been recognised by international legal directories for over 10 years.

Implementing the best global practices
We exclusively represent Ius Laboris, the largest global alliance of leading labour law firms, in Ukraine.

Improving labour laws
We are involved in drafting the Labour Code as members of the specialised Working Group at the Social Policy, Employment and Pension Provision Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament.

The longest-established RE advisory team in Ukraine
We differentiate ourselves as one of the most long-established among widely recognised real estate legal advisory teams in the Ukrainian legal market.

A to Z transactional advice
Our clients trust us in A to Z transaction matters. In close collaboration with our corporate, tax, finance and other experts, we provide our clients with one-stop-shop legal services experience.

Sector tailored approach
Relying on our vast expertise we offer sector tailored approach, including for agriculture, construction, development, infrastructure, retail, and our other core industries.

Niche services
Our expertise also spreads to such niche services as adaptation of FIDIC contracts, haute couture boutique leases, RE specific investment fund, and securities operations, dealing with non-conventional titles and structures, like collective ownership, cooperatives, leasing enterprises, assets with dual or specific status and many others.

Repayment of bad debts
By using various mechanisms, such as withdrawal of the claim, transfer of debt, counterclaim, etc. we offer well-tried algorithms to repay bad debts with minimum risks posed to clients.

Counteracting debtors acting in bad faith
Using efficient instruments for legal protection of good faith creditors against debtors acting in bad faith and their related persons who aim at diluting creditors' claims, gaining control in a bankruptcy case, impeding the procedure, etc.

Searching assets and enforcing judgments
Helping to search debtors' assets in Ukraine and abroad at which expense the existing debt will be repaid and the court decision for debt recovery will be enforced.

Shutting down business in Ukraine
Applying a procedure for voluntary liquidation by turning into a bankruptcy proceeding as one of the efficient ways to shut down business in Ukraine. By this, a good faith debtor would be able to avoid delays due to inspections by controlling authorities and liquidate in business within a reasonable period.

Raising the bar of protection in criminal proceedings
Carrying out quality analysis of risks. Preparing professionally for protection. Protecting from the essence of a claim by ensuring that the client's rights are honored by applications of the best international practices and the case laws of the European Court of Human Rights.

Recovering damages
Focusing on financial investigations, indemnification of inflicted damage, search and recovery of client's assets.

Specializing in complicated proceedings involving an international element
Assist with extradition proceedings and proceedings aimed at searching, attaching and confiscating assets abroad.

Using our own attorneys at law only and synergy of practices
Ensuring full confidentiality and comprehensive protection by engaging our own specialist from adjacent practices for the most efficient protection in complicated financial investigations.