Investment Projects

Legal support of investment projects is one of the main areas of practice in SDM Partners Law Firm, which has been regularly advising clients on a variety of investment projects for the last years. We provide comprehensive legal support to private equity and venture capital investors, as well as portfolio companies, across a variety of industries – Telecom, Finance, Aviation, Healthcare, Real Estate, FMCG, both in Ukraine and abroad. Our team provides comprehensive support, combining highly specialized industry knowledge and professional expertise of leading Tax, Finance and Competition law experts.
Services
- Analysis of different tax issues, currency control and competition regulation
- Assistance in incorporation of holding, trading, financial and IP companies as well as developing effective internal control and management structure to protect the owners’ interests
- Developing corporate structure for operating clients’ business
- Drafting supporting documentation (sale-purchase agreements
- Full scope support of mergers & acquisitions transactions
- Legal due diligence of legal entities and assets to be acquired
- Management and leveraged buy-outs
- Obtaining licenses and permits, registration with state authorities and fulfillment of other regulatory requirements arising both in the process of establishment and activity of a business
- Opening / closing of investment accounts, support of the investment / divestment
Projects
- Due Diligence of five cable TV operators
- Ongoing representation of the interests of certain private Ukrainian investors (individuals) concerning various investments and joint venture projects in Ukraine (entertainment, retail shops, real estate, food industry).
- Increase of the charter capital of a leading Ukrainian life insurance company
- Represent a foreign clay and tile producer regarding sale of the companies engaged in extraction and sale of the clay
- Representation of a foreign finance company in the transactions for financing a major Ukrainian retailer and Ukrainian bank to the amount of 20 million US Dollars.
- Loan from a foreign financial institution by an agribusiness holding to the amount of 40 million Euro.
- Purchase of a group of developing companies in Kyiv holding real estate objects by one of the European real estate investment companies.
- Maintenance of an agreement on acquisition of debt collection company by the leading Ukrainian investment and industrial group
- Advice and service the client on its participation and financing of the project for construction in Kyiv (Ukraine) the condominium in the amount of 17 million Euro.
- Acquisition of a group of real estate owners in Kiev, one of the European real estate investment companies