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KEY FACTS
Integrites is a team of professionals, who are always focused on clients’ needs and problems
We have offices in London, Moscow, Kyiv, Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and in Amsterdam, Munich, Guangzhou, Aktau and Atyrau, opened in 2015
Integrites registered in The Law Society of England and Wales since 2010
We are experts in Commercial litigation and International arbitration, Banking & Finance, Corporate law, Tax, Real Estate & Construction, M&A, Antitrust, IP, Corporate finance
More than 750 corporate clients Worldwide.
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RECENT RECOGNITIONS
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INTERNATIONAL GUIDE CHAMBERS GLOBAL 2014 ACKNOWLEDGED EXPERTISE OF INTEGRITES IN BANKING AND FINANCE PRACTICE
INTEGRITES IS RANKED BY IFLR 1000 (2016, 2015) IN BANKING & FINANCE, AS WELL AS CORPORATE LAW AND M&A
INTEGRITES IS RECOMMENDED BY THE WORLD TAX 2015, INTERNATIONAL TAX REVIEW'S DIRECTORY TO THE LEADING TAX ADVISORY FIRMS AROUND THE WORLD
INTEGRITES WAS RECOMMENDED IN ALL KEY PRACTICES (B&F, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, TAX, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, M&A, REAL ESTATE; ENERGY) BY THE LEADING INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DIRECTORY THE LEGAL 500 (2016)
INTEGRITES IS NOMINATED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS LEGAL AWARD CHAMBERS EUROPE AWARDS 2016 IN THE CATEGORY UKRAINE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
SENIOR PARTNER OF INTEGRITES VYACHESLAV KORCHEV NAMED ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING COMMERCIAL LITIGATORS BY WHO’S WHO LEGAL: LITIGATION (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)
INTEGRITES ACKNOWLEDGED BY DEALMAKERS GLOBAL AWARDS 2014 AND NAMED LAW FIRM OF YHE YEAR IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION PRACTICE, TRADE & PROJECT FINANCE AND ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES
INTEGRITES IS THE BRITISH LEGAL AWARDS 2015 FINALIST. INTEGRITES IS RECOGNIZED BY ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS RANKINGS OF EUROPE IN TWO CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR AND EUROPEAN LEGAL TEAM OF THE YEAR
INTEGRITES IS RECOMMENDED BY THE COMPETENT INTERNATIONAL RATING WTR 1000 (2015, 2016)
INTEGRITES IS THE WINNER OF THE LAWYER EUROPEAN AWARDS 2016: LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR FOR RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND THE CIS
OLENA PEREPELYNSKA, PARTNER OF INTEGRITES, NAMED ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING PRACTITIONERS IN ARBITRATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE & CUSTOMS BY WHO’S WHO LEGAL
INTEGRITES IS RECOGNISED BY ONE OF THE LEADING LEGAL RANKINGS CHAMBERS EUROPE 2015 IN BANKING & FINANCE AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICES
INTEGRITES IS THE WINNER OF THE UKRAINE'S LEGAL AWARDS 2016 IN CATEGORIES LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR AND ARBITRATION LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
OUR TEAM. PARTNERS
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Ruslan Bernatsky Senior Partner
Vyacheslav Korchev Senior Partner
Oleksiy Feliv Managing Partner, Head of EU Desk
Julian Ries Partner, Head of the office in Munich
DirkSijbersma Head of the office in the Netherlands
Mikhail Marinin Managing Partner, Russia
Andrey Ryabinin Partner, Russia
Ivanna Dorichenko Partner, Head of the office in London
David Williams Solicitor, UK Officе
Roman Kryvosheyev Managing Partner, China
Olena Perepelynska Partner
Vsevolod Volkov Partner
Denys Kytsenko Partner
Denys Statnikov Partner
Oleh Zahnitko Partner
Kurmangazy Talzhanov Managing Partner, Kazakhstan
Duman Akhmetov Partner, Kazakhstan
Svetlana Shtopol Partner, Kazakhstan
Aiman Zhekeyeva Head of Astana branch, Kazakhstan
Dmitriy Nyshpal Head of Foreign Desk
Svyatoslav Sheremeta Partner
Nataliya Tomashevskaya Partner
Aliona Siverskaya Partner
Danyil Fedorchuk Counsel
Serhiy Shershun Counsel
Banking and Finance
Capital Markets
Trade Finance
Corporate and M&A Antitrust and Competition
Commercial / Contracts
Tax
PRACTICES
INDUSTRIES
Litigation
International Arbitration
Compliance / White Collar Crime
Real Estate and Construction
Public Procurement
Labour and Employment
Intellectual Property
Agriculture Chemicals Health Care and Pharmaceutics Fuel and Energy Financing and Investments
Machinery Construction
Retail and Distribution Mining and Smelting Real Estate and Construction Transportation and Logistics
Informational Technology and Telecommunication
Ecology and Biotechnology
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OUR PRACTICES
BANKING AND FINANCE Successful experience of supporting complex
financial transactions, along with the knowledge of industry specifics, and profound experience of application of banking and finance products enables us to achieve the best expected results for our clients simultaneously creating conditions when respect for the interests of each of the parties and the state of internal confidence is an indispensable part at each stage of the transaction.
The largest investment organizations and commercial banks as well as large foreign and national companies come to us for assistance on the issues related to their financial agreements and deals. Our clients are representatives of such industries as agriculture, metallurgy, coal and mining, energy and electricity production, chemical industry, processing industry, engineering, transport and infrastructure, telecommunications, construction, and real estate.
TRADE FINANCE Vast experience of cooperation with
contractors all over the world and local expertise in the CIS states, coordinated work of our lawyers with Integrites specialist teams offering a full range of financial and analytical support as well as understanding of the principles and approaches to the use of international finance schemes and instruments enable us to find the optimal solutions and take into consideration the interests of each of the parties to international business deals of any degree of complexity.
We provide support to international and national loan and finance institutions, export-credit agencies (ECAs), investment funds as well as large foreign and domestic producers and distributors (importers) of equipment, component parts, semi-finished products, feedstock or finished products in large and innovative trade transactions at international level. In our work, we are often involved in our clients’ projects in different industries, such as mining, fuel and energy, engineering, agriculture, food industry, and retail.
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CORPORATE AND M&A International presence, in-depth and universal
experience, knowledge and resources as well as the corporate practice work in close cooperation with Integrites professional tax & financial teams enable us to assist our clients with the strategically important and complex transactions in the CIS, in the markets of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South Americas, and often in several jurisdictions at the same time.
We support leading national and international companies in different spheres, such as car industry, metallurgy, mining industry, fuel and energy, agriculture, construction, retail as well as in the sphere of financial services in the largest and innovative transactions. Clients come to us for assistance in order to get comprehensive support in both current business activities and large-scale corporate transactions as well as find solutions aimed at optimization or creating of business structure and internal corporate management.
LITIGATION AND INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION A strong team of professionals who have many
years of litigation experience in a wide range of proceedings and innovative approaches to protecting our clients’ business coupled with a sound system of quality and project management as well as concerted efforts of lawyers and analytical team allow us to come up with solutions which protect our clients from negative consequences of litigation process, in particular damaged reputation, business efficiency decline or even complete destabilization of business.
International arbitration is one of the major instruments for building business protection strategy. Tackled by our lawyers, top-ranked specialists with many years of experience in international arbitration and cross-jurisdictional litigation and multiple litigation victories, the mechanisms of international arbitration allow to ensure the necessary level of protection of our clients’ assets regardless of the complexity and value of the dispute.
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TAXATION Specialized knowledge and experience as well
as the possibility to provide consultations and support in cross-border transactions structured under English law, the presence of a wide network of partners in all key jurisdictions that can be involved in tax planning, as well as high principles, standards and quality that we use in our approach to work enable us to meet the clients’ requirements regarding tax structuring projects of any degree of complexity.
Clients often come to our Tax practice with instruction related to tax optimization, risk evaluation and development of mechanisms of taxation minimization, development and/or official reconciliation of positions regarding taxation. This can often be explained by the clients’ concerns about financial losses or application of penal sanctions resulting from ambiguous wording of legal norms or a lack of knowledge about the practice of their application, including a lack of knowledge about the norms and the practice of application of foreign laws.
NATURAL RECOURCES & ENERGY The basis of the industrial potential of Russia,
Ukraine and Kazakhstan is power industry, oil and gas industry and processing industry that are strategic areas for the priority investment projects. We focus our attention on finding a comprehensive solution to the problems encountered by the companies that operate in these sectors, and strive for creating additional opportunities that facilitate their development.
Relying on our vast industry-specific expertise and understanding of the specific features of business running and legal regulation in the spheres of natural resources, land and water use and environmental protection, national and international companies most often ask us for assistance with the issues related to support of investment projects as well as transactions related to purchase and disposal of assets in the energy, and oil and gas industries.
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ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION Robust competition is an indispensable part of
market relations and an important component of a successful business strategy of virtually any business. We are aware of this and constantly invest in development of antitrust and competition practice. That is why companies operating in different sectors of economy choose us as a reliable advisor for finding efficient solutions to antitrust issues emerging at all stages of the company development.
Specifically, our clients rely on us in complicated issues related to securing merger clearances from the antimonopoly authorities, comprehensive support in the issues related to protection from unfair competition, anti-competitive coordinated actions and/or abuse of the monopoly position, representing our clients’ interests in the antitrust authorities during antitrust investigations and appealing against the antitrust authorities decisions pursuant to both administrative and judicial procedure.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY We aspire to manage the risks related to
infringement of the rights to intellectual property objects of our clients and minimize such risks in order to increase the value and attractiveness of client’s business. Transnational corporations turn to us for legal assistance in such spheres as medicine and pharmaceuticals, finance and investments, retail and FMCG, information technologies and telecommunications.
Our team of intellectual property practice participated as a legal adviser in a number of complex cases related to the transfer of ownership and the right to use IPRs, conducting of the IPR due diligence, providing legal support concerning access of foreign companies to genetic resources of plants in the CIS, opportunities for genetic material exports, as well as protection of intellectual property rights to plant species, protection of copyright, including in the Internet, termination of the copyright violations by the third parties, and the fight against counterfeits in the CIS markets.
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REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION
Our team provides high standard legal services in connection with all types of transactions concerning land title and land planning. We provide full support to real estate projects from transaction structuring to due diligence of immovable property and the final title registration. We will help to safely acquire any real estate needed for business or to efficiently sell it on a later stage. The transaction documentation is elaborated by our devoted and highly diligent legal experts.
We also provide clients with assets structuring services regarding immovable property in relation to family wealth and respective tax planning. Our experts advise developers on a whole range of transactions including preparation of permissive documentation, licensing and project planning. We have successfully advised our clients in various kinds of real estate transactions including construction, reconstruction, demolition and re-planning.
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
We provide advice to our clients on a wide range of issues in the sphere of the labour law, including such issues as registration of labour relations and obtainment of permits for employment of foreigners, adaptation of foreign corporate rules and policies to the norms of the labour legislation, termination of labour relations. Our clients also come to us with questions concerning interaction with regulatory state authorities, etc.
Our clients’ questions are most often related to the need to solve problems concerning avoidance of legislative violations, protection of the rights and interests of employers as well as minimization of the risks of possible lawsuits from the former employees. Resolution of such problems helps our clients to minimize the risks of application of sanctions by the regulatory authorities, disclosure of confidential information by employees, “misappropriation” of the title to intellectual property item belonging to the employing company.
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The EU Desk team is led by Dr. Oleksiy Feliv and focuses on supporting clients from UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy with a strong expertize in diverse range of industries. Among the focus industries are agriculture, automotive, energy, including renewable energy business, industrial manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, real estate and construction.
International development organisations, foreign banks, export credit agencies, multinational corporations benefit from broad expertise in the cross-border financing. The team focuses on trade finance issues, corporate finance (including organised capital markets), financial institutions compliance and exchange control regulations in domestic and international finance.
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Ukrainian business going to the EU can create a road map or support in its implementation with our offices located in Amsterdam, London and Munich. The team, with the help of the correspondent firm network, will lead them through bars of the export of capital in the CIS to new markets, helping in the local presence establishment, structuring business in order to attract investment or funding. Finally, the EU desk offers wealth management solutions.
Foreign businesses looking to domesticate their operations or find the clients can rely on our team for comprehensive coverage of their market-entry need, mature functioning and exist. Many of the exporters (particularly from the EU and North America) can partner with our firm to develop credit profile of their Ukrainian customers for pre-export and project finance transactions.
EU DESK
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