AstapovLawyers acts for leading manufacturing and industrial companies and conglomerates whose activities range across the broad terrain of this sector. Our practice comprises a core of lawyers with a particular focus on the sector.

The manufacturing and industrial steel sector is by its nature highly disparate. However, there are common challenges in managing, structuring and developing businesses internationally.

AstapovLawyers are able to call upon some of the leading lawyers in their fields to provide a full service to our clients, not only in corporate and M&A but in the key practice areas which are most often relevant to steel manufacturing and industrial businesses, real estate, IP, TMT, competition and regulation, and environment.

The team understands the issues with which clients in these sectors have to contend and we provide value-added legal advice designed to ensure that clients can meet their strategic and operational business needs.

Our experience includes advising on:

• restructuring and corporate matters;
• plant construction and regulatory matters in Ukraine;
• trade remedies (antidumping, safeguards, countervailing duties);
• modernization projects of steel mining mills;
• corporate and M&A issues;
• REACH related matters;
• dispute resolution and litigation matters, etc.

Among our recent clients in the Steel industry are - THYSSEN KRUPP SA, FERREXPO / VORSKLA STEEL, ENERGOMASHSPETSSTAL (EMSS), LM - LIEPAJAS METALURGS, SIEMENS, DONETSK ELECTROMETALLURGICAL PLANT, and DNIEPROPETROVSK TUBE WORKS (DTW).