Our professionals have developed a number of innovative structures in trade and project financing, tax planning, structuring and workouts. The quality and complexity of these innovations singled out us from the rest of the market.
Our firm is constantly recognized as a leader in trade and export financing on the soft commodity markets. We work with all the leading grain and vegetable oil exporters from Ukraine and know all the niceties of this trade.
We routinely represent western banks in asset-backed financing schemes using pledges over commodity being exported. We are perfectly comfortable using all security schemes over the goods as provided by Ukrainian and Russian legislation.
Our services include:
Advising on trade/project finance and loan transactions;
Legal due diligence;
Consulting on the issues of default situations, providing legal assistance on debt restructuring transactions, assignment of receivables and payables;
Drafting syndicated loan agreements, structuring financial transactions;
Advising on international bond issues, including secured bonds, bank guarantees, issue of standby letters of credit and obtaining comfort letters;
Providing advice on regulatory matters of banking and financial operations;
Asset, debt and loan obligations restructuring;
Improvement of financial performance and indexes;
Advising on debt refinancing;
Consulting on the issues of distressed loans conversion in leasing products;
Creation of reverse mortgage structures;
Providing legal advice on the issues of trade finance, generating collateral-backed structures;
Advising on project finance transactions;
Advising on corporate transformations: increase in charter capital, formation of holding companies, association structuring;
Getting permits, licenses and other clearances from the National Bank of Ukraine, Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, Securities and Stock Market State Commission, State Commission for Regulation of Financial Services Markets of Ukraine;
Structuring and providing legal support in the course of trade and project finance transactions;
Providing legal advice on the issues of securing loan facilities: pledges, suretyships, guarantees, assignment of claims; pledge registration;
Advising on the procedures of applying to international financial institutions and raising loan resources; registration of loan agreements with the National Bank of Ukraine;
Legal support in negotiations involving overdue indebtedness, debt restructurings, substitution of security and pledge release.
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