Legal Services

Our worlds are changing every day. Whether driven by external forces or by our own aspirations, the ability to change is the basic condition required to overcome today’s challenges. The law is a core tool to understanding and implementing change. You need legal advisors that are able to comprehend, master, and even predict the changes in your industry.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal represents a new model for the delivery of legal advice to businesses in this ever-changing environment. We work as integrated professional consulting teams to address clients' business issues in today’s world. Our lawyers are not just legal specialists, but business consultants working alongside professionals in corporate finance, management consultancy and tax. Together, we provide clients with comprehensive solutions by applying practical skills and a complex approach—offering precise answers to your increasingly complex questions and needs.

As deal architects, we can help you transform your business and increase its value—structuring and managing your projects to their completion, anticipating contingencies, considering your counterpart, and constantly adapting to your needs. Knowing that your issues are international and require top-quality legal solutions, our international network of established local law offices and vast expertise will deliver creative and cost-effective solutions…even though the target is always moving.

Our services

Corporate

Incorporation, structuring investments, corporate changes: transformations and restructuring, corporate reorganizations, liquidation, corporate governance, compliance.

Commercial

Contractual structuring and trade schemes, counselling on trade related legal issues (together with customs and tax teams) such as licensing, customs, foreign currency restrictions, intellectual property protection, countertrade, transfers of technology, joint ventures, toll manufacturing, restrictions on international investment, import and export restrictions, WTO related issues.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Full-scope legal due diligence, complex legal and tax structuring of mergers, de-mergers and spin-offs, drafting transaction documents, asset/share purchase transactions, obtaining transaction permits, assistance in the course of negotiations, implementation of the deal and post-closing support.

Real Estate

Legal assistance during due diligence, transaction, project financing, development, construction, leasing and disposition of real estate projects.

Banking and Financial

Banking and financial regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector, project finance, trade finance, debt restructuring (including non-performing loans).

Competition

Acquisition/merger control, assessment of the risk of dominance abuse, obtaining approvals of the Antimonopoly Committee of

Ukraine, assistance during investigations and representing clients in proceedings before the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.

Labour

Review of labour policies, drafting and negotiating agreements (contracts), labour disputes, collective agreements, cross-border employment matters, staff optimization.

Litigation

Tax litigation: support during state audits (customs and tax), mediation, pre-trial settlements of the disputes, litigation, commercial litigation: analysis of the contractual and extra-contractual obligations, developing legal strategy, support in negotiations, advice on legal proceedings, representation in courts.