Industries
Oil and Gas
We have specialized expertise in the field of oil and gas focusing on our core practice areas (M&A, capital markets, and restructurings) and developing new legal instruments to enable our clients to work in Ukraine for extracting and distributing natural resources in a regulated environment.
Our attorneys have handled a number of M&A transactions in the oil and gas sector both in Ukraine and other CIS countries, namely, in Russia and Kazakhstan, providing the following services to clients:
participation in the due diligence procedures in the course of M&A and capital markets transactions, including conducting full legal due diligence investigation of the target company and preparation of due diligence reports
verification of the legal rights of the target to extract the natural resources and legal framework for their distribution (access to the pipelines, logistics, etc)
taxation in the oil and gas sector (including “super-profit” taxes, other peculiarities of tax treatment in the field)
drafting of transaction documents
developing new legal instruments, which enable clients to protect their interests in the relations with state-owned monopolies
Our experience and expertise are the key factors to finding effective and enforceable solutions to satisfy our clients` needs in oil and gas sector and we use all instruments available not only under Ukrainian, but also under foreign law to deal with state-monopolies and other players.