Practice
Finance
Our lawyers acted for and supported many leading Ukrainian corporate borrowers and issuers in their financing transactions, making us a pre-eminent adviser to them. In addition, our lawyers worked for major financial institutions (international and domestic investment and commercial banks) on some of their most challenging transactions out of Ukraine often involving novel instruments or structures.
Our finance expertise includes:
loan finance of all kinds from “plain vanilla” credit agreements to highly structured cross-border financings, including:
— secured and unsecured financing
— bilateral and syndicated/term and revolving credit and loan facilities
public and private debt offerings, including:
— high-yield bonds
— Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings
— debt programmes (MTNs)
— private placements of debt securities
— equity-linked and credit-linked issues
securitisation and structured finance transactions, including:
— securitisation of auto-loan portfolio
— securitization of residential mortgage loan portfolio
aircraft and ship financings
Our strong relationship with premier US, UK and European law firms, with which we work in seamless integrated teams, allows us to cooperate in multi-specialist teams with lawyers chosen from the world’s leading international and independent law firms, to provide a unique and high class professional services which are totally in tune with the international best practices and standards, while being equally leveraged off by our substantial local experience and expertise.
Our focus on advising public and private sector borrowers and leading financial, commercial and industry players gives us a wide perspective of the market and up-to-the-minute knowledge of the latest Ukrainian market and legal developments. Since our lawyers regularly represented banks and borrowers in a variety of financing transactions, we believe we have a unique understanding of the needs of both.
Avellum Partners has an extensive finance expertise working on transactions, which cover a broad range of industries, including FMCG, agriculture, retail, real estate, and financial services. Some of the most significant Finance transactions run by Avellum Partners include: