• Overview
• Main Areas of Practice

• Practice Overview
• Endorsements

• Representative Clients
• Languages Spoken

Gvozdiy & Oberkovych Law Firm provides a broad range of business related legal services to domestic and foreign clients in Ukraine. The firm’s core expertise lies in the field of corporate and commercial law.

Overview

In a few short years, this firm has established the reputation of being one of the most prestigious law firms in Ukraine. It has earned several awards and has been recognized by its peers for its quality of service, level of expertise and knowledge of the law. Gvozdiy & Oberkovych was recently named one of the top 50 law firms in Ukraine by Judicial Practice magazine (Yuridicheskaya Praktika) the top Ukrainian legal publication.

In structuring cross border transactions, Gvozdiy & Oberkovych makes it easy for their clients. The firm assists its clients in establishing a presence in Ukraine, navigating through the peculiarities of local law and overcoming obstacles to conducting successful business.

The partners and staff of Gvozdiy & Oberkovych believe that proper planning and appropriate legal advice are the most important factors in any start-up or existing enterprise. Although the firm counsels clients on a case by case basis, Gvozdiy & Oberkovych has developed a comprehensive template which is tailored according to each client’s needs. The process ensures that the overall legal needs of any business are met on ongoing basis, while allowing the clients to focus their energy on running their business.

Gvozdiy & Oberkovych values its clients by providing the highest level of service and recognizes that the success of the firm’s practice is directly related to the success of the firm’s clients.

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Main Areas of Practice

• Agriculture
• Banking and finance
• Bankruptcy and insolvency
• Business restructuring
• Construction and engineering
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Energy and natural resources
• Government
• Import and export
• Intellectual property
• Labour and employment
• Media and advertising
• Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
• Real estate
• Retail
• Taxation
• Telecommunications
• Tourism and hospitality

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Practice Overview

Gvozdiy & Oberkovych Law Firm believes that a law firm should not only satisfy all clients’ requirements, but proactively address all potential legal issues that may arise.

Business people are constantly dealing with a wide range of business and legal matters. Advice from a qualified law firm, knowledgeable and experienced in the international arena as well as the local legal and business climate does not only guarantee a peace of mind for a client, but also substantially decreases risks in any business activity.

Gvozdiy & Oberkovych Law Firm adopts a comprehensive approach to client matters. A team of qualified practicing lawyers and support personnel assist clients in preparation of business start-ups, expansions and ongoing corporate strategies.

We perform complete due diligence for those companies considering or are in the process of mergers and acquisitions.

The firm structures multi-national contractual transactions and assists its clients in project financing and development.

We have a carefully selected team of experienced professionals dedicated to obtaining, maintaining and executing all necessary registrations, permits and licenses.

Our firm represents clients on various matters with the Antimonopoly Committee, Securities and Stock Market State Committee, Tax and Customs Authorities, along with all other existing Ukrainian government entities.
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Representative Clients

• Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka, a. s. - According to the prestigious economic magazine Global Finance, CSOB is the best provider of financial services for international trade (BEST TRADE FINANCE PROVIDER AWARD 2008). This award assesses services of individual banks in the area of export financing, factoring, and documentary transactions and guarantees http://www.csob.cz/;
• PSG - PSG Group PSG is a modern and dynamic corporation operating in the Czech Republic and throughout the world for more than 80 years. Company designs and builds various projects and facilitate project financing for international clients. Core Business: Complete delivery of large investment projects including project financing: Power plants; Chemical and Petrochemical Projects; Factories; Shopping malls; Hotels; Office buildings Logistic centres http://www.psg.eu;
• Rep Office of AVIAREPS Group in Ukraine - is the world's leading tourism and airline management company with approx. 70 airlines and 85 tourism accounts in its portfolio. In addition to its core businesses, passenger sales and tourism marketing, clients can also choose from the successful company divisions public relations, advertising, IT solutions and financial services http://www.aviareps.com;
• AGORA s.a. - Agora and "Gazeta Wyborcza" (Election Gazette) were created on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 1989. "Gazeta" became the first independent newspaper in Poland, while Agora grew into one of the largest and most renowned media companies in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1999 Agora's shares have been listed on the Warsaw and London stock exchanges http://www.agora.pl;
• AVIS UKRAINE - the leading car rental company in Ukraine http://www.avis.com.ua;
• DOMINANTA ENERGY - Basic areas of activities of JSC «Dominanta-Energy» are: energy audit of enterprises, including analysis of financial and technical information, making-out balance sheets of energy consumption and distribution, as well as development of energy-saving measures and evaluation of technical-and-economic effect of their adaption. The Company also performs complete cycle design of sites and technical-and-economic provision development of any project and delivers diesel-generator sets http://www.domenergy.ru;
• THE PBN COMPANY - The PBN Company is the leading international strategic communications firm specializing in Russia, Ukraine, other CIS countries and the Baltic States. The PBN helps Western clients design and implement strategies to maximize their investments in the region. And, this company works with Russian, CIS and Baltic companies to expand their domestic marketshare and build their businesses into global enterprises. In the United States, Europe and the CIS, The PBN Company also works with companies, industries and business associations to advance their public policy objectives at the federal, regional and local levels http://www.pbnco.com;
• IRI (Ukraine office) - The US Congress responded to President Reagan’s call in 1983 when it created the National Endowment for Democracy to support aspiring democrats worldwide. Four nonprofit, nonpartisan democracy institutes were formed to carry out this work – IRI, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS). Since 1994, the International Republican Institute (IRI) has been actively supporting democracy in Ukraine. Through a broad spectrum of programs, IRI is helping Ukrainian people learn the skills needed to build a strong, stable democracy http://www.iri.org/eurasia/ukraine.asp;
• PRO BONO: Ukraine 3000 and Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation. Gvozdiy and Oberkovych Law Firm is the official legal partner of the Children's Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation and Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation. "Creating this Foundation, we sought to make it as useful for Ukraine as possible. We tried to figure out our society’s most urgent needs in the vortex of modern life. Our conclusion was that people indispensably need to believe in certain prospects for the country, for their families, and for themselves, no matter how they picture these prospects. One needs to be certain that the period of instability and problems will come to an end, if one believes in the future with all one’s heart and puts much effort into building it up." - Kateryna Yushchenko, Head of the Supervisory Board

 

Languages Spoken

• English
• Russian
• Ukrainian