As a business owner, if you decide to set up a new business in the energy sector, we will be pleased to support you in the following matters:

• Incorporation and state registration of a project company on a "turn-key" basis (including, employment and banking issues)
• Legal support to your project managers, including receipt of title to the land and all permits necessary to conduct business in the energy sector in Ukraine
• Comprehensive legal advice to your financial department with regard to financing project development 
• Further legal support of day-to-day business operations

As a business owner, if you want to sell your energy business (or any part thereof), we can provide our comprehensive legal support with:

• Vendor due diligence, which will help to identify relevant risks and mitigate them in a timely manner to avoid reduction of value
• Corporate, asset, or debt pre-sale restructuring (including optimising corporate or asset structure for future transactions, preparing and drafting all documents necessary for the restructuring, and receiving all permits and approvals)
• Transactional work (including preparing and negotiating agreements on the sale and purchase (shares or assets), agreements for joint venture, shareholders' agreements, call/put options, guarantees, side letters, etc.)
• Assistance with fulfilment of the pre-completion conditions and further post-closing integration
• Receipt of all corporate and regulatory approvals required for the transaction (including merger control clearance)

If your management decides to purchase energy business (or its part) we can provide our legal assistance in the following matters:

• A comprehensive legal due diligence of a target and its assets
• Deal structuring for acquisition of shares or assets
• Transactional work (including preparing and negotiating agreements on the sale and purchase (shares or assets), agreements for joint venture, shareholders' agreements, call/put options, guarantees, side letters, etc.)
• Assistance with fulfillment the pre-completion conditions and further post-closing integration
• Receipt of all corporate and regulatory approvals required for the transaction (including merger clearance, creditors' approvals, etc.)

If you need to set up or settle your business relations with other shareholders, we will provide our legal support in the following matters:

• Joint ventures (minority and majority stakes)
• Corporate governance (including drafting and negotiating shareholders' agreements, developing the constitutional documents and by-laws, etc.)
• Development of a withdrawal strategy from business (including preparing and negotiating the relevant call and/or put option agreements, legal assistance with the drag and/or tag along matters, etc.) 
• Compliance with the rights of first refusal and/or pre-emption rights of other shareholders
• Reorganisation and/or business restructuring