Family Law

• Adoption

Criminal Law

• Money Laundering
  Preparing several comprehensive overviews of Ukrainian law on financial services, banking, currency regime and relevant regulatory requirements, including for financing, pre-financing and securing transactions, applicable data protection, anti-money-laundering and anticorruption regulations, as well as other compliance issues.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  According to PLC Which lawyer? RULG is "leading" in the area of labor law and "recommended" in the corporate law area. RULG President Dr. Irina Paliashvili and Managing Partner Victor Kovalenko have been included in the U.S. based Best Lawyers ® publication list of leading lawyers as best lawyers in the corporate law area for Ukraine.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Irina frequently speaks at international conferences and publishes on the legal and business climates in Ukraine and other countries of the ECA (Europe-Caucuses-Asia) economic region. She serves as the Chair of the Legal Committee of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, for which she leads the on-going pro-bono project on the White Paper on Legal and Governance Reform in Ukraine. Irina is a Member of the Advisory Board of the largest Section on Public and Professional Interest (SPPI) of the International Bar Association (IBA) and a member of the Advisory Board of Best Lawyers®. She is the founder of the ECA (Europe-Caucuses-Asia) Legal Forum, which in 10 years has become the main platform in the ECA region for the wide-scale gathering of leading business lawyers, and at present is held under the auspices of IBA. She is regularly included in the Hundred Best Lawyers of Ukraine (Clients' Choice) and in the list of most successful and well-known women lawyers in Ukraine based on the surveys conducted by Yurydychna Gazeta, a leading legal publication in Ukraine. She is also regularly included in the top 10 best lawyers in Ukraine, as well as named "Lawyer of the Year" in several practice areas (Antitrust, Arbitration and Mediation, Corporate, Energy and Natural Resources Law and Mergers and Acquisitions) by Best Lawyers®, which is regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S. and around the world.
• Business Disputes
  We are happy to report the continuing success of the ECA (Europe-Caucasus-Asia) Legal Forum, an informal network of managing partners of the leading business law firms of the ECA economic region, which our law firm founded in 2006, and which as of 2015 became a part of the International Bar Association (IBA). It was highly symbolic that the first Forum of the new reincarnation - the 2016 IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum (IBA ECA Forum) - was successfully held in Ukraine, where it started more than ten years ago. Since then the ECA Forum continues to be successfully held on annual basis in various parts of the ECA region.
• Business Transactions
  Adherence to best practices in anticorruption we comply fully with the requirements of both the U.S.'s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") and the OECD's Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development;
• Limited Liability Companies
  Assisting with on-going internal company or representative office issues such as organizing shareholders and board meetings, properly documenting such meetings, drafting internal documentation to ensure compliance with the Ukrainian legislation, assisting with purchase and sale of shares in joint stock companies and helping with obtaining and disposing of interests in limited liability companies.
• Intellectual Property
  Successfully defended several brands of the leading global confectionary manufacturer against multiple infringements by the local manufacturers and imported infringing products, used combination of the remedies available through the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine proceedings, the court civil and administrative claims and protection mechanisms available through the Ministry of Interior's special Intellectual Property Protection Unit.
• Unfair Competition
  In addition to our specific capability in the field of Intellectual Property, we have considerable experience in related areas of law, such as representing clients on matters involving unfair competition and false advertising. For example, we have...
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Drafting model employment agreements for use in hiring for regular positions, drafting employment specifications for various positions.
• Employment Litigation
  Representing a large European company providing financial services and insurance agent services in various legal matters in Ukraine, including corporate restructuring, regulatory approvals, legal documentation, various types of services contracts, employment issues and other matters.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  The RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group (RULG) routinely advises our corporate clients on land and real estate matters and has extensive experience in the construction sector. To cite just a few examples, our practical experience in these fields includes...

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Provide in-country legal advice on matters involving corporate and investment law, business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, anti-monopoly regulation, securities regulation, labor law, customs law, bankruptcy law, intellectual and industrial property protection, tax law, legislative drafting, oil, gas and power regulation, land and real-estate issues, construction regulations, environmental issues, telecommunications, agriculture, and privatization;
• Tax Law