PRACTICAL GUIDES of ALEXANDROV & PARTNERS

For over 10 years of practice the lawyers of ALEXANDROV & PARTNERS International Law Firm have published over 500 articles and commentaries in periodicals and about 30 research- based articles.

Also, so far the Company has issued three books:

• Rights to Land. Problematic Matters.
• Legal Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions in Ukraine.
• M&A Transactions in Ukraine. Legal Aspects.

All three books are practical guides containing the expertise of our lawyers in the relevant practice areas, giving examples of specific legal cases, describing solutions, and providing practical advice.

The most recent practical guide “M&A Transactions in Ukraine. Legal Aspects” was published in 2011 in Russian and English.

In the above practical guide the lawyers of our company, having many years of experience in providing legal support of M&A transactions, share their legal techniques and expertise in preparing and execution of M&A transactions, methods of managing the existing legal and commercial risks and ways to cope with such risks.

The guide also presents samples of complex legal documents – a deal structuring agreement, an option sale and purchase agreement, and a shareholders’ agreement.

The key articles of the practical guide “M&A Transactions in Ukraine. Legal Aspects” cover the following matters:

• Preliminary stage of M&A transaction. Setting forth the parties’ intentions to make the deal in legal documents.
• Factors preventing M&A deals. Identification and removal at an early stage (attachments, third party claims, etc.).
• Transaction strategy and deal structuring agreement: reflecting the discovered problem issues, their resolution, sharing risks between the participants.
• Implementing М&А deals under unstable tax and corporate legislation. Non-resident М&А.
• Stand-alone asset transactions. Non-performing assets and related transactions.
• Risks and advantages of implementing M&A transactions involving companies under bankruptcy proceedings.
• Intellectual property in M&A deals. Transition of IP rights.
• Shareholders’ Agreement: the importance and legal specifics of the document in mergers. The mechanism of exiting a jointly owned business.
• The first walk around your new business: stock-taking, discovering other hidden defects, adjustment of the deal value.
• Land transactions as a specific type of M&A deals.
• Ukrainian law and judicial practice related to implementing M&A transactions: antitrust and foreign exchange regulations; judicial practice on current issues of M&A deals; dispute resolution between business partners.

Practical guide “M&A Transactions in Ukraine. Legal Aspects” both in Russian and English is available on the open market and may be bought at Petrivka book market in Kyiv or directly from the Kyiv office of ALEXANDROV & PARTNERS.

To purchase the book, please call us at +38 (044) 453-77-87, or e-mail: office@lawyers.com.ua.

The price of the guide is UAH 120.