We are pleased to share Asters’ contribution to The Legal 500 Merger Control Country Comparative Guide: Ukraine, prepared by our Competition & Antitrust team: Partners Igor Svechkar and Oleksii Pustovit, Counsels Tetiana Bebik, Pavlo Verbolyuk and Sergey Glushchenko.
The chapter provides a practical, deal-focused guide to Ukrainian merger control, covering the key questions businesses and their advisers typically need to assess when structuring, notifying, and closing a transaction.
It explores:
- when a transaction requires notification to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, including foreign-to-foreign deals
- how thresholds are calculated and whose activities need to be taken into account
- key considerations for joint ventures, minority acquisitions, and multi-step transactions
- what information to prepare and what to expect from the review process;
- review timelines and procedures
- FDI-related, sanctions and national-security considerations
- risks of closing before clearance, clearance validity, and treatment of non-competes and other transaction-related restrictions
The focus is not just on whether clearance is required, but on how to navigate the process and avoid surprises along the way.
Read the chapter ? https://www.legal500.com/guides/chapter/ukraine-merger-control/
Authors:
Partners Igor Svechkar and Oleksii Pustovit,
Counsels Tetiana Bebik, Pavlo Verbolyuk and Sergey Glushchenko.