Practices

Real estate & Infrastructure

Overview

We provide our clients with tailored turnkey solutions for their sophisticated requests on land, real estate, construction, and infrastructure matters based on our expertise and profound understanding of the Ukrainian industries’ specifics.

By integrating our deep practical and academic knowledge, including law drafting experience, we provide the most convenient, forward-looking, and up-to-date advice, especially regarding the dynamic modification of Ukrainian legislation. Our clients rely on us to stay abreast of the most recent legal and commercial developments to catch valuable and unique opportunities successfully.

We are honored to be the trusted advisors to major Ukrainian and international businesses, as well as to work side-by-side with leading international law firms on our cross-border projects.

We help our clients to:

  • negotiate, draft, and execute all types of agreements for infrastructure projects, including construction (both FIDIC-based and non-FIDIC-based), concession, or other PPP agreements
  • acquire or lease state-owned assets through the public auctions
  • streamline infrastructure planning, development, corporate and project financing, acquisitions, and exits
  • do due diligence of, enlarge, improve, manage, systematize, and implement preventive anti-raider measures for their assets
  • check the land banks based on a comprehensive methodology identifying 325 potential standard risks and provide the practical solutions on their remedying
  • navigate efficiently through all the stages of the construction process, from land plot allotment to commissioning and registration of ownership rights to a building
  • smoothly pass all permitting and other regulatory procedures in the course of a project’s life cycle

Key experience

Establishing campus in historic Kyiv River Port building

Legal advisor to American University Kyiv

Investment in Allseeds and due diligence of land bank

16

Mln USD

Legal advisor to Diligent Capital Partners

Acquisition of a container terminal in Chornomorsk Sea Port

291

Mln USD

Legal advisor to Global Ports

Сollaboration with General Electric

1

Bln USD

Legal advisor to JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia”

Acquisition of a 100% stake in Rise Group

300

Mln USD

Legal advisor to Ukrlandfarming

Acquisition of a stake in a terminal operating company in Odesa Sea Port from CMA CGM Group

100

Mln USD

Legal advisor to China Merchants Port

Acquisition of 100% of shares in Rail Transit Kargo Ukraine

64

Mln USD

Legal advisor to Kernel

Construction of a real estate complex in the centre of Kyiv in the form of a joint investment with a business partner

Legal advisor to A-Development, one of the leading Ukrainian developers

Senior secured loan for construction and operation of a 112.5 MW wind farm

136

Mln EUR

Legal advisor to EBRD and Proparco

Legal advisor to Kernel

155

Mln USD

Acquisition of 100% of shares in a large farming business with 190,000 ha of land

Sale of Karavan Hypermarket chain to Auchan Group

Legal advisor to sellers

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Legal alerts

Ukrainian Government approves regulation of state support for investment projects with significant investments

On 26 April 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (“Government”) approved the Procedure for Using Funds from the State Budget to Provide State Support for the Implementation of Investment Projects Involving Significant Investments (“Budget Procedure”). BackgroundThe incentives for investment projects with significant investments (“Investment Project”) were initially introduced by the Law of Ukraine “On […]

Posted on July 6, 2022

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New Law to accelerate industrial reconstruction in Ukraine

On 28 May 2024, Law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine to Simplify the Procedure for Changing the Designated Use of Land Plots to Attract Investments for the Rapid Reconstruction of Ukraine” No. 3563- IX (“Law”) will come into force. The Law enhances the conditions for reconstructing industrial facilities destroyed or damaged by […]

Posted on July 6, 2022

Legal alerts

Procedure for acquisition of ownership right to agricultural lands improved

On 2 May 2023, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted Law “On Amendments to the Laws of Ukraine Regarding Improvements of Legal Regulation of Notarial and Registration Actions When Acquiring the Land Plots” No. 3065-IX (“Law”). The Law aims to regulate specific issues related to acquisition of the ownership right to agricultural land plots (“Agri Lands”). In particular, the Law: · simplifies the […]

Posted on July 6, 2022

News

AVELLUM provided full legal support to American University Kyiv in establishing campus in historic Kyiv River Port building

AVELLUM provided comprehensive legal support to American University Kyiv in establishing its first-of-its-kind educational institution in Ukraine, located in the historic Kyiv River Port building on Poshtova Square in the centre of Kyiv. Throughout the project, our team worked diligently to ensure legal integrity, and sustainability of the university’s presence in the building. Given the […]

Posted on July 6, 2022

News

Maksym Maksymenko has been elected as the Co-Chair of the Chamber Infrastructure Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine

AVELLUM is pleased to announce that our partner Maksym Maksymenko, a Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure, has been elected as the Co-Chair of the Chamber Infrastructure Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Ukraine. In his new role, Maksym will work alongside other committee members to promote the development of Ukraine’s infrastructure […]

Posted on July 6, 2022

Legal alerts

CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT LEGISLATION IMPROVED

Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Proprietary Rights to Real Estate Objects to be Constructed in the Future” No. 2518-IX (“Law”) entered into force on 10 October. This Law aims to protect the rights of those investing in construction and eliminate some legislative gaps in this area. To achieve this goal, the Law: The Law prevents […]

Posted on July 6, 2022

Key contacts

MAKSYM MAKSYMENKO

Partner

mmaksymenko@avellum.com

Team

MYKOLA STETSENKO

Managing Partner

mstetsenko@avellum.com

YULIIA PIDLISNA

Managing Associate

ypidlisna@avellum.com

INNA ERBELIDZE

Senior Associate

ierbelidze@avellum.com

ROSTYSLAV MUSHKA

Senior Associate

rmushka@avellum.com

NATALIIA KVIATKIVSKA

Associate

nkviatkivska@avellum.com

GALYNA VDOVENKO

Associate

gvdovenko@avellum.com

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Antitrust

We provide comprehensive advice on Ukrainian competition law. From merger control and antitrust investigations to state aid & competition litigation – we can deal with any competition issue you have encountered.

Practices

Real estate & Infrastructure

We provide our clients with tailored turnkey solutions for their sophisticated requests on land, real estate, construction, and infrastructure matters based on our expertise and profound understanding of the Ukrainian industries’ specifics.

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