Subsectors:

• Acquisition Finance
• Derivatives
• Financial Services Regulation
• General Corporate Lending and Refinancing
• Project and Infrastructure Finance
• Real Estate Finance
• Restructuring
• Trade Finance
• Structured Finance

Services:

• Structuring domestic and cross-border finance transactions, including all type of collateral arrangement and hybrid loans, such as bank/bond structures
• Negotiation of loan documentation and security packages
• Documentation of inter-creditor relationships
• Enforcement of collateral
• Tailoring and negotiating derivatives contract documentation, such as the standard documentation from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
• Regulatory advice
• Debt recovery
• Tax advice in finance transactions

Corporate Lending

• Advising EBRD, DFC and IFC in connection with an up to USD 480 million financing package to MHP
• Advising the Netherlands (acting through Invest International Public Programmes B.V.) in connection with EUR 27 million loan to Kovalska​
• Advising EBRD on supporting Nibulon with USD 27 million secured financing
• Advising Citibank on its USD 30 million loan to MHP
• Advising the EBRD in connection with developing mechanisms and policies for setting up risk sharing arrangements between the EBRD and Ukrainian banks for the purposes of creating additional co-financing instruments to support loans to local companies.
• Advising Deutsche Bank AG in connection with up to USD 600 million financing of Ukrlandfarming
• Advising Astarta Group in connection with a loan agreement from AKA Bank secured by a guarantee from export credit agency and guarantees from Astarta’s subsidiaries (PXF financing)
• Advising Empik Media & Fashion Group in connection with 400 million zlotys (USD 129.9 million) loan agreement with lenders

Project Finance

• Advising EBRD in connection with EUR 24 million loan to MHP
• Advising EBRD in connection with risk sharing instruments provided to ProCredit Bank, OTP Bank, OTP Leasing, Kredobank, Credit Agricole Bank, PrivatBank, Bank Lviv, Raiffeisen Bank, and UkrSibbank
• Advising EBRD, NEFCO, BSTDB, Proparco, Finnfund, IFU, FMO, Green for Growth Fund and J.P. Morgan Securities Plc (debt coordinator) in connection with a EUR 262 million secured term loan to SyvashEnergoProm to fund the construction of a 250 MW wind power plant near Syvash Lake, in the Kherson Region of Ukraine, one of the largest renewables project financing in Ukraine
• Advising IFC and EBRD in connection with a USD 74 million senior secured loan to MV Cargo LLC for the greenfield development of an oil and vegetable terminal in Yuzhny seaport in Ukraine
• Advising China Development Bank in connection with USD 3 billion financing to National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine guaranteed by Ukraine
• Advising EBRD in connection with a EUR 48 million loan to LLC Novoazovskiy Wind Park aimed at developing a 57.5MV Novoazovsk Wind Farm
• Advising EBRD in connection with the USD 56 million term secured loan, including USD 8 million tranche funded by the Clean Technology Fund, to be provided to four Ukrainian members of the Kernel Group for the construction of four biomass plants
• Advising FMO, Green for Growth Fund and Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits with respect to EUR 37 million financing for the construction, maintenance and operation of a 54MW solar PV plant in Bohuslav, Kyiv region

Restructuring

• Advising Deutsche Bank, ING, Natixis and UniCredit on the restructuring of over USD 1 billion Metinvest debt
• Advising Citibank Europe Plc in connection with restructuring of its loan facility for the total amount of USD 88 million previously provided to Rubizhne Cardboard and Packaging Mill (RKTK)
• Advising SALIC, one of the largest agricultural producers, in connection with acquisition of Mriya amidst massive debt restructuring and insolvency; advice on various debt restructuring and insolvency issues
• Advising the committee of creditors in connection with the USD 820 million debt restructuring of Public Joint Stock Company “Donetsksteel – Iron and Steel Works”, Ukraine’s largest producer of hard coking coal
• Advising EBRD in connection with restructuring USD 90 million financing of Interleaseinvest LLC, one of the leading privately-owned providers of rail cargo transportation and freight railcar operating lease services to corporate clients in Ukraine
• Advising Landesbank Berlin in connection with the restructuring of a EUR 244 million financing provided to Wind Power LLC (part of DTEK Group), guaranteed by EKF, a Danish export credit agency
• Advising the coordinating committee of lenders in connection with debt restructuring of RUSAL Group in Ukraine
• Advising FUIB in connection with restructuring a USD 237 million credit facility granted by a group of foreign banks

Trade and Pre-Export Finance

• Advising Ferrexpo, a leading European producer of iron ore pellets, in connection with a USD 400 million pre-export finance facility
• Advising UniCredit Bank Austrian AG and ING Bank N.V. in connection with an up to USD 200 million PXF revolving credit facility to Kernel Group
• Advising Natixis SA in connection with Ukrainian law aspects relating to extension of a USD 210 facility agreement secured, among others, by a pledge over grain commodities stored in various facilities across Ukraine by Kernel