For some considerable time, there has been periodic interest in legal and political circles in the use of Kazakhstan’s experience and the incorporation of British jurisdiction within its own domestic jurisdiction. That is, the creation of a special “court for the protection of foreign investment”, consisting of highly qualified representatives from different jurisdictions: Britain, America, France, Germany. Yevgen Dyadyuk, a…
Read MoreIn Ukraine, legal protection is not available to marks that conflict with good public order and the principles of humanity and morality. Maria Koval, Counsel for Redcliffe Partners, and Anastasia Yushina, associate for Redcliffe Partners, have written an article for Yurydychna Gazeta, in which they examined the grounds for classifying trademarks as immoral. To read the text of the article…
Read MoreThe Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the “AMC”) has been extremely active since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. Investigations have been launched into parallel price increases (i) by pharmacies and wholesale suppliers of healthcare products and (ii) by food retailers and their wholesale suppliers of vegetables and long-life foodstuffs. Another hotly debated COVID-related case concerns the spike in prices for…
Read MoreOn 31 March 2020, the Ukrainian Supreme Court upheld the first decision of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the “AMC”) on the unlawfulness of state aid and concluded that the AMC is not required to analyse the effect of aid on trade between Ukraine and the EU in state aid cases. The state aid regime was introduced in Ukraine based…
Read MoreAnastasia Usova, Partner at Redcliffe Partners, contributed to the e-Competitions Special Issue “Competition policy & COVID-19: An overview of antitrust agencies’ responses”. This Special Issue contains articles and press releases from private practitioners and agencies in more than 20 countries, covering a broad range of reactions and perspectives from around the world. The Special Issue can be accessed by this link….
Read MoreOn 13 March 2020, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the “AMC”) announced that it would investigate any unjustified price hikes for medicines, face masks and other personal health protection items, the creation of artificial product shortages, and other abuses generating profits from coronavirus fears. On 15 March 2020, Olexiy Khmelnytsky, Head of the Kyiv Regional Office of the AMC, announced…
Read MoreAnastasia Usova, Head of the Antitrust practice of Redcliffe Partners, and Tetyana Smurova, Associate, prepared an expert commentary on the record fine totalling EUR 245.3 million imposed by the AMC on the Ukrainian subsidiaries of four leading international tobacco producers and their sole distributor in Ukraine, LLC “TEDIS Ukraine”, for anti-competitive concerted practices. The commentary was published in e-Competitions –…
Read MoreThe leading online news website for the international photovoltaic community which covers topical trends and worldwide sector developments, features an article titled “Transformation of support system for renewables following introduction of renewable energy auctions in Ukraine” by Svitlana Teush, head of the renewable energy, real estate and construction practices at Redcliffe Partners, as a contribution to its “Opinion & Analysis” section. To…
Read MoreThe article entitled “Legal Aspects of Using FIDIC Contracts in International Construction Projects in Ukraine” by Svitlana Teush, Head of Real Estate and Construction at Redcliffe Partners, and Lukas Klee, Consultant at Klee Consulting (Czech Republic), was published in the world’s leading journal on international construction law, “International Construction Law Review”, Issue No.1, 2018. The article provides an overview of current practice,…
Read MoreOn 20 December 2016, the Ukrainian Parliament approved a new law providing that local budgets will receive a portion of revenues from subsoil use royalties. Currently, 100 percent of such revenues go directly to the state budget. However, under the new law, the state budget will receive only 95 percent of the revenues. The remaining 5 percent will be distributed…
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