Commentary on Ukrainian law for foreign counsel, investors and lessors — written by the lawyers who run the matters.
Aviation & Asset Finance
Ukraine's Cape Town declarations are among the most creditor-friendly in Europe: Alternative A with a sixty-day waiting period, IDERA, and remedies exercisable without leave of court. Four paragraphs that decide…
Dispute Resolution
Anna and Gennadii Tsirat write the Ukrainian national monograph for the International Encyclopaedia for Civil Procedure (Wolters Kluwer), written by them since 2011, the current edition dated May 2019. What…
Dispute Resolution
In 2019 Best Lawyers listed Gennadii Tsirat among the best lawyers in Ukraine in Arbitration and Mediation. This page records that listing and sets out the record it was measuring:…
Dispute Resolution
Defamation claims in Ukraine are usually lost on proof, not on merits. The presumption that negative information is false was repealed in 2014, so the claimant now carries the burden.…
Contract Structuring
A German and a French company argue inside one system — Rome I. A Ukrainian and a French company do not: there are two sets of conflict rules, one on…
Dispute Resolution
The ICC Rules a Kyiv audience was shown in 2017 are two editions out of date, and the expedited-procedure threshold has moved twice — US$4 million for clauses concluded from…
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