services

Company law

Company law covers all aspects of a company’s life: setting up and registering a business, expanding the business, opening new branches and subsidiaries, making changes to the company’s structure and reorganisation, corporate and shareholders’ agreements, rebranding, changes to founders, directors, senior management and shareholders, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring, insolvency, liquidation and the winding-up of a business.

At each of these stages, Dictum’s corporate law lawyers will analyse the state of your business, assess the planned actions and suggest alternatives, determine the need for corporate changes, examine the reputation of partners and counterparties, formalise all contractual relationships and represent your interests when dealing with government bodies.

OUR SERVICES

Business structuring and set-up

legal analysis of the business model;
advice on effective ways of conducting business;
planning the desired corporate structure;
tax planning;
establishing a business structure based on the business model;
registration of sole traders, limited liability companies, private enterprises, joint ventures and other business forms in Ukraine and abroad;
registration of business associations, non-governmental organisations, charitable foundations and other associations, as well as media organisations in Ukraine and abroad;
registration of branches, representative offices and other organisational units;
registration and leasing of a registered office address;
setting up accounting and tax accounting systems;
registration for tax purposes with the State Tax Service;
registration of statutory documents;
concluding tenancy agreements for offices, warehouses and other premises, and supporting negotiations with the landlord;
advising on the procedure for obtaining and supporting the issuance of licences, certificates, permits and other authorisation documents.

Experts:

Svitlana Moroz

Implementing organisational changes in a business

carrying out registration changes, altering and increasing the authorised capital, and adding new founders;
corporate structuring;
establishment of additional legal entities within a group of companies;
secure business structuring using sole traders;
legal support for rebranding and amendments to registers, including changes to and registration of trade marks;
support for changes to founders, directors, company names and registered offices;
changes to founders in companies with a foreign element and in Ukrainian representative offices of foreign companies.

Experts:

Svitlana Moroz

Business set-up and support

support for business operations;
drafting model, standard and bespoke contracts;
drafting corporate agreements and supporting the process of their signing;
auditing existing and new contracts;
advice on amending contracts;
management and valuation of corporate rights and shares in limited liability companies;
supporting the sale of corporate rights and shares in limited liability companies;
supporting business negotiations and the signing of contracts.

Experts:

Svitlana Moroz

Corporate security

drafting confidentiality agreements;
establishing a system for safeguarding trade secrets and confidential information;
protection of non-residents’ corporate rights in Ukraine;
business mediation: facilitating negotiations with owners and senior managers of counterparties, identifying mutually beneficial solutions, and formalising the outcomes of negotiations in corporate agreements;
removing fictitious founders from the company’s register;
establishing a corporate security system;
establishing elements of economic security within the enterprise.

Experts:

Svitlana Moroz

Establishing a company’s legal presence

advising owners residing abroad on conducting business in Ukraine on behalf of the client;
organising tax and accounting systems;
opening branches and representative offices abroad;
participating in business negotiations on behalf of the client;
representing the client in dealings with the authorities;
facilitating the signing of contracts and documents on behalf of the client;
participating in negotiations on pricing policy on behalf of the client;
supporting the resolution of disputes in the event of a breach of contract;
analysing incoming correspondence sent to the client’s registered address;
advising on how to reply to letters from authorities and counterparties and on subsequent actions;
preparing responses on behalf of the client to defend their position;
support during inspections by regulatory authorities at the client’s registered office.