Shareholder agreement can be a very useful tool, in particular, for protection of rights of minority shareholders (investors), and for effective resolution of conflicts among shareholders.

What is the territory of origin of non-resident’s turnover? This is one of the principal issues in preparation for concentration and determination of its mandatory stages.

Intangible assets become irreplaceable value in contemporary market relations. The world largest companies’ rankings, which show more and more technology companies, allow us to state confidently that this resource may lead to a significant success.

In case of the technical regulation system, all steps taken toward enhancing it may significantly help Ukrainian business.

The Ukrainian law practitioners have long been eager for more openness of the anti-trust officials’ practices. That is why the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine, signed on 21 March 2014 is much welcomed. The question is how the process of approximation to the EU anti-trust law will run.

Trusts, as instruments proposed by some foreign jurisdictions, have long been used by Ukrainian businesses. The purposes may vary from assets protection and tax optimization to beneficial owners’ anonymization.

Courts should not assume functions of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) when handling competition cases. Commercial courts can only examine whether the AMCU complied with all procedural requirements when making contested decisions.

How to pay for the foreign investment object? The answer could be found in the Regulations on the Procedure for issuing licenses allowing making investment abroad

The company’s participants are legislatively restricted in their possibilities to resolve the issues of the company’s management. It is a main feature of the corporate relations settlement mechanism in Ukraine.

The procedure of corporate restructuring may include implementation of staff rightsizing and distribution of labor functions among employees and structural subdivisions of the company.

Shareholders use different instruments in their fight for control over company’s business. One of them is challenging the decisions of general shareholders meeting.

It appears the inspectors don't care whether the products are actually safe or not

The Ukrainian legislators managed to amend one of the provisions of the law on property rights registration not amending it.

Pharmaceutical market participant, who came under monitoring of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, should know some aspects of responsibility for violations.

The application of anti-discriminatory measures envisaged by the GATT is not based on a formal approach. The Ukrainian producers should remember this…

After the management of a company decided that lending money abroad would be a good thing, it faces a necessity of the registration.

The general impression of 2012 may be depicted as the year without a breakthrough and fundamental changes.

For now, uncertainty and unpredictability of “ rules of the game” cause a serious damage to the investment climate.

The advance of new technology instruments beats court system’s conservatism. On June 4, 2012 the Law on procedure of video conferencing while court proceedings was adopted.

According to the new version of the Article 17 of the Law of Ukraine “On Securities and Stock Market” the securities traders are obliged to submit the information about all their transactions with issuable securities carried out over the counter or with traders’ participation to the information database of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission.

The National Bank of Ukraine requires that the audit report (in case the foreigner buys a bank) includes the findings which are incompatible with the audit nature.