Asters

Legal Services | Belgium
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200 Avenue Louise | Brussels | 1050 | Belgium

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Oleksiy Didkovskiy

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Co-Managing Partner

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Overview

Asters office in Brussels provides a convenient interface for the firm's friends and clients in Brussels and throughout the EU. This helps further optimize and streamline domestic work done for our partners, such as multi-jurisdictional merger filings and trade issues.

The office does not advise on EU law but focuses on development of the longstanding relationships with international law firms to better serve our mutual clients. It also acts as a liaison to EU institutions and Brussels-based NGOs.

Asters presence at the heart of EU enables our lawyers from multiple practices to closely monitor developments in European law and policy and offer Ukrainian clients timely reports on the issues likely to affect them — whether now or soon.

Such firm's access to the EU outlook contributes to legal and advocacy skills of our lawyers enabling the team to provide comprehensive advice in various legislative, regulatory, and policy projects.

Asters was the first Ukrainian law firm to open an office in Brussels in November 2018.

Year this Office was Established: 2018
Lawyers Worldwide: 120

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Global Arbitration Review - Invitation for New Series - Commercial Arbitration Know-How 2023: Ukraine

Infrastructure 1 Is your state a party to the New York Convention? Are there any noteworthy declarations or reservations? Yes, Ukraine is a party to the New York Convention. It was ratified in 1960 by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) (as a part of the former Soviet Union). Following the declaration of independence in 1991, Ukraine confirmed its obligations under all international treaties entered into by the Ukrainian SSR, including the New York Convention...

One Year Later: The Results and Prospects of the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention

  One year ago, on June 21, 2022, the President signed the law on the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence and the fight against these phenomena. The Convention entered into force for Ukraine on November 1, 2022. Asters  partner  Talina Kravtsova  and the company's lawyer  Maryna Kornienko analyzed what happened during this time and what steps Ukraine took to combat violence against women  . On June 1, 2023, the EU Council approved the accession of the European Union to the convention...

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Asters advises JSC Ukrainian Railways on USD 895 million Eurobonds restructuring

Asters acted as a Ukrainian counsel for JSC Ukrainian Railways in the successful restructurings of loan participation notes issued by Rail Capital Markets plc in the total amount of USD 895 million (one in relation to its USD 300 million 7.875%. loan participation notes due 2026 and another in relation to its USD 594.9 million 8.250% loan participation notes due 2024). Holders of both loan participations Notes agreed to extend the maturity dates of the relevant loan agreements, provide for the deferral of interest during a two-year period, make certain amendments to the covenants contained in the loan agreements and replace the trustee...

Asters advises EBRD on EUR 10 million financing for Grain Alliance Group

Asters acts as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its EUR 10 million financing for Grain Alliance Group, a Swedish-owned large-sized agricultural holding in Ukraine that cultivates around 60,000 hectares of land. The loan will be used to improve and expand export capacity for grain, which was disrupted as a result of Russia's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. To this end, Grain Alliance Group will increase storage capacity, modernise infrastructure, as well as purchase grain hoppers, locomotives and trucks to ensure safe grain transport from Ukraine to Slovakia and onwards to final customers...

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