Services

Our clients are individuals as well as legal entities. We can help our clients not only through solving existing problems, but through prevention of possible negative consequences of their actions in different situations.

We provide the following services: consultancy, legal audit, representation of our client's interests in courts, legal backing of contracts, negotiations facilitation and reaching mutual agreements, legal check ups of potential contracts with evaluation of all the risks which could affect our client in every area mentioned above where our firm of attorneys operates.

Services for legal entities



Land. Environmental issues

Land is becoming a more and more essential and expensive ownership object. Soon the prohibition on the purchase and sale of agricultural lands will be lifted. This means that big agricultural enterprises will get a push for further development. In addition the industrial objects tend to be moved outside the city limits. Consequently, such issues like rent, purchase, endorsement of land ownership, etc. are becoming more essential. Along with this, problems about abidance to environmental and conservation regulations at the construction works become more substantial.

Very often incomplete knowledge of Ukrainian land law as well as the ambiguity of law language concerning construction works becomes a reason for complications in entrepreneur's economic activity. We know which mechanisms are better to use to prevent possible problems and help to resolve difficult situations, which are already there.

Legal consultancy

At the Syutkin and Partners law firm you can receive qualified advice on any issues related to land and wild life protection. The firm’s staff is made up of PhDs in law science on land law, who are contributors to the amendments of the relevant laws. Furthermore, our lawyers have considerable practical experience of successful projects implementations in this branch of law. We’ve been working about it now for more than 9 years.

Legal revisions for land ownership disputes

The important issue in that part is to get and legitimate land ownership. Our lawyers can make a detailed legal revision of such cases and provide legal advocacy in disputable issues. We are constantly monitoring the current laws and regulations about the land ownership in Ukraine.

We also analyze the basic regulations essential for ownership rights recognition to make them compatible to our clients’ documents. Relying on such analysis we give or do not give legal recommendation for purchase of this or that piece of land.

We also advise on possible negative consequences of the contract and options to escape them.

Pattern contracts provided for buying/selling land contracts

Our lawyers will help you to make a legally correct contract on any operations related to the sale, purchase, renting, etc. of land and to process documents in a competent way.

(See also «Contracts law»).

Designing and endorsing of contracts

We offer complete legal support during the purchase, sale or renting of land. Our lawyers will provide you with the legal essentials for commercial deals, support in the reaching commercial agreements, confirmation the rights on land objects currently or in the future (contracts of buying/selling, renting, bailing and other operations in the sphere of land tenure). Furthermore, they will control the process of signing the contract, its notarization and state registration. They will also check the pattern and content of documents establishing your rights.

Legal defence of investors

In case of property rights violation or breach the investor’s land rights (such as illegal land acquisition, ownership rights withdrawal by a decision of state structures or legal authorities, unilateral break of purchase contract etc.) in legal disputes we provide services to defend an investor’s interests in courts of all levels.

(See also «Legal disputes»)

Real estate and construction

Any economic activity of legally registered entities is always connected with issues of rent, purchase or construction of real estate objects. The disputes in this area are often caused by imperfect laws, lack of objects on sale, unfair competition and corruption with state officials as well as ignorance of businessmen about the laws.

Syutkin and Partners experts offer services in designing the contracts to buy and rent objects of real estate, revision and legal support of contracts, and also the legal estimation of feasibility to buy or rent any object.

Also, due to several successfully implemented construction projects, our firm lawyers have worked out reliable pathways of legal support for various stages of construction works. In addition, our lawyers use individual approach to every construction project.

Providing legal consultancy

At Syutkin and Partners you can receive qualified consultancy on any issue connected with real estate and construction.

Legal audit in the area of real estate and construction.

If you plan to buy or build any real estate objects, our lawyers can examine in detail various ways of implementing your intentions. We study and analyze regulating documents which are the guidelines in the area of real estate buildings construction in Ukraine. We also monitor the documents establishing ownership rights and regulating contracts dealing with objects which an investor wants to purchase or build.

Our firms attorneys will, on the basis of current arbitration practice, provide you with consultancy on the weak points of any deal and any potential risks therein, any of them that could provide a ground for a dispute in future about the client's rights. Working on a deal, our firm's attorneys minimize such potential risks.

As a result of such work we come up with legal conclusion about advisability of purchasing an object, and also about deal's possible negative consequences and ways of preventing them.

Designing all types of contracts dealing with real estate and construction.

Our lawyers will help you to make a legally correct contract on any operations connected with real estate and building, as well as to outline your documents in a competent way.

(See also «Contract law»).

Acting proxy for a client in legal authorities

 

Contract law

Making contracts has a great significance for economic activities of businesses and public organizations. The legally correct contracts and proper documents are the fundamentals in achieving business aims. Contract relations are regulated by contract laws.

The jest of contract lawyer’s work is to prepare and get ready all the essential documents.

The timely examination of a document can keep a company from serious legal risks in the future and save a considerable expenses imposed by a contract execution or due to negative consequences of breaking the contract or invalidity of the contract.

In the sphere of contact services we provide our clients the following:

  • offer of pattern contracts and discussing them with contractors;
  • legal evaluation of contracts;
  • consultancy about different forms of fulfilling contracts;
  • amendments of disagreements coming up during the contract term;
  • minimization of losses after contract breaching;
  • reporting disagreements in contracts to be signed by contractors for final resolution;
  • contract works carrying for businesses;
  • checking the economic activity of contractors;
  • making claims about breaching agreement terms of by the parties;
  • contracts denunciation in a legal way.

All types of contracts where we can offer you a qualified legal support are mentioned below:

  • buy/sale contract (land, real estate, transport facilities, corporate rights, funds, objects of intellectual property etc.)
  • contract to supply goods and services;
  • rent contract (land, real estate, transport facilities, corporate rights, funds, objects of intellectual property etc.);
  • bail contract;
  • commission contract;
  • collaboration contract;
  • guarantee contract;
  • security contract;
  • leasing contract;
  • services contract;
  • transportation contract;
  • storage security contract;
  • insurance contract;
  • managerial rights takeover contracts;
  • licensing agreements;
  • publisher's agreements.

Commercial contracts

Large and medium-sized business companies require, as a rule, competent legal support in all their activities from the set up time till the shutting down the business activities. Our experience in the field of corporate law enables us to solve various problems which come up in daily routine.

At the stage of setting up a new business our lawyers can provide support in issues like: choosing the optimal legal form of the business enterprise, designing the initial internal corporate documents, creation of the basic structure, organization and holding the general meeting of shareholders, employment regulations within the company.

We provide consultancy for company directors on issues of inner corporate management, creation of a chain of branches and representative offices.

Our lawyers can also do the legal evaluations of the company’s corporate structure, its internal documentation both at the time of a firm’s routine business activities and in case of reorganization of its structure, merger with other entities or different economic associations, at the periods of big contracts signing. Apart from that, our firm’s lawyers provide complete support to the procedure of company reorganization (merger, affiliation, sharing, division, restructuring). Being an experienced company we can take care of the smallest nuances of the processes.

Furthermore, we provide assistance in resolving corporate conflicts, mediation in corporate disputes according to actual laws and defending shareholders’ rights.

The defense of organizations from unfriendly takeover, as well as from dispersing shares packets, attacks from the tax police and anti-monopoly committees.

Corporate conflicts resolutions

Our specialists are ready to provide legal support to an enterprise which has been involved in a corporate conflict. Such conflicts can come both from inside the company or can be caused by actions from competitors or raiders. Our lawyers are ready to provide effective support to a client in case of such conflicts. They also have experience in making recommendations and tools to prevent them.

Bankruptcy

Our lawyers cannot prevent the bankruptcy of a commercial company, but they can minimize the risks, which lead to this process.

Furthermore, the lawyers at Syutkin and Partners can represent the interests of creditors during institution of a range of procedures precedent to bankruptcy, relative to a debtor enterprise.

Legal disputes

The Syutkin and Partners firm of attorneys has considerable experience of representing clients’ interests in courts of all levels.

We can also represent your interests in international courts, including international commercial arbitration, as well as at the European Court of Human Rights. We can prepare all the necessary documents and take all necessary procedures and stages of suits in Ukraine, which is a compulsory for legal investigation at an international court.

Our lawyers often deal with cases investigated by private arbitration. The decisions of these courts are equal to the state courts sentences. The big advantage of such disputes is that both parties are ready, from the very beginning, to solve their dispute amicably. The judges of the court to investigate the dispute are picked up in agreement of both parties. The counterparts can have the advantage of a dispute investigation without state interference. Thus, it becomes a very mobile instrument for solving commercial disputes. In addition, the resolutions of the above mentioned courts become a subject to appeal only in exceptional cases, as the majority of them are final.

Legal disputes in the area of land issues

In the case of breaching the land ownership rights (such as illegal land acquisition, land taking over according to a decision by state bodies or legal authorities, unilateral breach of contract of tenancy etc.) or in legal disputes we provide services to defend the interests of people in courts of all levels.

Our lawyers audit all documents which confirm ownership rights, contracts, court decisions (if an argument has already been adjudicated) and develop an optimal advocacy strategy which then can be used by our client in further deals.

Our lawyers provide support in disputes:

  • about land ownership rights recognition and their confirmation;
  • about the ownership and use of land;
  • about rented pieces of land;
  • about land privatization and buying/selling of land.

Also our lawyers are experienced in counteraction against raider attacks, denationalization, and they can help in prevention of such problems.

Disputes about the real estate and construction sites

Our firm's attorneys can provide you with effective defense of your rights in the area of real estate and construction in courts of all levels on the following categories of cases:

  • recognition of ownership rights for real estate objects, including legally unauthorized premises;
  • disputes about the ownership and use of real estate facilities, including unfinished buildings;
  • disputes about the rent contracts for buildings, construction objects etc.;
  • disputes about construction sub-contracts;
  • disputes about investment contracts or investment shares of the construction of real estate objects;
  • appeals for actions (or their absence) of a public institutions or local community management bodies.

Our experience in this area makes it easy for you to take necessary legal actions or appeal to a court the case of a contract breaching by the contractors. You can also legally denounce the contract, claim the debt, compensation for losses caused by the actions of a contractor and also enforce the court sentence.

Corporate disputes

Our company’s lawyers provide legal support in resolving all types of corporate disputes. Those include:

  • Disputes about invalidity of decisions adopted by shareholders meetings and directors committee;
  • Disputes on the holding of shareholders meetings;
  • Disputes about companies’ big comtracts;
  • Challenging deals leading to the withdrawal of company assets;
  • Advocacy of minor shareholders (counteractions for shares takeover and ousting from executive bodies management);
  • Deals on losses claims to committees of directors, executive board of ventures etc;
  • Disputes about government registration of legal entities, setting and reorganization of associations;

We also provide advocacy for commercial ventures and financial enterprises in cases of hostile takeovers.

Resolutions in taxation disputes

Our company’s experts are ready to provide assistance to businessmen for tax audits, to claim back the overpaid taxes, as well in disputes with tax authorities in supervising establishments.

Handling disputes with the customs authorities

Our company’s specialists are ready to provide assistance to businessmen to claim back the overpaid custom taxes or other custom payments, as well in disputes with custom authorities in supervising establishments

Court cases support

Carrying out court sentences are currently one of the most problematic issues in the legal practice. The parties often refuse to obey the court decisions and implementations of court rulings can take a long time. The reason for that is usually the client’s ignorance of the executive procedures, their rights and responsibilities in the process, etc. Our professional lawyers can help to implement your victory in court.

International commercial arbitrage under Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine

Our specialists represent the interests of clients at the International commercial arbitrage in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine, which is an effective tool for resolving conflicts about international contracts and legal disputes.

The rulings of International commercial arbitrage in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine are final and become subject to appeal only in exceptional cases. Furthermore, the rulings of the court, as mentioned above, can be executed forcibly either on the territory of Ukraine or abroad.

One of the major conditions for litigation at the International commercial arbitrage in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine is an arbitration agreement to hand over of the uprising disputes to the International commercial arbitrage in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine.

Complying with that requirement, our experts provide services to make arbitration agreements or arbitration notifications which go directly into the text of an international economic contract (with the exception of direct acting proxy in a court).

Our company has successful experience of providing legal support to the forcible enforcement to rulings of the International commercial arbitrage in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine either on the territory of Ukraine or abroad.

Participation in criminal process