Heavy Industry
Ukraine’s heavy industry – metallurgy, mining, machinery, chemicals and industrial manufacturing – operates in a legally complex environment shaped by export exposure, strategic regulation, privatization history, infrastructure dependencies, and heightened compliance and dispute risks. Transactions and projects in this sector require precise structuring, clean title, and a clear strategy for regulatory approvals and enforcement.
Koziakov & Partners supports industrial groups, investors and stakeholders on high-stakes matters across the full lifecycle of industrial assets – from acquisitions and restructuring to trade defense, regulatory proceedings, and complex disputes in Ukraine and abroad. We combine corporate, antitrust, international trade and dispute resolution capabilities to help clients protect value and execute decisions with confidence.
Read more about usOur Services in the Heavy Industry Sector
We provide comprehensive legal support to heavy-industry businesses and investors, including:
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M&A and asset acquisitions, corporate restructuring and holding-level governance
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Legal and tax due diligence for industrial assets and corporate groups
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Privatization-related transactions and strategic industrial assets
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Competition law strategy, AMCU filings, investigations and compliance
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Industrial projects and infrastructure support (contracting, permitting, execution risk)
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Dispute resolution: Ukrainian litigation, cross-border disputes, arbitration, enforcement and asset recovery
- Crisis response and high-stakes regulatory or investigative matters
Our Services in the Agriculture Sector
We offer a full suite of legal services to agricultural companies, investors, and industry stakeholders, including:
- Merger clearance, compliance audits, defense in investigations.
- Asset acquisitions, shareholder agreements, restructuring.
- Legal support for bank financing, syndicated loans, and private equity transactions.
- Anti-dumping defense, WTO compliance, export-import regulation.
- Representation in Ukrainian courts and major international arbitration forums.
- Land use, environmental permits, food safety, customs.
- Risk assessments, structuring, and defense in audits or investigations.
Representative Experience
For decades, we have advised major industrial groups, investors, and manufacturers on complex transactions and disputes, including:
Advising companies on asset consolidation and corporate restructuring.
Acquisition of a controlling stake in OJSC “Dnipropress”.
Acquisition of a controlling stake in OJSC “Leninska Kuznya”.
Consolidation of property of CJSC “Makiivskyi metallurgical industrial complex”.
Legal support to LLC “Ukrainian Aluminum” in implementing the Sale and Purchase Agreement for JSC “Mykolayiv Alumina Plant” (State Property Fund transaction).
Legal assistance to JSC “Mykolayiv Alumina Plant” regarding construction of terminals in the Dnipro-Bug commercial seaport.
Legal assistance, due diligence and structuring for acquisition of assets of OJSC “Crimea Titan” (industrial assets).
Legal assistance, due diligence, structuring and support for acquisition of assets of OJSC “Kharkov Tractor Plant” (industrial assets).
- Representing Dongbu Metal Co., Ltd. in a trade investigation concerning ferroalloys imports to Ukraine; the investigation was terminated without measures.
Representing Interpipe Ukraine LLC in Ukrainian courts and advising in challenges to tax and competition authority decisions (fines and related regulatory exposure).
Successfully defending a leading Ukrainian industrial group in public procurement disputes worth approximately USD 50 million, including a case resolved by the Supreme Court.
Preparing Ukrainian-law expert analysis on fair treatment issues for proceedings before the High Court of Justice (recipient was a transnational corporation headquartered in Switzerland).
- Legal support for the consolidation and restructuring of agricultural assets,
including antimonopoly approvals and compliance. - Representation of leading Ukrainian agribusiness holdings in transactions
involving asset restructuring and regulatory clearance. - Support in the acquisition of agricultural enterprises of the Amarant
Group, including antimonopoly aspects.
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