agriculture

Ukraine’s agro-industrial sector is one of the country’s most strategic and export-oriented industries. Agricultural businesses operate in a legally intensive environment shaped by land and asset structuring, competition rules, customs and trade regulation, food and environmental requirements, financing, and complex cross-border contractual relationships.

Koziakov & Partners advises agricultural producers, holdings, traders, and investors on high-stakes matters across the sector. We combine transactional and regulatory expertise with dispute resolution capability – supporting clients from corporate restructuring and merger control to trade defense, compliance, and arbitration – so that business decisions remain commercially effective and legally protected.

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.

Our contacts

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.

Our contacts

Our lawyers have advised major players in the agricultural industry on a broad range of complex and high-stakes matters, including:

Assets consolidation and corporate restructuring of agricultural-sector companies, including antimonopoly issues.
Legal support for a leading Ukrainian agricultural holding on asset restructuring, including antimonopoly issues.
Legal support for acquisition of assets of agricultural enterprises of the Amarant Group, including antimonopoly issues.

Representing Koninklijke Bunge B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) before the AMCU in connection with approval for establishing a joint venture with NUTRE SGPS, S.A. (Portugal).

Representing the US Poultry and Egg Export Council and the Brazilian Chicken Producers and Exporters Association in an anti-dumping investigation on chicken imports to Ukraine; the investigation was terminated without measures.
Representing “AE Nibulon” Ltd in AMCU proceedings concerning competition-law issues, including alleged abuse of dominance by SE “Delta–Lotzman”.
Representing one of the largest domestic agricultural producers in a dispute seeking annulment of an AMCU decision.

Representing one of the largest agricultural products producers in the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the VIAC (Austrian Chamber of Commerce).

Legal support on financial issues of Astarta-Kyiv Agro-Industrial Holding (banking and corporate financing).
Defense of executives of one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural holdings in criminal proceedings related to alleged tax evasion (pre-trial investigation by the State Tax Police).