Energy
Today, the energy industry is not merely a technical or economic domain – it is a vital element of Ukraine’s national strategy for survival, recovery, and long-term integration into the European energy market.
Koziakov & Partners proudly provides comprehensive legal support to both international and domestic operators across all segments of the energy sector in Ukraine, including traditional and renewable energy. We advise clients involved in the exploration, production, and distribution of conventional energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal, as well as those engaged in the rapidly growing fields of solar, wind, biomass, and hydroelectric power. With deep industry knowledge and a nuanced understanding of Ukraine’s regulatory landscape, our team assists in navigating the complex legal, contractual, and compliance matters that shape the energy market.
Read more about usOur Services in the Energy Sector
We offer a full suite of legal services to energy companies, investors, and industry stakeholders, including:
- Corporate structuring, restructurings, and holding-level governance support.
- Competition and merger-control strategy, AMCU filings, and compliance audits.
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Renewables and green tariff advisory, regulatory assessments, and risk mapping.
- M&A and investment support, due diligence, and transaction implementation.
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Contracting support for project execution.
- Dispute strategy and representation in Ukrainian courts and arbitration where relevant.
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Asset transfers, corporate clean-ups, and implementation support for group reorganisations.
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
We advise companies in this sphere on various matters, including:
Corporate restructuring and documentation to strengthen capacity to mobilize resources for CJSC “The Municipal Energy Service Company in the City of Rivne” (“ESCO-Rivne”).
Legal due diligence of an energy holding’s corporate structure and potential investment and acquisition targets, including identification of competition-law risks and recommendations to remedy issues.
Preparing recommendations and restructuring schemes for an existing corporate structure of one of the largest Ukrainian energy holdings; supporting transactions implementing the restructuring.
- Advising on the transfer of companies’ assets to an energy holding structure (including property assets) and providing practical legal assistance to implement asset transfers under management decisions.
Representing a seller in a landmark renewable-energy transaction: acquisition of Sivashenergoprom LLC by Norwegian company NBT AS.
Advising a South Korean company on the application of the green tariff in Ukraine, potential legislative changes, and currency risk in feed-in-tariff matters.
Advising European wind and solar companies on green-tariff functioning and factors that may affect revision of such preferences.
Preparing filings and obtaining AMCU merger clearances for establishing a new energy holding structure.
Obtaining additional AMCU clearances to rectify competition-law deficiencies for an energy holding group.
- Defending the State of Ukraine in an EUR 70 million investment arbitration claim filed by Belgian investor SREW N.V. in the renewable energy sector.
- Representing Subsidiary Company “Gaz Ukraine” of NJSC “Naftogaz” in Ukrainian economic courts (including disputes “Gaz Ukraine” v Donetskoblenergo and “Gaz Ukraine” v Kharkov TPS-5).
- 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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