Retail & Distribution
Retail and distribution in Ukraine is fast-moving and operationally complex: success depends on getting commercial structuring, real estate footprint, supply and distribution contracts, compliance, and brand protection right – often under tight timelines and with high execution risk.
Koziakov & Partners advises consumer goods companies, retailers, distributors and investors on market entry and expansion, retail real estate projects, corporate structuring, regulatory and competition issues, and dispute resolution – helping clients scale operations, protect value, and stay compliant across the full commercial cycle
Read more about usOur Services in the Retail & Distribution Sector
We provide comprehensive legal support, including:
- Market entry, corporate structuring, governance and day-to-day corporate advisory
- Distribution, supply, franchising and commercial contracting (including risk allocation and compliance)
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Retail real estate: due diligence, acquisition or lease negotiations, construction and fit-out support
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Competition law: AMCU approvals, compliance, unfair competition risk
- IP and brand protection
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Employment and HR support for operational roll-outs and restructuring
- Dispute resolution and enforcement strategy
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
Our lawyers have advised leading retail, consumer goods, and distribution businesses on a broad range of complex, high-stakes matters, including:
Corporate-law advisory to major Ukrainian and international companies, including DELTA SPORT, Videoservice Ukraine, Henkell & Söhnlein, and others.
Support for international manufacturers and groups whose products are sold through consumer channels in Ukraine (including Samsung Electronics and Suzhou Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics Overseas B.V., Lenovo, TP-LINK Technologies Co. and others).
Advising on McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. investment projects for the construction and operation of restaurants, including negotiations with lessors/sellers, title due diligence, structuring, contracting and state registration of real estate.
Advising on Khreschatyk Plaza business center (real estate negotiations, due diligence, structuring and transaction support).
Legal support for transactions involving real estate acquisitions for development of the MEGAMARKET supermarket chain.
Advising AVON Cosmetics Ukraine on legal aspects of business activity in Ukraine, including construction and operation of warehouse and office premises in multiple cities.
- Negotiations, drafting and supervision support for the construction of shopping centers in Ukraine.
Acquisition of a 100% participatory interest in Ukrainian Commercial Real Estate Ltd. (retail entertainment centers).
Preparing documents for Henkell & Söhnlein (Vienna) and obtaining AMCU approval to purchase shares in CJSC “Kyiv Champagne Factory”.
Advising on the development of a chain of restaurants “Shvydko”.
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