Eurolawyer Club

Corporate law

TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE

Proposals regarding provision of legal services of preventive protection and protection from hostile enterprises takeovers

Preventive protection:

  • Due Diligence;

  • Analysis of local legal acts of an enterprise;

  • Assistance of legally significant actions of governing bodies of an enterprise;

  • Development of optimal scheme of enterprise operation (corporatisation, structuring);

  • Elimination of revealed violations (by justice method with the help of alteration, by means of adjustment and systematization of internal documents);

  • Legalization of enterprise’s governing bodies decisions;

  • Analysis of operation and reliability of the registrar who conducts the register system of the inscribed securities owners of emitter;

  • Assistance of the assignation of the register system of the inscribed securities owners of emitter from one registrar to another;

  • Settling of matters in controversy with problem shareholders/participants, emitters, professional stock market participants;

Protection from hostile takeover (RAIDER ATTACK), protection of property right:

Analytics:

  • Establishment of data regarding legal and natural persons who are organizing and implementing actions of hostile enterprise takeover;

  • Establishment of the main aim and/or goal of hostile enterprise takeover;

  • Development of complex strategy of enterprise’s protection from hostile takeover.

Judicial protection:

  • Legal assistance of existing judicial cases and initiation of necessary judicial proceedings with emitters, shareholders, professional stock market participants with possible involvement of state bodies and agencies as third persons;

  • Development of judicial protection line;

  • Realization of preventive judicial measures of ensuring, preventive measures etc.;

  • Judicial assistance of the proceeding of court decisions execution;

  • Protection of natural persons in case of criminal cases connected with hostile enterprise’s takeover opened against them;

  • Appealing of actions of officials and state bodies during requested inspection conducting.

Power line:

  • Initiating of criminal cases opening in case of crime commitment by the persons who conduct hostile enterprise’s takeover;

  • Initiating of inspections conducting regarding legality of the actions of persons who conduct hostile enterprise’s takeover;

  • Protection of private persons;

  • Protection of hostile takeover objects, property, enterprise’s management, enterprise’s shareholders, third parties who participate in the case.

Judicial protection:

  • Enterprises, shareholders during takeover;

  • Agreements which are concluded by the enterprise, shareholders, professional stock market participants;

  • Enterprise’s management.

Protection of the register system of inscribed securities owners against illegal overtake:

  • Judicial assistance of the register system of inscribed securities owners of emitter transfer from one registrar to another;

  • Acquisition of control over the register system of inscribed securities owners of emitter in case control has been lost;

  • Acknowledgement of the register system of inscribed securities owners of emitter is being lost (in case of grounds availability);

  • Renewal of the register system of inscribed securities owners of emitter in case it had been acknowledged as lost one;

  • Challenging against illegal amendments in the register system of inscribed securities owners of emitter;

  • Initiating of emitter’s stocks turnover and clearing termination (in case of need).

Organization, conducting and control of general meetings of shareholders:

  • Organization and conducting of general meetings of shareholders;

  • Control of general shareholders’ meeting conduction with possible involvement of employees of the Securities and Stock Market State Commission.

PR-protection:

  • Cooperation with mass media and information agencies;

  • Media support.

Relation with state bodies:

  • With subject committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;

  • Ministry of Justice of Ukraine;

  • Ministry of Home Affairs of Ukraine;

  • Securities and Stock Market State Commission;

  • Inter-departmental Committee of counter-acting to illegal acquisition and takeover of enterprises;

  • Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.

Mediation:

  • Alternative dispute settlement;

  • Initiating/assistance/participation in negotiations;

  • Search for mutually beneficial consensus.

Investment:

  • Buying and selling of property and corporate rights;

  • Searching and/or involvement of investor;

  • Valuation of property, business, corporate rights.