Banking & Finance

Same high-quality advice on simple deals or “first-of-a-kind” transactions

The firm’s banking and finance team has a strong track record of managing all types of financing, which allows us to provide both quick but high-quality advice on simple deals and to tailor “first-of-a-kind” or unconventional legal structures for complex transactions.

Our experience covers:

• General bank and corporate lending
• Secured finance involving all types of collateral (including equipment, shares, real estate, receivables, bank accounts)
• Project finance
• Borrowing base financing
• IFI financing
• ECA-backed financing
• Financing involving government and public-sector entities

Our banking and finance team is also regularly involved in distressed debt and secondary market trading, advising international and local banks, hedge funds, and factoring companies and other market participants on Ukrainian legal aspects of individual and portfolio loan trades.

Being at the forefront of the technology that’s changing the global economy, we help shape regulatory change to innovative finance solutions.

Our banking and finance clients operate in diverse industries, including agriculture, automotive, aviation, chemicals, financial institutions, food & beverages, hospitality & entertainment, infrastructure & transportation, mining & metals, oil & gas, public sector, real estate & construction, renewable energy, retail, telecommunications, media & technology.

Sayenko Kharenko is trusted advisor to all major investment banks (including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley); domestic and international banks (Barclays, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING Bank, Oschadbank, PrivatBank, UBS, Ukreximbank).