General info
Valentyna Hvozd focuses on antitrust and competition matters. She also practices corporate law, M&A, privatization, and intellectual property law.
Ms Hvozd regularly advises clients on a wide range of antitrust law matters, including merger control (mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures), cartels, abuse of dominance, antitrust investigations and advice, distribution agreements, and unfair competition before the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. She has extensive experience advising multinational and domestic clients on the most complex and high-profile cases requiring profound knowledge and an innovative approach to meet the client’s expectations. Valentyna has been involved in advising all Magic Circle law firms. Her work highlights have included representations of:
- AbbVie Inc. in its acquisition of Shire plc (USD 54.7 billion)
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Company in its acquisition of WILD Flavors GmbH and WILD Dairy Ingredients GmbH (EUR 2.2 billion)
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in its acquisition of Duracell business from The Procter & Gamble Company (USD 4.7 billion)
- Berkshire Hathaway in its acquisition of Precision Castparts (USD 37.2 billion)
- China National Chemical Corporation in its acquisition of Pirelli & C. S.p.A. (EUR 7.1 billion)
- Cinven and Bain Capital in their acquisition of Stada (EUR 4.1 billion)
- Concerted practices clearance for MTIBU re new system for claims settlement
- Dell in its acquisition of EMC (USD 67 billion)
- Diebold in its acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf
- Konecranes in its acquisition of Terex business
- Merck KGaA in its acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (USD 17 billion)
- PartnerRe Ltd. and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited in their merger (USD 11 billion)
- One Equity Partners in its acquisition of Duran Group Holding GmbH (USD 93 million)
- Perrigo Company in its acquisition of Omega Pharma Invest NV (EUR 3.6 billion)
- Royal Dutch Shell in its acquisition of BG Group (GBP 47 billion)
- Solvay S.A. in its acquisition of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company assets
- Solvay SA in its acquisition of Cytec (USD 5.5 billion)
- Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot in their merger into the new corporation called Stellantis
