Hardly ever before the banking and finance sector has attracted so much public attention as nowadays. And now it is overwhelmingly important for us to remain professionals in terms of a number of opinions, specific terminology, regulatory documents and legislative initiatives.

Our experience in working with banks and financial institutions is a valuable asset in our understanding of internal structure of international and national banks and financial corporations that enables to analyse even the most complex and sophisticated situations within the shortest possible time limits, and produce innovative solutions.

AstapovLawyers’ services for Financial Institutions include:

• advising on trade/project finance and loan transactions;
• legal due diligence;
• consulting on the issues of default situations, providing legal assistance on debt restructuring transactions, assignment of receivables and payables;
• default enforcement;
• drafting syndicated loan agreements, structuring financial transactions;
• advising on international bond issues, including secured bonds, bank guarantees, issue of standby letters of credit and obtaining comfort letters;
• providing advice on regulatory matters of banking and financial operations;
• asset, debt and loan obligations restructuring;
• debt collection;
• improvement of financial performance and indexes;
• advising on debt refinancing;
• dispute resolution;
• consulting on the issues of distressed loans’ conversion in leasing products;
• creation of ‘reverse’ mortgage structures;
• providing legal advice on the issues of trade finance, generating collateral-backed structures;
• advising on project finance transactions;
• advising on corporate transformations: increase in charter capital, formation of holding companies, association structuring;
• obtaining permits, licenses and other clearances from the National Bank of Ukraine, Securities and Stock Market State Commission, State Commission for Regulation of Financial Services Markets of Ukraine, etc.

Among the major Financial Institutions we have been instructed by are - RAIFFEISEN ZENTRALBANK, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION (IFC), PROBUSINESSBANK, FINANCE AND CREDIT BANK, CESCI BANK, RODOVID BANK, PKO BP / KREDOBANK, and GAZPROMBANK.