[...]... and law firms in Ukraine on Ukrainian law firms) The firm has a general corporate and litigation practice, and is particularly known for major transactions that it has handled in the real estate, construction, energy and financial sectors, among other areas It has always had a leading tax planning department and has one of the most successful Ukrainian litigation practices Its clients include major... multinational companies and other investors in Ukraine, as well as leading global law firms BC Toms & Co was founded by B C Toms, who was previously a partner of a major multinational law firm, is a graduate of Yale Law School (JD, 1975; editor of the Yale Law Journal), and studied law at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (Law Tripos I, 1972–73) His undergraduate studies were at Washington and... companies, as well as innovative technology companies of the transportation industry, that target local customers and that have potential to become market leaders For seven years, Irina Strizhak worked as a consultant and team leader on the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) technical assistance projects: the USAID-funded Small-Scale Privatization Project and the Unfinished Construction Privatization... now has a 20–40 per cent deficit in per capita housing space when compared to Bucharest, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava and Warsaw, which had more rapid growth in the 1990s As per capita incomes in Ukraine increase, these disparities should narrow, although at current rates, it will take housing in Kyiv ten years to catch up with the per capita housing available in Prague, so there should be great opportunity... participate in defining, developing, discussing and resolving issues affecting the operations of their businesses and organizations in Ukraine AmCham advocates free enterprise, and encourages reform aimed at the development of an equitable and transparent business environment in Ukraine For more information about AmCham and its activities, please visit the AmCham website at www.amcham.ua BC Toms &. .. largest and most prominent law firms in Ukraine In 1991, it was the first Western law firm to establish an office in Ukraine, and its Kyiv office is ranked as one of the leading Ukrainian law firms by the European Legal 500, the principal European legal directory, and by Yuridicheskaya Practica (the leading Ukrainian law newspaper that conducts an annual survey of opinion of the leading companies and... Map 1: Major rail and road networks in Ukraine Map 2: National boundaries and neighbouring states Map 3: Kiev and surrounding districts Introduction Dr Marat Terterov The 13 years that Ukraine has spent as a sovereign state, independent of the Soviet Union, or for that matter of Poland, AustriaHungary and other political powers that have stymied the country’s autonomy, have been accompanied by a mixed... representation in Ukraine since 1992 and has been a wholly owned Ukrainian legal entity since 1997 Our predominantly Ukrainian staff number in excess of 100, with foreign national staff from the USA, the UK, the Netherlands and Albania KPMG’s objective in Ukraine is to use KPMG’s global intellectual capital with the experience of Ukrainian professionals to assist leading Ukrainian companies and KPMG’s... In March 1998, the subsidiary bank, Raiffeisenbank Ukraine, was established RBUA is a fully-licensed commercial bank with the right to offer to its corporate and individual clients a full range of banking products At present, RBUA is in the top ten of Ukrainian banks in terms of assets, capital and loan portfolio At the time of writing, Mykhaylo Kuzmin was the Senior Risk Management Expert at Raiffeisenbank... many abundant raw materials, and a pro -business government seeking to attract value added investment all reflect the clear opportunities that this country offers In this volume, now in its third edition, we have sought to bring together impressions of Ukrainian business from a great diversity of international and Ukrainian academics, lawyers, accountants, bankers, businessmen, consultants, research institutes . Ukrainian Tax Law 243 Bate C Toms, Zoya Mylovanova and Igor Posypayko, BC Toms & Co 3.4 Banking and Exchange Control Regulation 268 Bate C Toms and Zoya Mylovanova, BC Toms & Co 3.5 Ukrainian. Toms, Taras Dumych and Svitlana Kheda, BC Toms and Co 4.2 Ukrainian Land Law 308 Bate C Toms and Taras Dumych, BC Toms & Co 4.3 Dispute Resolution: Arbitration in Ukraine 317 Bate C Toms and Dmytro. practice, and is particularly known for major transactions that it has handled in the real estate, construction, energy and financial sectors, among other areas. It has always had a leading tax planning