12.08.2008. Asters has acted as Ukrainian counsel to Swedbank AB in connection with establishing by its Ukrainian subsidiaries OJSC Swedbank (formerly TAS-Kommerzbank) and CJSC Swedbank Invest (formerly TAS-Investbank) of the first Ukrainian banking holding group Swedbank Finance.
Asters’ team assisting Swedbank in drafting and negotiating all necessary documents, obtaining regulatory approvals and registration of Swedbank Finance with the National Bank of Ukraine, was led by partners Svitlana Poroschuk and Armen Khachaturyan and included associates Yevgen Porada, Leonid Antonenko and Yuriy Pavlyshynets. The merger clearance was handled by associate Tetyana Buchko supervised by partner Igor Svechkar.
Asters is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian law firm founded in 1995 as Shevchenko Didkovskiy & Partners. The firm is among the most recommended law firms for Ukraine according to reputable international legal directories The Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, and Ukraine’s legal market research publications. A list of the firm’s clients includes major international corporations, such as Beiersdorf AG, Coca-Cola, Damen Shipyards Group, News Corp., Nissan Motor, Nokia Corporation, Philip Morris, Telenor ASA, Toshiba Corporation, and the world’s leading financial institutions Barclays Capital, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, EBRD, IFC, ING Bank, Standard Bank and Swedbank AB.
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