Baker & McKenzie provides sophisticated legal advice to the world’s most dynamic global enterprises, and has done so for more than 50 years. With a network of more than 3,200 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers in 69 offices across 38 countries, we have the knowledge and resources to deliver the broad scope of quality services required to respond effectively to both international and local needs - consistently, with confidence and with sensitivity for cultural, social and legal differences.

The first foreign law firm to open an office in Ukraine, we currently assist over 350 multinational companies, financial institutions and major Ukrainian enterprises in their domestic and international operations. With the majority of our 46 professional staff trained in the United States or Great Britain, we are Ukrainian by training and international by know-how, experience and practice - a combination which has seen us regularly ranked as among the leading practices in Ukraine, and for our work in finance, corporate law, international capital markets projects, real estate and competition law in particular.

In close cooperation with our offices worldwide, we help our clients on all aspects of their business activities here, including: banking and finance, securities and capital markets, competition law, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, intellectual property, IT and telecommunications, labor and employment, natural resources, pharmaceuticals, real estate and construction, tax and customs, venture capital.

Our recent projects in capital markets area include the following two completed IPOs: AIM listing of XXI Century Investments, one of the leading Ukrainian real estate and property developers, and IPO of Astarta-Kyiv, Ukraine’s largest sugar producer, on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Currently we are also working with four Ukrainian companies on their IPOs and pre-IPO restructurings.