LIONS INTERNATIONAL
Legal Solutions Across Borders — From Ukraine to the World
Sectors
Cross-Border Trade
We provide legal solutions to ensure the reliability of cross-border operations, including the import and export of goods and services, licensing, franchising, investment, business establishment or acquisition, and the creation of joint ventures. Our team develops and supports both one-off commercial transactions and long-term projects in their place of implementation. We handle international disputes and help safeguard our clients’ legal interests by mitigating risks.
Business & Competition
We advise on compliance with competition laws of the EU, the UK, and Ukraine, including matters of antitrust, merger control, and unfair practices. Our team conducts risk assessments and represents clients before regulators. Our services also cover strategic planning, analysis of case law, and review of prior regulatory decisions.
Sale of Goods
We provide legal support in drafting and implementing contracts of sale both in Ukraine and abroad. Our primary focus is on ensuring the validity of agreements, clarity and predictability of contractual terms, and minimizing risks for our clients. We prevent disputes at the negotiation stage and throughout contractual relations. In addition, we offer legal risk insurance and coverage of potential litigation costs.
Real Estate
We deliver comprehensive legal support on all matters related to real estate transactions and property management. Our services include drafting and reviewing contracts (lease, sale and purchase, property management, trust ownership, use rights, lifetime maintenance, etc.), as well as handling disputes concerning real estate and property rights.
Distribution
We assist in drafting and reviewing distribution agreements tailored to your commercial strategy. Our advice covers territorial rights, exclusivity clauses, minimum purchase obligations, price controls, and liability limitations—ensuring effective risk management and alignment of interests between producers and distributors.
Damages & Compensation
We handle claims for damages arising from project implementation, breach of contract, counterparties’ failure to perform obligations, or lack of preventive measures. We also take on cases involving claims for lost profits (unrealized income) or damages caused by criminal proceedings, asset seizures, and related issues.
Company - Consumer
Failure to comply with EU, UK, and Ukrainian consumer protection laws in the course of business operations can result in significant fines, economic and reputational losses, or even project termination. Our goal is to provide preventive legal advice to avoid such consequences, as well as effective solutions for resolving ongoing consumer disputes.
State and Regulation
Economic activity, depending on its scope and sector, often requires compliance with state-imposed requirements. Where such requirements are legitimate, we provide advisory services and ensure proper compliance. In cases of unlawful demands by the state, we offer legal protection through pre-trial and judicial remedies, including the annulment of state measures (such as sanctions, taxes, or regulatory demands).
Agency Relations
We provide legal support in drafting and negotiating agency agreements across the EU, the UK, and Ukraine. Our services cover structuring relationships with agents, defining clear scopes of authority, regulating commission entitlements, and minimizing legal risks related to contract termination, exclusivity, and cross-border operations.
Services
We advise on the conclusion and termination of service contracts in Ukraine and internationally, including those involving foreign counterparties. Our expertise covers defining the scope of services, service standards and quality, performance obligations, and payment terms. Our goal is to ensure legal certainty and align contractual arrangements with the client’s commercial objectives.
Banking & Finance
We provide legal support in structuring, executing, and terminating loan agreements, credit facilities, mortgages, guarantees, suretyships, pledges, debt restructuring, as well as ensuring the practical implementation of transactions, settlements, and performance of obligations.
Corporate Relations
We advise on building effective corporate governance systems. Our services include advising boards of directors and shareholders on their rights and duties, resolving governance-related conflicts, and ensuring regulatory compliance. We also represent clients in corporate disputes to safeguard the interests of shareholders and the company.
Investment Protection
We advise clients at the decision-making stage of an investment project, asset acquisition, or property purchase by preparing agreements, conducting risk assessments, and designing safeguards against adverse outcomes. During project implementation, we monitor risks to prevent potential investment losses.
Criminal Proceedings
We have extensive experience in assisting clients in matters arising from criminal investigations. Whether proceedings concern a company, its executives, management, or employees, we design a comprehensive defense strategy and provide full legal support in dealings with law enforcement authorities and courts.
Actions
Contracts
We draft tailored contracts that ensure security for our Clients and support the achievement of their business objectives. We review contracts prepared by third-party advisors or counterparties and provide legal assistance with enforcement, termination, invalidation, amendments, recovery of payments, and compensation for damages.
Legal Opinions
We provide independent legal opinions (“Second Opinion”) on complex legal issues. The Client may submit up to 500 pages of documentation prepared by other legal advisors, counterparties, or authorities (including litigation files or pre-litigation correspondence). Our opinion delivers an objective assessment of the issue, verification of the chosen strategy, analysis of actions already taken, and recommendations for further steps, including guidance on court proceedings. The service delivery timeframe for a “Second Opinion” is from 7 days.
Representation
On the basis of a power of attorney, we represent Clients in dealings with government authorities, companies, individuals, commercial counterparties, shareholders, and opponents in conflicts. The scope of authority is defined by agreement, and all instructions are executed consistently and exclusively in the Client’s best interests.
Litigation
We assist Clients in preventing and resolving disputes. At the pre-trial stage, we assess risks, develop a defense strategy, and take measures for settlement. If resolution cannot be achieved amicably, we provide full-scale representation before all courts in Ukraine as well as foreign jurisdictions. Our focus is on minimizing the Client’s resources spent on disputes and delivering practical, effective solutions aligned with long-term goals.
Consulting
We provide oral and written legal consultations on legislative requirements and conflict resolution in various areas. Our goal is to anticipate legal and financial consequences, prevent violations of the Client’s rights and interests, strengthen legal positions in a timely manner, and assess the potential for dispute resolution.
Legal Audit (Due Diligence)
We conduct comprehensive legal audits (Due Diligence) to identify risks associated with actions that may have legal or financial consequences for the Client. This service is typically engaged at the decision-making stage of entering into contracts, acquiring shares in a company’s capital, granting or receiving loans, managing funds, or purchasing/obtaining control over an existing business. We perform thorough checks of counterparties, review the history and legal status of property, individuals, and companies, and provide risk assessments.
Legal Expertise
We arrange legal-scientific expertise on Ukrainian and foreign law in cooperation with our specialists and leading academic institutions in Ukraine. Such expertise has official significance; expert opinions may be submitted to state authorities, national courts, and foreign courts to support the Client’s position or to interpret legal regulation.
Arbitration
We represent Clients in cross-border commercial and investment disputes under the rules of leading arbitral institutions. Our services cover the full arbitration cycle: drafting arbitration clauses, filing claims, ensuring delivery of correspondence to counterparties, managing proceedings, preparing and submitting statements of case and applications, obtaining arbitral awards, and enforcing them in foreign jurisdictions.
Get in touch
We offer a free 3-hour legal services package for our international clients, helping them gain a basic understanding of the Ukrainian market and regulatory landscape.