LIONS INTERNATIONAL
Legal Solutions Across Borders — From Ukraine to the World
Sectors
Cross-Border Trade
We advise businesses on the legal aspects of international trade and cross-border commercial operations. Our services cover the import and export of goods, international supply chains, foreign investment, acquisitions, franchising, licensing, and joint ventures. We assist clients throughout the lifecycle of international projects, from structuring and negotiation to implementation and dispute resolution. Our objective is to help clients manage legal risks, navigate multiple jurisdictions, and achieve their goals.
Business & Competition
We advise clients on competition law and market regulation across the EU and Ukraine. Our services include antitrust compliance, merger control, abuse of dominance, unfair competition, and regulatory investigations. We assist businesses in assessing legal risks, developing compliance strategies, and responding to enforcement actions. We represent clients before competition authorities and courts, helping them protect their market position and pursue commercial opportunities.
Real Estate
We provide comprehensive legal support in relation to real estate transactions, development projects, and property management. Our services include acquisitions and disposals, lease agreements, ownership structures, easements, and development arrangements. We also assist clients in resolving disputes involving real estate, construction projects, and property rights. Our objective is to protect investments, reduce transactional risk, and ensure that property-related projects proceed efficiently.
Consumer Protection
Businesses operating in consumer markets must comply with consumer protection, advertising, and fair trading regulations. We advise clients on compliance strategies, consumer-facing contracts, marketing practices, and regulatory requirements. Our services are designed to help businesses reduce the risk of investigations, financial penalties, and reputational damage. We work proactively to ensure that commercial practices align with applicable legal standards and evolving regulatory expectations.
Sports Law
We advise sports clubs, athletes, agents, sponsors, and investors on a broad range of commercial and regulatory matters. Our services include player transfers, representation agreements, sponsorship arrangements, image rights, disciplinary proceedings, and contractual disputes. We represent clients before sporting bodies, arbitral tribunals, and courts. Our objective is to protect commercial interests, support professional careers, and help clients navigate the legal and regulatory framework of modern sport.
Industry Associations & Organisations
We advise professional associations, trade organisations, cultural institutions, sports federations, and industry bodies on governance, regulatory compliance, membership matters, commercial agreements, and disputes. Our services support organisations in managing legal risks while maintaining effective internal structures and decision-making processes. We also represent clients in investigations and contentious matters. Our objective is to help organisations operate efficiently, protect their interests, and achieve their strategic goals.
Representation of Ukrainian Clients
We advise and represent Ukrainian companies, investors, local authorities, public institutions, state-owned enterprises, professional associations, and industry organisations in matters involving foreign jurisdictions and international stakeholders. Our services include international transactions, foreign investment projects, international arbitration, commercial disputes, regulatory matters, institutional cooperation, and strategic cross-border initiatives.
Regulatory Compliance
Businesses operating in regulated sectors must comply with a wide range of legal and regulatory requirements. We advise clients on obtaining licences, permits, approvals, and regulatory clearances, as well as maintaining ongoing compliance. Where regulatory actions affect our clients’ interests, we provide strategic advice and representation before administrative authorities and courts. Our goal is to reduce regulatory risk, protect commercial interests, and ensure stable business operations.
Agency Relations
We advise principals, agents, and distributors on the structuring and operation of commercial agency relationships. Our services include drafting and negotiating agency agreements, defining authority and responsibilities, designing commission structures, and addressing exclusivity arrangements. We also assist with termination issues, post-termination rights, and cross-border agency networks. Our objective is to establish commercially effective relationships while reducing legal uncertainty and minimizing the risk of future disputes.
Banking & Finance
We advise lenders, borrowers, investors, and businesses on a broad range of banking and finance transactions. Our services include loan agreements, credit facilities, security arrangements, guarantees, mortgages, and debt restructuring. We assist clients in structuring, negotiating, implementing, and enforcing financial arrangements while addressing legal and commercial risks. Our objective is to facilitate reliable financing structures that support business growth and protect our clients’ financial interests.
Corporate Governance & Disputes
We advise shareholders, directors, executives, and companies on corporate governance, shareholder relations, and regulatory compliance. Our services include governance frameworks, directors’ duties, shareholder rights, internal investigations, and conflict resolution. We assist businesses in developing effective decision-making structures and managing governance-related risks. We represent clients in shareholder disputes and other corporate conflicts.
Investment Protection
We assist investors and businesses in identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal risks associated with investment projects and strategic acquisitions. Our services include transaction structuring, due diligence, contractual protections, and regulatory analysis. Throughout project implementation, we help clients safeguard investments and respond to emerging legal challenges. Our objective is to support informed decision-making and reduce the likelihood of disputes, losses, or unexpected regulatory obstacles.
Investigations & White-Collar Crime
We advise companies, directors, executives, and employees in matters involving criminal investigations, regulatory enforcement, and allegations of corporate misconduct. Our services include internal investigations, defence strategies, crisis management, and representation before public authorities and courts. We assist clients in responding to complex investigations while protecting legal rights, business operations, and reputational interests. Our objective is to manage risk effectively and achieve practical solutions in sensitive situations.
Talent Representation
We advise actors, performers, artists, influencers, authors, and other public figures on commercial, contractual, and reputational matters. Our services include representation agreements, endorsement arrangements, image rights, intellectual property protection, licensing, and dispute resolution. We assist clients in structuring commercial opportunities and protecting valuable personal brands. Our objective is to provide practical legal support that enables creative professionals to develop and safeguard their careers.
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.