Corporate Lawyer

A corporate lawyer handles the relationship between a company and its owners: who owns what, how decisions are made, how a share is sold, how a member exits and who runs the company. We advise Ukrainian LLCs and their owners, including foreign shareholders: charters and shareholders’ agreements, members’ meeting resolutions, share deals, director changes, reorganisation and due diligence before an acquisition. We work per project or on a monthly retainer, and handle corporate disputes when a conflict has already arisen.

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How the work goes

1. Review — the lawyer reads the constitutional documents and register data and sets out the options.
2. Plan and fee — documents, sequence, timing and fee agreed before work starts.
3. Documents — charter, shareholders’ agreement, resolutions, share deal documents.
4. Signing and filing — signing with a qualified e-signature or notarisation where the law requires it, and filing with the state registrar.

What you receive

• A charter and shareholders’ agreement that reflect the owners’ real arrangements.
• Valid members’ resolutions.
• Registered changes: members, shares, director, capital.
• A written risk report where you buy a share or a business.

Where people usually go wrong

• Founders rely on oral arrangements. A shareholders’ agreement must be in writing or it is void.
• A share is sold to a third party without notifying the other members, who have a pre-emption right.
• A member with under 50% exits without the others’ consent and the company must pay out the share’s value.
• The director is ‘dismissed’ by an order: by law the director’s powers end only when a new director or an acting director is elected.
• The charter still refers to the Commercial Code, which ceased to be in force on 28 August 2025.

Why hand it to a team. Corporate mistakes surface when the owners have already fallen out or a buyer appears. A lawyer sets the rules in advance and is accountable for the agreed scope under the contract.

Typical situations we handle

Partners launch a joint company — charter and shareholders’ agreement with voting, exit and buy-out rules.

A partner exits — share valuation, payout, documents and registration.

An investor comes in — capital increase by an additional contribution and new governance rules.

Foreign shareholder — ownership structure and beneficial owner disclosure, remote signing.

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What usually comes next

• charter amendments — new charter or switch to the model charter
• partnership agreement — joint business without a new company
• contract drafting — share purchase, shareholder loans, director services
• legal support on a monthly retainer — corporate matters within a monthly package
• change of director — members’ decision and register filing
• corporate disputes — when negotiation fails and court is needed

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