Recent changes in corporate legislation have provided Ukrainian businesses with new legal instrument for regulating relations between business owners, which allows predicting a certain balance of rights and obligations between the partners, to additionally protect their interests as well as to stimulate the resolution of conflicts in a mutually acceptable way for all parties.  In the absence of judicial practice currently important issue is the correct drafting of shareholders’ agreement as well as its practical usage after signing.

EBA Management Development Centre team together with Pavlenko Legal Group invite you to participate in the Open Lecture: Shareholders’ Agreement – New Opportunities for Business.

Outcome: after visiting an open lecture every participant will understand the essence of the shareholders’ agreement instrument, substantiation of the necessity of signing the shareholders’ agreement, key issues to be reflected in the shareholders’ agreement.

Speaker: Denis Maistrenko, Partner, Pavlenko Legal Group, more than 10 years of experience, focuses on M&A / Corporate and Competition law, Intellectual Property.

Target audience: business owners, lawyers, heads of departments.

Topics under discussion:

• General issues of amending the corporate legislation of Ukraine in relation to shareholders’ agreements. History of shareholders’ agreements in Ukraine and abroad;
• New instruments of shareholders’ agreement. Advantages and disadvantages;
• Possibility of signing the shareholders’ agreement with a creditor;
• Process and stages of drafting the shareholders’ agreement (preparation for work on and drafting the shareholders’ agreement, involvement of business partners in the work on drafting the shareholders’ agreement);
• Need of understanding the business to which the shareholders agreement is signed by legal adviser and existence of the business development plan.