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Ukraine: Investment and Reconstruction

Overview

Ukraine's reconstruction is a decade-long, half-trillion-dollar effort, undertaken in one of Europe's most demanding legal environments.

Structuring entry into the Ukrainian market for Swiss, UK, US and European companies, and supporting Ukrainian companies on their way to Western markets, partners and financing.

Isak Legal advises Swiss, UK, US and European companies on structuring their entry into the Ukrainian market: investment and joint-venture structuring, participation in donor-funded and internationally financed projects, from the Ukraine Facility to SECO's calls, compliance frameworks including anti-corruption, sanctions and export controls, and risk allocation, war-risk cover and guarantees in a demanding environment. We also advise in the other direction: Ukrainian companies building a European presence, raising Western financing under Ukraine's currency rules, contracting with international partners and meeting the compliance expectations of EU, UK, US and Swiss counterparties.

We work alongside established Ukrainian law firms, combining international-firm standards with local execution on the ground; all Ukrainian-law matters are handled by local partners.

INTO UKRAINE Investment and JV structuring Donor-funded and financed projects War-risk cover and guarantees Sanctions, integrity and bank gates EU, UK, US and Swiss companies ONE COMPLIANCE CORE, BOTH WAYS with established Ukrainian law firms on the ground OUT OF UKRAINE European entities and platforms Funding routes and Western financing Bank onboarding files prepared for scrutiny Counterparty compliance expectations Ukrainian companies and founders The corridor runs both ways: the evidence file is largely the same in both directions; the legal analysis on it follows each regime.

Both directions of the corridor, one compliance core.

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How we help

Investment and structuring

  • Investment and joint-venture structures for reconstruction-era projects
  • Risk allocation and contract architecture built for the environment
  • Local-entity requirements planned in from the start, with Ukrainian counsel

Funding and guarantees

  • Access strategy for EU and Swiss programmes and UK export support, from the Ukraine Facility to SECO's calls and UKEF cover
  • Public war-risk cover: MIGA guarantees, EBRD-backed war-risk reinsurance and ECA cover, combined correctly
  • Bid and application files prepared for funder scrutiny, with the follow-up questions anticipated

The compliance gates

  • Sanctions and export-control frameworks across the EU, US, UK and Swiss regimes
  • Funder integrity requirements: debarment, self-declarations, audit readiness
  • One evidence file, built to the most demanding requirement it will meet, with the regime-specific analysis and the funder and bank supplements layered on it

Out of Ukraine

  • European entity and platform design, in the order that works
  • Funding-route analysis under the current currency rules, with Ukrainian counsel
  • Bank onboarding files and counterparty compliance expectations, prepared once and kept current

Who we act for

Western strategics and investors

Industrial, infrastructure and technology companies from the EU, UK, US and Switzerland weighing reconstruction-era entry: structure, funding, insurance and the compliance file, sequenced before commitments are made.

Funded-project participants

Companies applying under SECO's calls, seeking financing backed by the Ukraine Investment Framework (UIF) through the implementing banks, or bidding for donor-funded contracts, where eligibility is tested under each route's own rules, entity structure among them, and the compliance posture is assessed as part of the application.

Ukrainian companies and founders

Businesses building their European presence: the tax and structure analysis first, the funding route second, the substance third, and the bank file built once, to the most demanding requirement it will meet, and maintained.

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