AMBER Law Company

AMBER Law Company is a multi-function team of experts, each possessing significant practical experience in various fields of law and business. Joint efforts of all team members, as well as the ability to analyze all matters from multiple viewpoints, ensures the most efficient and cost-saving case solutions.

Established in 2013 and based in Kyiv, AMBER is a rapidly developing law firm with its affiliates in Chernivtsi (Ukraine), Tel-Aviv (Israel) and Limassol (Cyprus). It renders a wide range of legal services offering innovative solutions to its clients, and it is always among the first to master cutting-edge technologies and up-to-date best practices. AMBER is particularly effective as an anti-crisis team in cases of emergency, when its clients require quick decision-making and high levels of responsibility. AMBER is always practicing a result-based approach. AMBER’s team also includes highly skilled criminal lawyers who handle defense in white collar crimes and economic crimes. The company primarily specializes in banking and finance, tax law, corporate law, compliance, commercial litigation, criminal law.

Banking and finance: There are Agreements of Finders executed between AMBER and several foreign banks providing that AMBER brings clients to the bank and verifies them in order to provide evidences that all taxes are duly paid in the country of their incorporation and/or conducting business. AMBER is constantly advising top managers of Ukrainian commercial banks on the proper implementing of compliance procedures and on financial monitoring-related matters. Lawyers of AMBER are also involved in credit-related disputes and litigations.

Tax: AMBER provides legal advice on tax-related matters on an everyday basis providing guidance as to correct implementation and interpretation of applicable acts, regulations, rules and administrative instructions. And furthermore, there are many similar VAT-related cases where fiscal authorities violate clients’ rights through blocking their tax notes’ registration, groundless challenge of their economic transactions’ legitimacy, accruing additional amounts of taxes and imposing financial penalties. AMBER’s clients also face illegal seizures of the so called VAT limits (the term invented by criminal elements and adopted by Ukrainian fiscal servants).

Corporate law: AMBER has vast experience in providing legal assistance in the area of corporate law and corporate disputes pursuant to the multi-level businesses with complex branched structure. Top corporate experts of the AMBER team have serious practices of protecting minor shareholders, handling conflicts between shareholders in legal entities incorporated in Ukraine and other jurisdictions.

Compliance: AMBER Law Company acts as external counsel for several Ukrainian and foreign banks. Since combating against illicit enrichment and money laundering is one of the main global development trends today having close attention to the end beneficiaries as a result, one of the current key practices of AMBER is providing legal support for development of protective instruments clearly structuring admissibility of the relevant financial transactions and protecting its clients from the possible penalties. Such instruments are also helpful for conflicts of interests, market abuse, the “Chinese Wall” approach (strict differentiation of powers), insider lists, watch lists and lists of restrictions, complaints processing and litigations, rules violation, etc.

Commercial litigation: AMBER’s team possesses significant practical experience in commercial litigation related to disputes arising from business transactions performed by its clients. It practices a client-focused approach based on achieving efficient and cost-saving solutions to complex commercial disputes in diverse industry sectors, including, in particular, disputes over complex contracts construction and/or implementation, ownership, recovery of debts for goods delivered/services rendered/works completed, corporate disputes between shareholders and/or partners, as well as other kinds of disputes in various commercial contexts.

White-Collar Crime

AMBER Law Company has extensive experience in defending companies and their executives/representatives at every stage of criminal proceedings, including criminal investigations, trials, appeals, cassation, and sentence execution. The firm also represents companies, officials, and representatives who have been victims of white-collar crimes.

Several of AMBER’s criminal defense attorneys have significant practical experience in the prosecution service, providing them with deep insight into how the system operates from within. This expertise allows them to anticipate legal complexities and respond effectively, ensuring clients are fully protected from any violations of their rights.

AMBER Law Company primarily focuses on providing legal assistance in white-collar and business-related crimes, offering strategic and comprehensive defense solutions tailored to each case.