At Baker McKenzie, Kyiv Office, lead partner Serhiy Piontkovsky has a long track record in privatisation projects in the power, steel, mining and industrial sectors, and is a key source of regulatory advice for domestic and international energy clients. He recently assisted with the privatisation of a majority stake in one of Ukraine’s largest power-generation companies. Emerging partner talent Andrii Moskalyk focuses primarily on energy infrastructure projects, PPPs, corporate and regulatory matters, and M&A transactions.

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Key clients

  • Bayerische Landesbank
  • State Property Fund and KPMG
  • Aspect Holdings
  • United Mining Chemical Company

Work highlights

  • Advising a Czech energy company EPH and its subsidiary Slovak company NAFTA a.s. in relation to two separate production sharing projects relating to Okhtyrska and Hrunivska blocks in North-Eastern Ukraine.
  • Advising Bayerische Landesbank with respect to financing of the construction of the 1st and the 2nd Stage of a 200 MW wind power plant in Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, with Primorskaya-1 and Primorskaya-2 Wind Electric Plants (members of the DTEK Renewables group) as borrowers.
  • Advising the State Property Fund of Ukraine on privatisation of 78.289% of shares in Centrenergo, a Ukrainian power-generation company.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Serhiy Piontkovsky

Other key lawyers

Andrii Moskalyk