Government Relations

Doing business in Ukraine often requires interaction with state and local authorities, especially in cases involving innovative transactions or strategic investment projects.

When selecting your advisors, you need a team with the right relationships, political intelligence and legal knowledge. In response, we offer an integrated team of American and Ukrainian GR specialists, including lobbyists, regulatory specialists, and communicators, all operating under a unified strategy and a single, transparent budget.

Our GR team members worked in the President’s Administration, the Kyiv City Administration, the Ukrainian Parliament, the National Bank of Ukraine and the Ministry of Infrastructure. Their collective experience and contacts allow us to navigate the complexities of government interactions and facilitate direct dialogue with decision-makers at all levels.

Our GR practice encompasses the full range of government relations services, including strategic problem-solving, legislative development, regulatory affairs, grassroots advocacy, and public outreach, all supported by our in-house media department.

We also formed a lobbying group and in-house media department, fully aligned with the GR and lobbying objectives, maximizing impact in both public and political arenas. Together, our GR team provides solid foundation for any investment project, regardless of complexity.

Government Relations

Working at the intersection of business, law and government, we design and implement effective communication strategies and create opportunities to make sure you are heard by the right people at the right time.

Develop and execute comprehensive strategies to achieve your business objectives at all levels of government in Ukraine.

Identify key decision-makers, understand their policies, priorities, and positions toward specific industries or projects.

Arrange high-level meetings with government officials and coordinate fact-finding missions for foreign investors.

Build and maintain strategic partnerships with local, regional, and national government authorities.

Secure necessary licenses and permits in highly regulated sectors, including infrastructure and construction.

Infrastructure Reconstruction and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)

In addition to providing advice on legal and regulatory aspects of PPPs, creating special purpose vehicles, and monitoring client compliance, we coordinate with state authorities to align private initiatives with national development priorities.

Identify and evaluate viable PPP and concession opportunities aligned with your business goals.

Manage tender processes and navigate government procurement procedures.

Establish communication channels with relevant authorities from the earliest stages of project planning.

Monitor government approval processes for development plans, national strategies, and priority project lists, particularly in the reconstruction sector.

Coordinate with regulatory and oversight bodies involved in project implementation.

Influence policy agendas through public mechanisms, participation in working groups, submission of expert opinions, and engagement upon official request.

Media

To get your message across in today’s saturated media marketplace, we use all available tools to influence and shape government decisions: traditional, social, and digital media. Our in-house media department is a full-service communications shop that tells our clients’ stories in compelling fashion – and gets results – across all media platforms.

Our media advisors, Mykola Veresen and Peter Dickinson, are top Ukrainian journalists with decades of experience, combination of skills and valuable relationships. They are uniquely qualified to shape a message and gain media attention in Ukraine and abroad.

Strategic Communications

Create a comprehensive social media strategy

Produce targeted content around calls-to-action

Prepare media releases and execute messaging campaigns

Analyze media and public sentiment to adjust strategies and assess risks

Social Media Advocacy

Social media campaigns, including posts, videos, and interactive content.

Manage media presence across traditional and digital platforms

Manage interactions with news organizations

Targeted outreach

Key contacts

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Market Entry and Investment Advisory

Successful market entry is a result of careful preparation, from analytics and project identification to corporate structuring and interacting with state authorities.

Corporate and M&A

Frishberg & Partners has been one of the top law firms specializing in M&A and corporate law for over 30 years.

Real Estate and Construction

We stand apart from the other Ukrainian law firms, because real estate practice has been at our core for more than 30 years.

Labor and Employment

Our team of lawyers has extensive experience in working with international law firms and in-house lawyers in connection with their Ukrainian projects.

Tax

The primary focus is on company taxation and compliance, commercial transaction structuring, import/export and customs relations, cross-border payments, profit/investment repatriation, etc.

Product Liability

A wide variety of foreign-made goods and services are readily available for sale in Ukraine. All of them must comply with Ukrainian consumer rights protection legislation, which is now fully in line with EU laws.

Intellectual Property

We have a pre-eminent reputation for transactional IP work, including trademarks, patents, copyright, regulatory data protection and exclusivity, trade secrets.

Business Immigration Law

Foreign citizens enter Ukraine for different reasons: work, marriage, education, and like elsewhere in the world, foreigners who live and work in Ukraine have to comply with Ukrainian immigration law.

Government Relations

As part of providing corporate legal services, we often interact with state and local authorities. In all cases we establish transparent relations between our clients and the government sector on every level.

Government Relations