Employment

SERVICES AND INFORMATION

Having extensive experience in providing legal services in labor law, our practice offers its clients an individual and professional problem-solving approach within the framework of employment relations. We provide services to major companies, trade unions and individuals, in particular, government officials, chief executives of industrial companies and foreign representatives.

Drafting of employment agreements and contracts, internal documents regulating employment relations
Employment of foreign workers, including obtaining work permits
Organization of trade union activities
Regulation of relations between employers and trade unions
Protection of employers’ and employees’ interests in employment relations, during their establishment and termination
Development of regulations and documents for labor aspects of business restructuring, redundancies or winding up of businesses
Representation in individual and collective labor disputes
Advising on wage arrears and compensation plans, payroll tax planning
Labor law related audits of corporate legal departments to assess their effectiveness, staff competence and risk mitigation

OUR CLIENTS

Today we are working on projects for more than 400 active clients

About us

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Founded in 1997, Ilyashev & Partners is one of the most prominent law firms in the Eastern European region. Today, Ilyashev & Partners employs more than 150 people in Ukraine and Estonia with its offices and representatives in Kyiv, Tallinn, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Odesa. The firm has been recognized by the most prestigious legal market research guides, according to which it occupies a leading position in the markets of Ukraine and Estonia.

25+
years in the market
50+
attorneys and lawyers
400+
customers on service
1000+
hearings in courts annually

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Discussing the task with you, analyzing all prospects and risks.
Thorough studying of the problem, taking into account the special aspects of your business activities.
Developing a strategy, suggesting solutions and action plan.

“The success of our firm results from the professionalism and expertise of our team”
Roman Marchenko, Senior Partner

Team

Leading experts

Oleksandr M. Denysenko
Attorney at Law, Counsel

An attorney with 25 years of legal practice, one of the leading experts in commercial litigation.
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Andriy B. Lytvyn
Attorney at Law, Insolvency Receiver, Head of Kharkiv Office

Expert in dispute resolution in general, economic, and administrative courts, bankruptcy cases, tax, and shareholders disputes, appeals against public procurement procedures.
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Olena V. Sereda
Lawyer

An expert in resolving disputes in the area of intellectual property in advertising and marketing, technology, media and telecommunication industries.
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Vitali Galitskihh
Head of Tallinn Office

Estonian expert in corporate, tax, employment and dispute resolution; holds a degree in IT law and intellectual property law.
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Our cases

The first in Ukraine release of a vessel against the British P&I Club’s undertaking
Result
The precedent in the Ukrainian law enforcement practice was established in the interests of CHALLENGE SHIPPING LTD, the owner of the bulk carrier New Challenge, detained at the Port of Mykolaiv in connection with an incident taking place during cargo operations. The team of Odesa Office of Ilyashev & Partners has secured the acceptance by the State Ecological Inspection of Ukraine of the P&I club’s letter of undertaking as a sufficient and only security in respect of the maritime claim.

Sergey M. Nedelko
Attorney at Law, Counsel, Head of Odesa Office
Lifting the unlawful financial burden imposed on green energy companies
- #Energy & Natural Resources
Result
As a result of a two-year legal dispute were recognized as unlawful and invalid the amendments to the formula approved by the National Commission for State Regulation in the Spheres of Energy and Utilities, which obliged electricity producers under the “green” tariff to compensate SE Guaranteed Buyer for losses incurred due to its inability to sell the electricity purchased from them.

Mikhail I. Ilyashev
Attorney at Law, Managing Partner, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine
Introduction of provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of glass containers from Belarus
- #International Trade
Result
A provisional anti-dumping duty of 31.37% was applied to glass containers for food and beverages originating in the Republic of Belarus based on the interim results of the anti-dumping investigation. This decision on application of provisional duty on imports of goods to Ukraine was the first decision adopted by the Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade after 24 February 2022.

Olena L. Omelchenko
Attorney at Law, Partner, Head of International Trade Practice
Defending the Red Cross emblem in a dispute with a network of medical centers
- #Medicine & Healthcare
- #Intellectual Property
Result
The network’s obligation to stop using the Red Cross emblem was formalized in an amicable agreement approved by the economic court within a framework of a court action. The network started the rebranding. The dispute became the first case in 30 years of successful protection of the Red Cross emblem in Ukraine.

Dmytro S. Nikulesko
Attorney at Law

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The Legal 500 – EMEA 2023 Recommended in Employment for Ukraine
Chambers Europe 2023 Recommended in Employment for Ukraine
Ukrainian Law Firms 2022. A Handbook for Foreign Clients Leading Firm in Labor & Employment for Ukraine
Market Leaders: Ranking of Law Firms of Ukraine 2021 Top position in Labor and Migration Law