Legal Support for Business

Legal support for Business in Ukraine is regulated by Corporate law – a sector of law which includes provisions governing relations between the corporate members and legal entity in all aspects of the creation, operation, reorganization and liquidation of legal entities.

The clients of J&L Consulting might be attracted to Ukraine as a developing country with favorable business conditions. Some of our clients may have noticed many opportunities in Ukraine for themselves but might not be sure in what to engage exactly. Others reach the company’s professionals knowing which business to set up but willing to do it right from the beginning to avoid the start-up mistakes in the new country.

As a full-service firm our goal is to ensure compliant operation of your business as well as to make it run smoothly and profitably.

Corporate lawyers of J&L Consulting are ready to navigate you in all legal matters through all the stages of your business activity from pre-corporation and market entry to well-established and robust operational activity.  

J&L Consulting provides the following services in the sphere of business consulting:

Commercial representation and support

• conducting analytical market research and marketing consulting

• business scouting, matchmaking

• prospecting lists of potential partners, contractors, back-end manufacturing centers

• outsourcing possibilities

• comparing and evaluating different entry strategies

• professionally written business plan and/or marketing plan, implementation

• brand representation in the local market by reaching out to Ukrainian vendors and potential clients

• opening the “right doors” within the key players on the market

• creating cost effectiveness and SWOT analysis reports for the feasibility of expanding your business to Ukraine

• competitor analysis, benchmarking

• organizing client’s supply chain in Ukraine

• identification and participation in public tenders

• business licenses and other corporate services 

Administrative and Back Office Support

• formal company establishment (all legal aspects including nominal legal address, nominee shareholder, interim and nominee director), ready-made companies with nominee service, alternative liquidation, dormant companies 

• operational help in setting up a local branch or representative office, virtual office services and subscription to secretarial services

• financial management and reporting, submission of company financial statements

• coordination of accounting firm, invoicing, handling accounts receivable /payable

• HR administration and payroll services

• organizing of ordinary and extraordinary shareholders meetings and general assemblies,

• preparing minutes of the meetings and assemblies

• preparing drafts of all the meetings, assemblies and board of directors resolutions

• appointment and dismissal of board of directors’ or supervisory board members

• appointment and dismissal of plenipotentiary, general and special proxies

• dealing with all year-end duties i.e. preparation of board of directors’ activity report and appropriate shareholders’ meeting resolutions

• preparation and submission of all changes to the company’s articles of association and their registration with the Companies Register, i.e.: changes of company’s name, share capital, registered address (seat) and any other provisions of the articles of association and statute

• support in sale of shares or real estate transactions

• monitoring and communication with the authorities during the process of updates

• applying for and obtaining various certificates from the authorities 

• corporate compliance audits

• maintenance of company documents archives

• other associated back office functions necessary to run your local operations

Those services are accompanied by organization of:

• meetings with notaries

• translations of documents

• sworn translators assistance

• other institutions or authorities representatives

All as requested by the client

J&L Consulting as a business consulting firm has been supervising and running compliance on behalf of its clients for almost 20 years by covering the full spectrum of business needs in corporate law. Thus we definitely are a trustworthy and reliable partner for your existing business or start-up in Ukraine. 

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