L’Oreal Ukraine Legal Director Maria Paias kicks off the 12th season of EBA-Asters Legal School

On 5 March 2019, Maria Paias (Legal Director at L’Oreal Ukraine) held the lecture on compliance in relationship among suppliers, distributors and clients opening a new season at EBA-Asters Legal Development Program (EBA-Asters Legal School), a unique free of charge platform for Ukrainian legal practitioners sharing experience and best practices to secure legal support and protection of business.

Lectures in the new season of the Legal School will be delivered by the leading Ukrainian experts, in particular: Sergiy Zhukov (Judge of the Economic Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court) and Anna Zharova (Head of Legal and Compliance at Philips Ukraine).

The new season introduces the expansion of the Legal School agenda by the most pressing Ukrainian legal issues in business, such as outstaffing (the lecture will be delivered by Asters Partner Sergiy Grebenyuk, Counsel Orest Stasiuk and Counsel Inesa Letych) and effective communication with counterparties (lecturer: Asters Partner Oleksii Reznikov). Also within the Legal School's program Asters Of Counsel Leonid Antonenko and Counsel Oles Kvyat will shed the light on the regulation of LLC activities.

"L'Oreal has been represented in Ukraine since 2004, and in 15 years we have gained extensive experience in ensuring compliance in relationship with our distributors and clients," – comments Maria Paias.“It is my pleasure to share our company's best practices in legal support of business in Ukraine within the educational program held jointly by the most influential business association and the largest law firm in Ukraine.”

“We are happy that Legal Development Program, a result of the longstanding cooperation between the EBA and Asters, keeps developing and is in high demand among representatives of business operating in Ukraine," – Marianna Khomitska, EBA Management Development Centre Team Leader, points out. "Knowledge is power, and with the support of an all-star lecturer's team in the new season of our project the School's attendees for sure will improve their skills in business law."

The Legal School's agenda and registration for the lectures are available following this link.

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L’Oreal Ukraine is a branch company of L’Oreal Group – one of the world’s leading cosmetic companies headquartered in Paris (France). L’Oreal is currently active in over 130 countries, a representative office in Ukraine began operating in November 2004. L’Oreal principal activities are development, manufacture and marketing of cosmetics and dermatological products.

European Business Association (EBA) - the premier organization for foreign business in Ukraine - brings together over 1000 European, Ukrainian and international companies. EBA was established in 1999 as a forum for discussion and resolution of problems facing the private sector in Ukraine. This initiative of business people was supported by the European Commission. Being a non-profit Association of legal entities, the EBA sees its core mission as representing the interests of European and domestic investors in Ukraine, and improving the investment climate has been the EBA’s major concern since the moment it was founded.

Asters is the largest law firm in Ukraine with offices in Kyiv, Washington D.C., Brussels and London. Chambers Europe 2018 recognizes 22 lawyers of Asters – the largest number of the renowned practitioners in a single Ukrainian law firm.