ROSHEN's Executive Director Artem Saprykin opens the new season of EBA-Asters Legal School

On 15 September 2021, Artem Saprykin, Executive Director at ROSHEN corporation, held an online lecture on corporate governance in private companies kicking off the new 16^th season at EBA-Asters Legal Development Program (EBA-Asters Legal School). This project is a free of charge platform for Ukrainian legal practitioners sharing experience and best practices to secure legal support and protection of business.

The School's agenda includes modules on the most pressing Ukrainian legal issues in business, such us the legislative regulation of remote work (the lecture will be delivered by Kateryna Marchenko, Deputy Legal Manager UA&MD, FE at Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine Limited, and Inesa Letych, Counsel at Asters), as well as working with distributors (lecturer: Olena Limakova, Head of Legal Sandoz Ukraine and Eurasia sub-cluster). Also within the Legal School's program, Asters Partner Julia Semeniy will analyze the protection of intellectual property rights in the context of reforms, Asters Partner Oleksandr Vozniuk will hold a lecture on down raids of the AMC, and Asters Partner Sergiy Grebenyuk and Counsel Orest Stasiuk will talk about law enforcement and business security. All lectures in the new season will be delivered online.

“ROSHEN is one of the largest private companies in Ukraine and is among Top-30 World Best Confectionery Manufacturers, that's why we have gained extensive experience in solving real challenges businesses face both on the national and the global level", – Artem Saprykin points out. "I would like to thank EBA and Asters for an opportunity to share our company's best practices with members of the leading business association in Ukraine and hope that together we will contribute to making Ukraine a better place for doing business."

“Ukrainian legal landscape is changing very rapidly and such programs as EBA-Asters Legal School help our members to keep up with all the latest legislation novelties and trends in legal support of business", – Yuliya Melnyk, EBA Deputy Director, Corporate Development, points out. "We are grateful to our long-term partner Asters for co-organizing the Legal School and their support in inviting authoritative speakers and choosing the hottest topics for the program's lectures."

The Legal School's agenda and registration for employees of EBA member-companies are available following this link.

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ROSHEN Confectionery Corporation is among Top-30 World Best Confectionery Manufacturers. The Corporation consists of Ukrainian factories (Kyiv, Kremenchug, Boryspil and two production sites in Vinnitsa), the Klaipeda Confectionery Factory (Lithuania), Bonbonetti Choco Kft (Budapest, Hungary), and also Vinnytsa Dairy Factory. ROSHEN's products are being sold in 55 countries globally.

European Business Association (EBA) - the premier organization for foreign business in Ukraine - brings together over 950 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 2021 recognizes 23 lawyers of Asters – the largest number of the renowned practitioners in a single Ukrainian law firm.