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Yuriy Kotliarov Julia Semeniy

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Our multidisciplinary team advises and represents established businesses and startups in every segment of technology industry and data analytics across a full range of legal areas including IP rights, taxation, finance and securities, corporate, antitrust, M&A, litigation, cybersecurity and data protection, white-collar crimes.

Information Technology practice is part of the global route of our professional development in Technology & Innovations fields, which also includes communications, digital media and cybersecurity practices.

Clients: software developers and vendors, IT-related service providers, hardware manufacturers, technology providers, digital platforms, cryptocurrency high-net-worth investors, data analytics businesses.

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Representative experience:

Advising a US provider of financial services technology on Ukrainian regulatory issues in connection with applicable restrictions on the provision of software, SaaS and IT services;
Advising an international software company on distribution and franchising agreements in the CIS;
Advising a US multinational production and service technology company on a number of issues regarding compliance issues, privacy and data protection;
Advising one of the largest furniture and home goods retailers in the world on a wide range of digital signature issues;
Advising a company managing the project of a multi-platform messenger on regulatory issues related to the ISO implementation to finance the development of a new blockchain platform;
Advising a Japanese e-commerce company on regulatory issues in connection with cryptocurrency use;
Advising an international game provider on operation of international Internet sweepstakes program in Ukraine;
Advising a multinational telecommunication corporation on the enforcement of IP rights and cease of multiple usage of client’s TM infringing TM rights;
Advising a leading provider of IT outsourcing, cloud solutions, webhotels and hosting on IP issues, including IP-related clauses of contract, legality of transferring industrial/intellectual property rights;
Advising one of the world’s fastest-growing cybersecurity companies on IP rights relating to the client’s software;
Assisting an e-commerce agency with drafting of agreements with the software engineers;
Advising US multinational technology conglomerate on software distribution model and related IP issues;
Advising a major Ukrainian bank on legal issues concerning the screening of an employee’s corporate email correspondence and admissibility of those emails as evidence in court;
Advising Ukrainian HNWIs on matters related to reorganization of cryptocurrency-related business with presence in EU;
Advising a multinational networking and telecommunications company in connection with acquisition of global content delivery platform with a subsidiary in Ukraine.

Featured services:

Advising on complex IT and outsourcing transactions, research, design, development, exploitation and distribution of technologies and innovations for all stakeholders
Advising on technology transfer and related licensing, distribution and services agreements
Acquisition, clearance and transfer of IP rights, trademark issues and brand management
Advising on cryptocurrency regulations and transactions, including AML/CTF compliance and counterparty due diligence based on the use of blockchain analytics; tax implications and reporting requirements
Advising on implementation of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies across a range of industries such as finance, energy, real estate, transportation, supply chain and trade
Advising on crypto-assets creation, issuance and investment, in particular, on the implications associated with securities law, currency regulation and taxation.

Publications

Asters and IT Ukraine Association held webinars on Global Legal Support for Ukrainian IT

Asters advises Horizon Capital on IFC's co-investment in Miratech

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