Olga Khoroshylova

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Olga Khoroshylova heads Asters office in London, providing a liaison between London-based clients and project teams in various offices, maintaining and developing the firm’s relationships with its contacts, as well as actively seeking out new opportunities for the firm and its clients.

Olga’s extensive experience includes advising on a wide range of issues in capital markets, banking, finance, and energy practice areas, having represented underwrites, lenders, issuers and borrowers for over 12 years, including on some of the most innovative high-profile transactions in Ukraine. Olga is qualified as a Ukrainian lawyer and does not advise on English law.

Recognition:

“She is quite assertive, she knows the market well. She identifies issues and argues them with the counterparty's Ukrainian council to try and resolve them, but also recognises that there are complex difficult issues which need to be addressed ahead of time,” says one client.” The firm’s clients in Ukraine “continue to be impressed” by the services, IFLR1000 2014
“Olga Khoroshylova is singled out as a “very experienced practitioner.” She is admired for her stellar practice, covering capital markets, banking and finance, and restructuring and insolvency. She is much liked by clients, with one saying: "She is highly knowledgeable and helpful, and has superior insight into potential risks.", Chambers Europe 2013
“Olga Khoroshylova “is one of the leading banking and finance and capital markets advisers in Ukraine, and is also well versed in restructuring and insolvency matters.” She “has worked on various transactions. Recently she has been highly active in the finance and oil and gas sectors.”, Chambers Global 2013
"a leading finance lawyer. Clients speak of her in glowing terms and highlight her technical prowess and commercial nous. Sources say that ‘her knowledge is incredible and she works towards solutions instead of highlighting problems’, Chambers Global 2012

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Education:

Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National University, Master of International Law (with honours), 2001

Languages:

English, Ukrainian, Russian

Representative experience:

Olga has extensive capital markets, banking, finance, project finance and energy law experience including working as a partner in leading Ukrainian law firms for more than 12 years, having represented Ukrainian and international clients in high-profile deals, including having acted for the Ministry of Finance in relation to the sovereign bond issuances, the NJSC “Naftogas of Ukraine” and other state-owned Ukrainian companies, international and local banks and corporations in relation to various types of capital raising transactions.

In the energy practice Olga has been actively advising on licensing, permits, subsoil usage rights, negotiation and drafting of joint investment activity agreements, contractor service agreements, production sharing agreements and cross-border investment schemes. Some of the historic deals include:

Naftogaz of Ukraine on most of their foreign borrowings, including bilateral and syndicated loan facilities, debut Eurobond issuance, complex USD 1.6 billion debt restructuring;
Activ Solar as developer and the Ukrainian borrowers on all Ukrainian law aspects of the heavily secured project financing arranged by VTB Capital for the construction of the solar energy park in Crimea, Ukraine.