Asters took part in IT Ukraine Legal Conference 2022

On 14 July 2022, IT Ukraine Legal Conference 2022 took place. The event, arranged by IT Ukraine Association, brought together state and business representatives, experts in IT law and finance, international partners to jointly discuss the issues and challenges of wartime that are relevant for the Ukrainian IT industry.

During the presentations, the speakers covered the following issues:

• governmental fiscal policy and initiatives to support the IT industry
• integration of the Ukrainian IT industry into the global market perspectives, ways to preserve the competitive advantages of the national IT companies, specifics of working with international partners
• GIS contracts, private entrepreneurs' taxation and use of various payment systems
• transformation of business and IT products, due diligence procedures, finding foreign financing for Ukrainian IT companies
• current state of the labour market in IT, salary level, current market demand for specialists

Kostyantyn Solyar, Partner, Head of Tax Practice and Co-Head of Private Client Practice at Asters, spoke about the possible tax consequences and aspects of tax structuring for businesses that have been forced to move to EU countries. His presentation in Ukrainian is available here.

Anton Sintsov, Counsel at Asters, answered the most topical issues related to mobilisation and employees' reservation procedure, in particular who can be reserved and what documents are required. His presentation in Ukrainian is available here.

Asters is the largest law firm in Ukraine with offices in Kyiv, Washington D.C., London and Brussels. Chambers Europe 2022 recognizes 21 lawyers of Asters – the largest number of the renowned practitioners in a single Ukrainian law firm.