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OUR MISSION IS TO BE USEFUL FOR TRANSPORT, SHIPPING & INTERNATIONAL TRADE PEOPLE IN THEIR FAIR BUSINESS Your one-stop-shop WHY WHY Interlegal Interlegal

20+ Interlegal law firm was founded in 1995. Our main spheres of 24/7 Due to Interlegal vast geographic scope, we are able to act practice are Transport, Shipping and International Trade. We irrespective of location and time zones. YEARS are focused on Black Sea and Caspian regions. OF EXPERIENCE 365

6 1000+ Every year we close over a thousand of the clients' files. We Interlegal is the only law firm in Ukraine which opened its can forecast better the scenario development and we know offices in Turkey, Georgia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania. OFFICES FILES more successful solutions than anyone.

29 Due to associated offices in 29 countries, we are able to settle 70% Over 70% of disputes result in amicable settlements. We save the client's issues as soon as possible in the Black Sea, our clients’ time and costs. We understand that “The profit is Mediterranean and Baltic Regions, mainland Europe, the United SETTLEMENTS COUNTRIES nothing - cash is the king!”. Kingdom, North Africa and Middle East. SHIPPING SHIPPING Services and solutions

If your business is For over 20 years we handle claims on , charter x Ship Sale & Purchase x Letter of indemnity related to sea parties and bills of lading, settle disputes arising from x x Ice clauses carriages, we are , ship sale and purchase, settle the issues on x x and salvage insurance, general average, salvage, ship collision and x Time Charter x Cargo claims the law firm #1 in others. We protect shipowners on a daily basis both at the x Voyage Charter x and the Black Sea claims handling stage and at courts and maritime Contracts on: x Ship collision region maritime arbitrations. x ship management x Pollution from ships law. x towage x Accidents Our clients are shipowners, managers, charterers, cargo x STS x Dangerous owners, P&I clubs, insurance companies, ship suppliers, ship x bunkering x H&M and P&I insurance agents, fuel suppliers, ship repair yards and companies, x ship repair x Subrogation banks and companies engaged in maritime and shipping x shipbuilding x Freight brokerage & LegalCare business. x ship

20+ #1 20+ YEARS IN IN THE BLACK SEA ANNUAL FILES ON SHIP SHIPPING REGION ARREST/RELEASE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL T R A D E T R A D E Services and solutions for traders

If your business In order to create your business functioning clear mechanism we will: Trade scheme diagnostics under agricultural product export x check you trade work scheme, contracts and service agreements, We will check promptly your documentary work scheme, declare the detected risks and give relates to determine risks and give recommendations upon risk mitigation recommendations upon the contract correction. international trade, x draft personal proformas of contracts and charter parties If necessary, we will correct contracts and help you to arrange them with counteragents. Both contracts x provide a training course for your personnel, based on real trade and schemes should be reliable. we may help you and logistic case studies in the Black Sea Region in all its aspects, x provide a personal legal adviser for your trade contract(s), available Trainings for Traders on GAFTA/FOSFA contracts 24/7/365, supported by 40+ experts in various specializations in 6 Your experts (executives, logistics, lawyers) will update their knowledge, receive answers to all the from organization offices in the Black Sea Region questions of concern and get trained to solve practical tasks. to promotion. Our guidelines are based on case studies of the current and the previous seasons. Our trainers are If your rights are violated or the dispute arose, we will: practicing experts who settled them successfully. x make pre-arbitral settlement and achieve the result with 70% It is obviously cheaper and better to study and to train personnel based on someone's experience. probability of success, without arbitration costs x defend your interests at courts and arbitrations worldwide LegalCare 24/7: Contract Consulting x enforce the decision with preliminary arrest of assets If you entrust us with one, several and all your GAFTA & FOSFA commercial contracts, you will obtain professional legal support in full. Due to unique combination of specializations, experience, professional You will have a personal manager, available 24/7/365, supported by 40+ experts in various contacts and geographic scope, Interlegal provides prompt and effective specializations. assistance to trade companies upon the issues related to obligations under sale contracts and relationship with carriers, freight forwarders and LegalCare 24/7: Cargo Protection terminals. If you have grounds to suppose that your goods may be arrested or blocked at the port/on board of the vessel either by state authorities or by other persons, our attorneys will control the situation even before the problem occurs and will do all their best to facilitate your contract performance with minimum losses or without losses Our experts in the 6 Black Sea Region offices and 29 associated offices worldwide are ready to: 24/7 70% 6 x repel an attack on your cargo at any Black Sea port/terminal and most of discharge ports AMICABLE OFFICES AT x cancel unlawful arrests and to facilitate vessel sailing to the destination port with cargo on board CLIENT x secure arrest and/or defense of forcedly discharged cargo at the discharge port SETTLEMENTS ALL THE BLACK SEA SUPPORT LARGE PORTS TRANSPORT & TRANSPORT & L O G I S T I C S L O G I S T I C S Services and solutions

If your business x Draft a reliable universal or certain agreement on Claim settlement: Liability & insurance: relates to forwarding or other cargo transportation services x Loss of cargo x Cargo insurance x Shortage of cargo x Freight forwarders', carriers' and organization of all x Help you to draft your own House and NVOCC, jointly with drafting FCR individual proforma x Damage of cargo terminals' liability insurance the types of and FCR regulations x Cargo retention by the carrier x Subrogation and recourse recovery x Cargo retention by state authorities x Terminals' and 's carriages, we x Give an answer, whether cargo may be retained under a x Transport claims liability know everything certain claim Demurrage: x Handling operations agreement you need or will x Hold negotiations with the container shipping line in x Laytime x FCR and warehouse respect of demurrage and storage costs for unclaimed need. x Forced storage/berthing Other: cargo x Organization and maintenance of x Appeal against decisions and activities x Specify the moment and actual reasons for damage to carriers' activity including NVOCC of customs authorities cargo under your control x Organization and maintenance of x Representation in cases on violation of x Help you to reject unlawful claims freight forwarders' activity customs rules x Provide defense at court and arbitration, claim security, x Container transport and House Bill of x Machinery and equipment purchase, debt recovery from clients, damage recovery from Lading temporary import, dredging, tariffs etc. subcontractors and many others

26 70% PROFESSIONAL AMICABLE ASSOCIATIONS SETTLEMENTS MEMBERSHIP P O R T S & P O R T S & TERMINALS TERMINALS Services and solutions

We know how to Ukraine is the last Black Sea country which launched a port x Construction and reconstruction x Terminals’ and freight forwarders’ structure investment reform. Everybody knows the flaws causing absence of foreign project financing liability insurance projects and to investors and new terminals in Ukraine. First, it is too intensive x Consortium with MTBS (Maritime & x Handling contracts, Terms and intrusion (or non-intrusion when necessary) of many state Transport business solutions) Conditions attract financing. authorities in the investment project performance. Neither x Public-private partnership x Transport lands and water fund lands investment tender and project terms nor tender and contract x Support of private cargo terminal x Port code of customs and port regulations are clear. Prescribed contractual values do not and logistic complex design and regulations always comply with international concepts. construction: greenfield, lease, x Cargo insurance concession, joint venture x Due diligence: legal, commercial, In order to provide maximum effective consulting to our clients x Machinery and equipment purchase, technical and environmental upon investments in ports and terminals, we joined the temporary import, dredging, tariffs consortium with Maritime & Transport Business Solutions B. V. etc.

MTBS is an international financial and strategic company offering business solutions to clients in transport and shipping industries. It is specialized in ports and terminals and facilitates basic expertize in strategies, feasibility study, transaction support and financing. 30+ 6 10+

INVESTMENT OFFICES AT YEARS OF COOPERATION PROJECTS ALL THE BLACK SEA WITH MTBS IN PORT INDUSTRY LARGE PORTS L I T I G A T I O N & L I T I G A T I O N & A R B I T R A T I O N A R B I T R A T I O N Services and solutions

Claims and disputes For many years, Interlegal experts represent effectively the x Claims Handling, i.e. pre-arbitral x Arrest of funds at the foreign arise regularly in clients at the foreign courts and arbitrations at the claim settlement between parties to the bank accounts Transport, Shipping crossroads of the English law and local law. contracts upon mutual settlements, x Arrest of corporate rights and and International goods quality and shortage other assets owned by companies Trade. We have also vast professional experience in dispute x Representation at international and natural persons both in settlement at the institutional arbitrations: LMAA (London maritime and industrial arbitrations Ukraine and abroad Maritime Arbitrators' Association), GAFTA (Grain and Feed But not all of them (LMAA, GAFTA, FOSFA and others) x Cargo arrest on board of vessels, Trade Association) and FOSFA (Federation of Oils, Seeds shall result in defeat x Dispute legal support at the High at terminals and warehouses and Fats Associations), in respect of non-conformity of the Court of Justice of England and x Sea-going and of any party. We goods quality and quantity, sea carriages, demurrage and Wales and other foreign courts detention at the Ukrainian and are proud of dispatch payment and case proceedings related to non- x Representation of parties at the foreign sea ports pretrial achievement fulfillment of contractual obligations, export prohibition, all International Commercial Arbitration of the Client’s types of similar prohibitive measures and many others. Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of goals. Commerce and Industry, the Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Ukrainian courts

70% 26 20+ AMICABLE PROFESSIONAL ANNUAL SETTLEMENTS ASSOCIATIONS ARBITRATION MEMBERSHIP PROCEEDINGS C O R P O R A T E C O R P O R A T E Services and solutions

The necessity of Non-resident companies still make business in such industries x International business organization x Analysis of contractual relationship in obtaining prompt as international trade, shipping, finances, despite crucial x Asset defense: holding companies, view of tax consequences and complete changes in global policy regarding offshores. Today real estate ownership x Protection against fraud schemes information and application of new and more complex tax planning schemes x Non-resident companies: registration x Joint ventures and joint activity forming a correct requires for promoting consultants and their further and maintenance x Consulting about tax legislation of legal position is a specialization. x Opening bank accounts Ukraine and other countries x Beneficiary owners x Freight tax must. Our experts will provide professional consulting upon tax x Tax information exchange x Transfer pricing We have law application and mitigate business risks by means of x Substance x Employment relations experience, structuring assets, national and international transactions. x Structuring transactions for tax x Challenging tax authorities' decisions knowledge and You will obtain proper information and solutions upon key optimization profound issues for your business. x Dividends, interest and royalty understanding of taxation both in Ukraine and foreign jurisdictions.

29 20+ ASSOCIATED YEARS OF OFFICES EXPERIENCE WORLDWIDE I N V E S T M E N T & I N V E S T M E N T & T R A N S A C T I O N S T R A N S A C T I O N S Services and solutions

We will help you to The concept of investment includes the whole visible range x Foreign investments x Warrantees (obligation security): choose and to check of commercial operations, from simple credit to complex x Port and terminal development escrow, letter of credit, guarantee objects and partners forms of engagement in the enterprise assets and business. x Public-private partnership (PPP): x Due diligence and to draft optimal Investment means transfer of free financial or material concession, joint venture, lease etc. x Privatization cooperation schemes resources by one person to another in order to perform a x Sale and purchase deals in Ukraine x Intellectual property for effective business. certain project for benefit. and abroad: corporate rights, shares, x Real estate and construction in real estate, business Ukraine and abroad We consult upon the issues of investment contract conclusion x Contracts, treaties, agreements and investment project performance both in Ukraine and abroad. Due to our long-term experience, we will help you to choose the most effective investment mechanism, to assess risk and to draft optimal version of the contract.

In case of any disputes we will defend your interests at the court. 30+ 29 20+ INVESTMENT PROJECTS ASSOCIATED YEARS OF IN THE BLACK SEA OFFICES EXPERIENCE REGION WORLDWIDE IN INVESTMENTS Y A C H T I N G Y A C H T I N G Services and solutions

In 2004 we were All yacht owners face the necessity of yacht registration and x Turn-key yacht purchase complex service the first law firm in flag selection. Yacht registration in the Ship Registry is a x Registration of yachts under the flags of convenience Ukraine which starting point for yacht existence as the subject of law. x Registration of companies launched yacht x Insurance of yachts practice. Now we Due to successful long-term cooperation with Marine x Yacht sale and purchase agreements remain the only Insurance Services SIA, the Latvian insurance broker, we x Yacht construction and repair agreements propose insurance policies of the top European insurance x Commercial operation of yachts Ukrainian law firm companies at any our office without leaving abroad. x VAT issues providing full range x Crew agreements of legal and Interlegal is a member of the International Yacht Lawyers x Establishment and maintenance of yacht clubs consulting services Network (IYLN), international association of law firms x Claims handling, arbitration and litigation in the yacht specialized in yachting. industry.

100+ #1 60+ YACHTS IN THE BLACK SEA ANNUAL CLIENTS’ ON SERVICE REGION ORDERS P E R S O N A L P E R S O N A L A T T O R N E Y A T T O R N E Y S E R V I C E S E R V I C E Services and solutions

We understand that In the framework of practice “Interlegal 24/7 Personal Criminal defense: Road police and traffic accidents: our clients need Attorney Service”, our clients and their family members have x Defense under search (seizure) at office x Visiting the place of traffic accident and its and at home documentary certification proper defense both an opportunity of 24/7 contact with the Law Union “International Law Collegium” attorneys in order to obtain x Training courses: how to behave during x Return of driving license in business and prompt consulting upon the personal issues. search and other procedural actions at x Insurance payment recovery personal issues. office; x Representation of client's interests at the x Training courses for employees, family police, court Experts of a special Attorney will tell you how to behave in a certain life situation, members and domestic staff: how to Family relationship (including civil what to say, which proposed documents are safe to sign, Law Union behave during search marriage): “International Law which rights and obligations the client has. When necessary, x Representation of client's interests at the x Consulting upon real estate purchase to Collegium” will help Attorney will visit the client immediately for professional legal police, court, office, personal residence family members & relatives and real estate assistance. you to solve and x Criminal proceedings defense registration Personal property taxation: x Partition of family's property even to prevent In order to secure the enterprise business, out attorneys x Consulting upon real estate tax payment x Drafting the marriage contract possible problems in created training courses “Staff preparation to visit of law x Consulting upon car tax payment Succession: this industry. enforcement bodies” and “Rules for personnel behaviour in x Judicial complaint against tax orders x Consulting upon execution of heritage case of inspections and procedural actions committed by law x Judicial determination of kinship and lost enforcement bodies”, aimed at: documents x Decrease of personnel’s fear against representatives of law x Judicial recognition of will as invalid enforcement bodies x Minimizing the number of further unjustified inspections and negative effects 24/7 7 x Reducing probability of unlawful seizure/leakage of information and documents. CLIENT PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW