Alesya Pavlynska | Munich | Hogan Lovells

Alesya Pavlynska

Business Lawyer Corporate & Finance

Languages

German, English, Russian, Ukrainian

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Alesya Pavlynska
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  • Overview
  • Experience
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She's client-oriented, easily summarizes problems and finds solutions

Chambers Europe, 2022

Alesya Pavlynska has more than 16 years of experience in Corporate/M&A, with focus on transactions, corporate restructurings and shareholders’ agreements.  

In the past, apart from M&A transactions and day-to-day corporate projects, Alesya also co-chaired German Desk and chaired Employment at one of the top-5 law firms in Ukraine, supporting foreign investors.

She personally invested a lot of efforts into the on-site implementation of the corporate law reform in Ukraine (including shareholders' agreements and the squeeze-out projects), aiming to raise the national investment climate index. As part of both corporate and employment teams, she also handled internal investigations, controversial and complex dismissals of the C-suite executives, worked on management incentives programs and corporate governance projects for subsidiaries of multinationals.

Alesya is the Head of the Legal Committee and Board Member at AHK Ukraine – German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and is engaged in active liaison with the DACH countries’ embassies towards building robust inter-country business cooperation and mutual development.

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...service and commercial awareness were very good

Chambers Europe, 2022

Representative experience

Acting for IBM (Ukrainian jurisdiction) on the global separation and reorganization of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc., due to the spin-off of Kyndryl into a separate publicly-traded company.*

Acting for Zeppelin International AG in a significant M&A deal in Ukraine, legal counseling on the squeeze-out and management of the post-acquisition integration of the target into Zeppelin Group.*

Acting for STADA (Germany) in the acquisition of non-plasma pharmaceutical business from Biopharma (Ukraine). It was the largest transaction in the Ukrainian pharmaceutical business for its history. *

Advising Bel (France) on reorganization (merger) of two private joint stock companies in Ukraine. The project was significantly complicated by quasi-treasury shares in the shareholding structure.*

Acting for OSI International Holding GmbH (Germany) while executing the squeeze-out and internal restructuring of the Ukrainian part of its business group (reorganization of a JSC into an LLC).*

Acting for Burda International Holding GmbH supporting management buyout of the Ukrainian part of Hubert Burda Media business, including a prior debt-to-equity swap.*

*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.

Credentials

Education
  • Specialist for Law, National Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine (Kharkiv), 2009
Memberships
  • International Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Ukrainian Bar Association

Recognition

Up and Coming (Employment): Alesya Pavlynska enters the rankings as a result of strong market support.

Chambers Europe, Band 2

2022
Next Generation Partner (Commercial law, Corporate/M&A)

Legal500, Tier 1

2022
Next Generation Partner (Commercial law, Corporate/M&A)

Legal500, Tier 1

2021
Recommended (Employment)

Legal500, Tier 1

2020
Next Generation Partner (Commercial law, Corporate/M&A)

Legal500, Tier 1

2020
Recommended (Employment)

Legal500, Tier 1

2019
Next generation lawyer; Rising Star (Commercial law, Corporate/M&A)

Legal500, Tier 1

2019
Spotlight Ranking (Employment): Alesya Pavlynska acts for private individuals and international corporations in employment compliance mandates and disputes

Chambers Europe

2023
Recommended Lawyer (Commercial law, Corporate/M&A)

Legal500 Germany

2023