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
  • Credentials
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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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She's client-oriented, easily summarizes problems and finds solutions

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