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Imagine Lawyers, Asters, and Sayenko Kharenko Advise on Sale of Uklon to Kyivstar

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Imagine Lawyers has advised the shareholders of Uklon group companies on the sale of Uklon’s controlling stake to Kyivstar for USD 155 million. Asters advised Uklon. Sayenko Kharenko advised Kyivstar.

Uklon is a Ukrainian ride-hailing and delivery platform operating in 27 cities across Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

According to Imagine Lawyers, Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest digital operator, serves over 23 million mobile subscribers and more than 1.1 million home internet fixed-line customers as of December 2024. It is a part of the international Veon Group, which is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York.

“We look forward to welcoming Uklon into the Kyivstar family, adding new and complementary expertise to our portfolio of market-leading digital services and solutions," said Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov. "With this acquisition, we are happy to bring together two leading companies with strong value propositions, enhancing our ability to offer digital experiences for millions of Ukrainians according to our digital operator strategy."

The Imagine Lawyers team included Partners Alla Kozachenko, Galyna Zagorodniuk, and Illya Sverdlov and Of Counsel Olga Romanenko.

The Asters team included Partners Igor Svechkar and Tetiana Tyshchenko and Counsel Pavlo Verbolyuk.

The Sayenko Kharenko team included Partners Oleksandr Nikolaichyk, Volodymyr Sayenko, Alina Plyushch, Maksym Nazarenko, and Oleg Klymchuk, Counsels Iryna Bakina and Igor Pomaz, Senior Associate Olga Kyriusha, Taras Bondarenko, Associates Dmytro Zaiachkivskyi, Alina Kylymenchuk, Victoria Chorna, and Anastasiia Finko, and Junior Associates Ahil Aliiev and Vladyslav Novitskiy.

Asters at a Glance

Founded in 1995, Asters is the largest Ukrainian law firm with offices in Kyiv, Washington D.C., Brussels and London.

The Firm provides efficient transactional legal advice and represents clients on a broad spectrum of matters arising in the course of doing business in Ukraine. Asters has extensive industry-specific experience and plays a leading role in advising clients in various market sectors.

Asters’ 130-strong legal team combines world-class professionalism and quality with clear understanding of local realities so that our clients receive practically oriented advice in the most client-friendly manner. Asters’ lawyers received law degrees from the best European, Ukrainian and US law schools, including Yale, Harvard, Chicago University.

Asters has consistently remained at the top of the Ukrainian legal market throughout its history being acknowledged as Ukraine Law Firm of the Year by Who's Who Legal (2018-2022), The Lawyer European Awards (2020-2021), Chambers Europe Awards 2020 and holds top positions in the most authoritative international market reviews: The Legal 500, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, IFLR 1000, Who's Who Legal, Best Lawyers.

Firm's website.