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In 2024, certain currency control restrictions introduced on the first day of the full-scale invasion are still in force in Ukraine. The National Bank of Ukraine reviews and eases some of these restrictions, but many of the prohibitions on foreign exchange transactions remain.
Following the Constitutional Court’s (“TCC”) decision annulling the monetary limits for appeal in administrative jurisdiction, the TCC has annulled the regulation that no appeal can be filed against decisions on cases of tax and full remedy and actions of annulment of administrative acts, the subject matter of which does not exceed five thousand liras, as well as the regulation regarding the revaluation of monetary limits. The decision will enter into force on September 21, 2024, nine months after its publication in the Official Gazette.
Zane Bule-Mitka and Zane Veidemane-Berzina have been appointed as Associate Partners at Ellex Klavins.
Binder Groesswang has advised Anadi Bank on transferring its Carinthian branches with around 42,000 retail customers, 250 SME customers, and a business volume of just under EUR 1.7 billion to Grawe Banking Group's Bank Burgenland. E+H advised Grawe.
Linklaters has advised Turkiye Ihracat Kredi Bankasi on its equity investment in the Africa Finance Corporation, the pan-African infrastructure-focused multilateral financial institution.
Asters has advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on its EUR 10 million financing for a Ukrainian manufacturer of oak lamellas.
Sayenko Kharenko has advised the International Finance Corporation on a EUR 40 million equivalent risk-sharing facility for Credit Agricole Ukraine.
