International corporate law

In the modern world any state cannot normally function and dynamically develop being in isolation from other countries.

As Ukraine integrates into the world community, new attitudes in foreign trade activities appear and those, already existing ones, become stronger; Ukrainian business is compelled to carry out the European and international financial requirements connected with the struggle against money-laundering, earned by criminal way, and to experience the measures directed against counterfeit investments, non-payments of taxes, shadow circulation of means on its own business.

Plenty of Ukrainian businessmen invest money in purchase of shares of foreign companies with the purpose of access to the international financial resources, and also an output to the international markets.

The issue of legalization of means abroad is topical not only due to the point of view of open relations with law machinery. Legal beneficiary enjoys also the following advantages and opportunities:

• advantages to investors: they can estimate risks on the basis of the coherent information;
• sharing, an output to the international financial markets;
• an opportunity of the free control of means and business;
• an opportunity of the overt establishment of holding structures;
• safety of business and averting of assumption;
• legalization of business, opportunity to avoid application of sanctions connected with struggle against money-laundering: examinations of the company, blockage of money movements;
• bringing up the legalized business to higher level of status;
• opportunity of usage of the resident companies, filing of the accounts and obtaining of certificates of tax residency with the purpose of elimination of double taxation;
• opportunity of establishment hereditary legal relationship;
• opportunity to carry out overt PR-campaign of activity of the company and business as a whole;
• opportunity of the open payment of dividends;
• legalization of the property and incomes.

One of the important elements of the international tax planning is contracts on elimination of double taxation, having a priority over the national legislation. Usually these agreements are used for set-off of the paid taxes and reduction in repatriation tax, and also for conducting some kinds of business in the contractual country without opening representative office and taxes payment.

In tax planning the opportunity of getting of professional corporate international service, service of skilled auditors, knowledge of the international legislation is important. We can provide all this stuff with the help of our partners in London - the center of the international financial and corporate market.

In the sphere of civil relations connected with consulting service on a foreign market of Ukraine, experts of the law firm «Dmitrieva and partners» render such a complex of service:

• Elaboration of corporate and tax schemes for minimization of tax allocation and protection of the rights of client.
• Obtainment of a license of NBU on realization of investments abroad
• Examination of business (Due Diligence)
• International investments risk assessment
• Sharing, output to the international financial markets with the direct dividends payment opportunity.
• Organization of system of the overt constructing of holding structures using the resident companies.
• Business legalization support.
• Consultation on:
  -  the organization of financial flows,
  - modeling of hereditary legal relations,
  - legalization of property and income,
  - protection of business and prevention of its assumption.

«Dmitrieva and partners» has unique experience in granting consulting legal services and support of operations in the field of the international corporate and commercial law, development of individual schemes on legal support of the international investment activity, optimization of the taxation of holdings and private investors.

We shall help to construct structure of business so that it is reliably supervised by proprietors at preservation of the confidentiality by them, the most valuable actives are to be reliably protected, also from any of the state sanctions. Thus all corporate structure would be legitimate and is created without infringements of the Ukrainian legislation.

The law company «Dmitrieva and partners» renders services on expert examination of business (Due Diligence) for check of legality and commercial appeal of the planned transaction or the investment project.

Experts of the company will help to choose optimum (traditional) jurisdiction, for example, for registration of non-material actives or optimization of the taxation at export-import transactions.

The important factors for a choice of jurisdiction are the special norms of the tax laws first of all adjusting taxation of property, dividends, taxation of incomes at "source". Our experts regularly carry out monitoring of changes in the legislation of the international agreements and the European tax law which opens new opportunities for realization of low tax structurization according to economic and financial interests of business of our clients.

We guarantee our clients the highest level of confidentiality and safety of the information received from the client. Special measures on exclusion of conflicts of interests are developed and undertaken by our highly professional experts.

The gained experience allows offering not only registration and audit of the companies of any organizational-legal forms, but also obtainment of the Certificate of tax residence, VAT-number Certificate, Certificates on registration of bar-codes, liquidation and etc.

The partner of the law company «Dmitrieva and partners» - the consulting company «Alliance Consultancy», (Great Britain) is specialized on granting of a full variety of services on creation and support of activity of legal persons in the UK.