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Legal services for businesses from the WinnerLex Attorneys' Association mean providing the client with a wide range of legal services on an ongoing basis.
It is by providing companies with legal services on a retainer basis that we fully live up to our slogan, "Business without legal barriers".
The WinnerLex Attorneys' Association provides ongoing services to agricultural firms, development and construction companies, and light industry, mechanical engineering and other industrial enterprises, ranging from private companies to joint-stock companies and groups of affiliated companies.
Having two permanent offices, in Kyiv and Dnipro, allows us to provide effective legal services to companies in various cities of the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as in the Kirovohrad and Odesa regions.
The WinnerLex Attorneys' Association offers retainer legal services for a company either as a whole or in specific areas, such as tax matters or litigation support, depending on the client’s needs.
We offer legal services for companies in Kyiv and Dnipro starting from UAH 10,000 per month.
Additional advantages of legal support provided specifically by attorneys:
- legal services provided by attorneys guarantee that the information you share is protected by attorney-client privilege;
- to obtain the information and documents needed to provide legal assistance under a legal services agreement, an attorney has the right to send attorney’s requests that must be answered;
- unlike ordinary law firms, which may have no attorneys on staff and engage them under a separate agreement, legal services from our Attorneys' Association cover the full range of legal assistance that requires attorney status, with no extra mark-ups and under a single agreement.
Comprehensive legal support for a company may include the following services:
Legal support of contractual relations
- drafting offers, contracts and agreements with counterparties, including standard ones that take the client’s interests into account;
- reviewing draft contracts and agreements received from counterparties to identify and eliminate risks for the client;
- checking that the client’s staff correctly prepare the related primary documents in contractual relations with counterparties (certificates, consignment notes and other documents);
- negotiating the terms of contracts and agreements with counterparties (drafting protocols of disagreements, taking part in negotiations, handling the related business correspondence);
- full legal support of complex transactions involving real estate, land and the purchase and sale of corporate rights, etc.
Outsourced claims management for the performance of contractual obligations:
- drafting claims to counterparties that fail to perform contracts;
- reviewing and responding to counterparties’ claims;
- representing the client in the enforcement of court judgments.
Legal services in tax law:
- legal tax advice, including on tax optimisation of business processes;
- identifying the tax risks of business transactions and ways to minimise them;
- preparing the client for tax inspections and providing legal support during them;
- preparing responses to requests from the tax authorities.
Legal support in protecting the client’s interests in court:
- protecting the client’s interests in courts of all jurisdictions in disputes arising from contractual relations;
- appealing against tax notices-decisions and other unlawful decisions and actions of the tax authorities;
- challenging in court unlawful actions and decisions of other state authorities and local self-government bodies;
- representing the client in customs, corporate, labour, civil and intellectual property disputes and other categories of disputes that may arise in a company’s operations.
Legal services for a company’s internal and corporate affairs:
- drafting and legal review of internal legal documents, including those on HR and employment relations, the company’s internal structure, regulations and rules;
- reviewing draft contracts and agreements received from counterparties to identify and eliminate risks for the client;
- preparing corporate governance documents for companies of various legal forms, legal support of management bodies, drafting the necessary documents (notices to members/shareholders, draft resolutions);
- legal support of joint-stock companies and their dealings with the National Securities and Stock Market Commission and the National Depository of Ukraine.
Legal support and protection in relations with regulatory and other state authorities:
- legal analysis of regulatory and other acts of state authorities affecting the client’s business;
- correspondence with state authorities;
- preparing for inspections by regulatory authorities and providing legal support during them;
- representing the client before state authorities and local self-government bodies.
Legal support and protection in relations with law enforcement agencies:
- prompt protection of the client (staff/management) during unexpected visits by law enforcement officers, support during investigative and other actions in criminal proceedings (temporary access to documents, searches, seizure of property, etc.);
- appealing against unlawful actions of law enforcement agencies, including in court;
- drafting responses to requests from law enforcement agencies;
- filing reports with law enforcement agencies about actions harming the client.
Oral and written consultations on commercial, labor, civil, tax, banking, corporate, land and other areas of law;
Development and realization of legal mechanisms for implementing business projects;
Drafting and legal expertise of legal documents, including contracts, letters to contractors, labor and corporate documents;
Preparing for and supporting during state fiscal service checks; consulting on tax optimization;
Obtaining permits and licenses necessary for performing certain types of business activities;
Maintaining relations with banking institutions;
Drafting statutory documents, providing state registration of foundation, reorganization and liquidation legal entities of all organization and legal forms;
Claims work, including the preparation and submission of claims to debtors, taking measures for pre-trial settlement of disputes;
Representing the Client's interests in the state and local authorities, tax, customs and law enforcement agencies, including during inspections, searches and seizures;
Participating in negotiations on the Client's side with contractors, suppliers, partners and legal support of agreements;
Legal assistance during labour and corporate conflicts;
Advocacy and representation in courts of all instances.
If you are systematically in need of legal assistance, it is advisable to consider legal outsourcing services that will save you the costs of employing a full-time lawyer, their workplace, optimize your taxes, be independent from sick leaves, vacations as well as other human factors, and to receive higher quality of resolving your legal issues.
Both early legal management of the risks of current business activity (signing new contracts, tax optimisation, corporate restructuring, etc.) and an effective response to negative challenges (improper actions of counterparties and unfair competitors, corporate conflicts, litigation, searches, seizures and inspections by regulatory authorities) undoubtedly help reduce significant losses. After all, one wrong decision by a manager can lead to multimillion financial losses or fines of a similar size from state authorities
Before any transaction involving the acquisition of property or property or other rights (for example, the purchase of corporate rights, real estate or a land plot), you need a legal review of the situation around that property or those rights (the so-called due diligence): verify that the current owner lawfully acquired ownership of the property or rights and find out whether there are any court disputes concerning them. This lets you identify and weigh the existing risks before the transaction.
In case of selling mutually owned property (without determined size of the parts), the written consent of the other co-owner must be obtained. If a sales agreement of property is subject to a notarial certification, like for instance a sales agreement of an apartment or a house, the consent of the co-owner for the sale of the property must be notarized. Otherwise, the former co-owner will be able to challenge the lawfulness of the transaction to the court in the absence of his consent to the alienation of the property.
Prior to carrying out any transaction related to the acquisition of property, ownership or other rights (for example, the purchase of corporate rights, real estate, land plot), it is necessary to make a legal expertise of how the matters stand with these property or rights (the so-called due diligence) - check the lawfulness of the acquisition of ownership of this property or rights of the current owner, to find out about the existence of litigation over such property. This will allow you to identify and weigh up the risks before the transaction.
In case of a conflict with the employee, it should be remembered that such an employee may go to court even after several years, since under the Labour Code of Ukraine, in case of violating the wage law, the employee has a right to go to court with a claim for recovery of his due wages without any time limit. Moreover, in case of non-payment of the outstanding sums to the dismissed employee due to the owner or their authorized body, the enterprise must pay the employee their average earnings for the entire time of delay on the day of the actual settlement. Therefore, it is desirable to resolve wage disputes promptly.
There are two types of companies that need external legal services (so-called legal outsourcing).
- The first type includes either small firms for which having a lawyer on staff is not worthwhile, or companies with well-established, stable work processes that therefore do not need eight hours of legal support every day.
- The second type includes large companies with their own legal department, where the qualifications or number of in-house lawyers are not always sufficient to resolve the whole range of legal issues, since in-house lawyers’ experience is limited to the functions they perform in their current work. Moreover, it is impossible for one specialist to be highly qualified in tax, customs, corporate, banking, labour, commercial and land law at the same time while also being a strong litigator.
For our retainer clients we have developed special terms that save up to half the cost of services:
- The client receives priority service.
- Savings on an in-house employee’s pay (41.5% personal income tax, single social contribution and military levy), no sick pay, holiday pay, etc., and an adjustment of the financial result through the cost of legal services.
- An attorneys’ association does not fall ill, go on annual or maternity leave or resign, so our qualified specialists in the relevant field will always provide legal assistance regardless of the human factor.
- Legal assistance specifically from attorneys before courts and law enforcement agencies 24/7, in emergencies (court hearings, raider attacks, inspections, interrogations, searches, investigative actions, etc.), and the possibility of compensating the client’s legal costs.
- In effect, for the salary of one in-house legal adviser, the client gets not one narrowly specialised lawyer but a whole team of professional attorneys with extensive experience in various areas of law, which ensures a comprehensive approach. The advantage of external legal advisers is precisely that they are often narrowly specialised, that is, highly qualified in one or several areas of law.
- A clearly defined monthly budget for attorneys allows funds to be allocated effectively to other expenses. At the end of each month, the client also receives a detailed report on the work done, broken down by the hour.
- No costs for the lawyers’ workplace and day-to-day work (office equipment, travel, mobile communications, stationery, professional development).
- Our Association’s specialists have many years of successful experience in various areas of law, including practical work in state authorities, among them the tax authorities.
- Our attorneys have won hundreds of court cases, often involving tens of millions of hryvnias, and have handled the legal side of complex business projects.
- We work on an ongoing basis with state registrars, notaries and auditors, so we can complete turnkey tasks that require both legal and audit assistance as well as notarial and registration actions.
Law firms may have no attorney on staff at all. In that case, legal services are provided by lawyers who have no right to practise as attorneys.
Legal assistance is then limited to advice and contract/claims work. A law firm’s lawyer may even be a recent university graduate.
Only an attorney, acting under an appropriate agreement, can represent interests in court, provide legal protection when law enforcement agencies visit a company to conduct a search, and act in other similar situations.
That is why the price of law firms’ legal services often does not include the legal services that an attorney can provide. If they are needed, the client has to conclude a separate agreement with an attorney and pay for them separately as well.
An attorneys’ association employs only attorneys and their assistants. Even to become an attorney’s assistant, the relevant work experience is required.
Therefore, by concluding a legal services agreement with an attorneys’ association, the client can be sure that it will receive the full range of legal assistance under that agreement, from legal advice to representation in courts of all instances or defence in criminal proceedings. And at a price agreed in advance, with no extra mark-ups "for an attorney’s services".
Moreover, unlike many law firms that have no attorneys on staff at all or only a few, the price of legal services includes all types of legal assistance.
Ongoing legal services allow the client to obtain the necessary legal services at a lower price than the same services cost under one-off agreements.
In addition, retainer legal services give the client priority, which matters when handling a large number of urgent tasks, as well as a number of other preferences.
The legal services agreement offered by our Attorneys' Association covers ALL possible types of legal assistance the client may need.
Legal services packages differ only in the time agreed in advance for providing legal assistance and in the hourly rate of the Attorneys' Association.
In other words, legal services are paid for according to the time spent, regardless of the type of legal assistance provided. The greater the required volume of legal services, the lower the hourly rate of our work for the client.
That is why we always take an individual approach to each client, helping them determine the monthly volume of legal services they need when concluding the agreement and offering a price that best suits that package.