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Tetyana Dovgan

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Tetyana Dovgan is a Corporate/M&A Partner at CMS Ukraine, as well as a member of the wider CMS international private equity team.

Tetyana advises local and international clients on complex JVs, corporate restructurings, private equity and M&A transactions in Ukraine, across the CEE/CIS region and beyond, focusing on infrastructure, agriculture, IT and banking. She has led some of the highest-profile English law-governed deals in Ukraine, advising on all aspects of these transactions from on the ground in Kyiv. Tetyana also advises on general corporate matters, corporate finance and securities.

Tetyana is ranked by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who is Who Legal, Best Lawyers and other major international and local legal directories.

Awards & Recognitions

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“Tetyana Dovgan is definitely the number 1 M&A partner to reach out to in Ukraine.”

Legal 500, 2024
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“Tetyana Dovgan is the go-to person in Ukraine for any M&A deal as she is knowledgeable, understands the market and is heavily involved in a transaction or supervises it in a way that it gets done the way it should.”

Legal 500, 2023
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“Tetyana Dovgan is an exceptional corporate lawyer with a very good commercial understanding of issues, not solely on Ukrainian matters.”

Legal 500, 2021
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"Tetyana Dovgan is a guru of Ukrainian M&A. Her vast experience in this area, combined with persistence and diligence, guarantee success for the client."

The Legal 500, 2020

Relevant experience

TIS Group (the owners of the largest private port in Ukraine) on a major joint venture transaction which brought DP World to Ukraine for the first time
Discovery Life Sciences on the acquisition of East West Biopharma, a Ukraine-based human bio-specimen solutions organisation
Acciona Energía on a joint venture transaction with UDP Renewables, a leading investment and development company in the Ukrainian renewable energy industry, in relation to three solar power plants in Ukraine
EBRD, AB Invalda INVL and Horizon Capital on their acquisition of a 41.09% stake in B.C. Moldova Agroindbank S.A, Moldova’s largest commercial bank, at an auction held by Moldova’s Public Property Agency
SD Capital on a major joint venture transaction which brought P&O Maritime to Ukraine for the first time
MV Cargo on the USD 100 million joint venture with Cargill for the construction of a new grain terminal in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Yuzhni
Horizon Capital on the acquisition and subsequent sale of Ciklum, a leading global software engineering and solutions company, to George Soros's Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund LP
Horizon Capital and Zubr Capital on the sale of MTBank, the largest privately owned bank in Belarus
On the acquisition of RBS’s business in Kazakhstan
EBRD on the acquisition of a minority stake in Zabka, one of Poland's leading food retailers
EBRD on its exit from Cantik in Ukraine

Education

2006 – Master of Laws (with distinction), Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 – Bachelor of Laws (with distinction), Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Practice Areas

Corporate / M&A Insolvency & Restructuring

sectors

Private Equity Infrastructure & Projects

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Further reading

CMS advises on high-profile acquisition of a stake in Moldova’s largest bank

CMS advises Horizon Capital and Zubr Capital on the sale of MTBank in Belarus

CMS advises on the acquisition of RBS’s business interests in Kazakhstan

CMS advises on landmark $100m joint venture with Cargill on Black Sea coast of Ukraine

CMS advises EBRD on €25 million equity investment in Żabka

CMS advises on landmark transaction which brings P&O Maritime to Ukraine for the first time

CMS Cameron McKenna welcomes new Senior Associate in Kyiv

CMS advises Scatec Solar on developing solar power plants in Ukraine

CMS advises on sale of Czech branded food producer Hamé

CMS advises on a landmark financing of a new grain terminal construction project in Yuzhni port

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