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Tetyana Dovgan

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
6th Floor,
38 Volodymyrska Street,
01054 Kyiv
Ukraine
Languages Ukrainian, English, Russian

Tetyana Dovgan is a Corporate/M&A Partner in the Kyiv office of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, 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.

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

Legal 500, 2024

“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

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

Legal 500, 2021

"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
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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

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30/10/2018
CMS advises on high-profile acquisition of a stake in Moldova’s largest...
CMS in Kyiv is pleased to announce that it has advised the EBRD and private equity firms AB Invalda INVL and Horizon Capital (the "consortium") on their acquisition of a 41.09% stake in B.C. Moldova Agroindbank...
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CMS advises Horizon Capital and Zubr Capital on the sale of MTBank in Belarus
CMS Kyiv acted for Horizon Capital and Zubr Capital in relation to the sale of MTBank, the largest private bank in Belarus and one of the fastest growing banks in the country. Horizon Capital and Zubr...
01/04/2015
CMS advises on the acquisition of RBS’s business interests in Kazakhstan
CMS has advised Orifjan Shadiyev, a prominent businessman and owner of Capital Bank Kazakhstan, on the acquisition of RBS’s business in Kazakhstan (RBSK). The sale is subject to approval by the National...

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