Vasil Kisil& Partners successfully defended the interests of a Ukrainian subsidiary ofa major international tobacco company in a dispute with the tax authoritiesregarding alleged violations of Ukrainian legislation on licensing of wholesaletrade of tobacco products. The amount of fines was equal to 137 million USdollars. 

VKP’s lawyers were ableto successfully resolve this dispute in trial court, as well as appellate andSupreme Administrative Courts of Ukraine. The Supreme Administrative Court ofUkraine did not allow the tax authority to bring the case for review before theSupreme Court of Ukraine.

Lead engagement partnerAndriyStelmashchuk noted that the taxauthorities mistakenly believed that the company unlawfully had not listed IDcodes and location of branches that according to the tax authoritiesindependently sold tobacco products in the addendum to the license for wholesale trade of tobacco products.

VKP’s team that defended the interests of the internationaltobacco company was led by partner AndriyStelmashchuk and included managing partner OlegMakarov, senior counsellor VadymBelyanevych and associate TetyanaMatsyuk.

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For more details please contact Klaudia Shevelyuk,Business Development Director
Tel.: +380 44 581 7777

E-mail: pr@vkp.kiev.ua

About the Firm

Established in 1992, VasilKisil & Partners is a Ukrainian law firm that deliversintegrated legal advice in banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions,capital markets, antitrust, competition and trade, dispute resolution, tax law,energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law, labor andemployment law, real estate and construction law, as well as PPP, concessionsand infrastructure law. Vasil Kisil & Partners is a member of suchinternational professional associations as TerraLex, IBA, and Ius Laboris.

The firm`s clients include such world-known companiesas Air Liquide, Alfa Bank (Ukraine), Alpcot Agro, Ardagh, Arricano, Astellas Pharma, Bayer Consumer, BNP Paribas, British American Tobacco, Central European Media Enterprises, Coca Cola, Credit Agricole Group, Hubei Changyang Hongxin Industrial Group, Danone, Dell Inc., DuPont, EBRD, Ericsson, Energy Standard Group, Eurosport, Ferrexpo AG, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Inditex Group, LG Electronics, MTS, Moody’s, NCH Capital, Opel, Philips, Pireaus Bank, Red Bull, Samsung, Sberbank of Russia, Seven Hills, Shell, Shelton Petroleum, Sony Corp, St. Sophia Homes, Swedbank AB, Tchibo, Thomson Reuters, Ukrsibbank, UniCredit Group, Uniqa, Utair, Vanco International / Vanco Energy, Volkswagen, YouTube, etc.