Healthcare industries, Life sciences and Pharmaceuticals

More about the industry

GOLAW provides a full range of legal assistance on all matters of interest to pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in Ukraine, including manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers of medicines, medical devices and equipment, and health facilities. Providing comprehensive legal support to healthcare establishments, public and charitable organizations in the health sector, we have accumulated extensive experience not only in the regulatory sphere, but also in pricing, public procurement procedures, procurement strategy, and the import of special medical and diagnostic equipment.

Head of practice

Oleksandr Melnyk

Oleksandr Melnyk

Partner, Head of Corporate Law and M&A practice, Attorney at law

Experience

  • Registration of a trade mark

    Follow-up assistance within the scope of the procedure for registration of a trade mark on medical goods of an international pharmaceutical company; filing complaint against rejection of the application on registration of the trade mark due to the erroneously established priority of the application.

  • Protection of the rights to the trade mark

    Protection of the rights of a Swiss pharmaceutical company to the trade mark against its illegal use during distribution and promotion of goods via Internet on Ukraine’s territory

  • Protection of the interests of the client in tax and labor disputes

    Protection of the interests of one of the global leaders of the sector of production of medicines, household goods, and healthcare and hygiene goods in disputes with tax authorities as regards accrual of additional tax liabilities totalling over 20 million UAH, including labor dispute with a former top manager of the claimant.

  • Protection of the client's interests in tax disputes

    Protection of the interests of a global leader on the market of distribution of medical goods in a dispute with tax authorities as regards recognition illegal and cancellation of tax notifications-resolutions for a total amount exceeding 50 million UAH.

  • Advising during investigation of corruption-related incidents at the company

    Advisory services to a global leader of the sector of production of medicines, household goods, and healthcare and hygiene goods during investigation of corruption-related incidents at the company. Issue of explanations, policy and advisory assistance on documenting formal results of such investigations.

  • Protection of the interests of the client in case of hampering the process of re-registration of the medicines

    Protection of the interests of a global leader in the sector on production of medicines and household goods to detect the sources of leakage of commercial information subsequently used to hamper the process of re-registration of the medicines made by the company.

Key lawyers

Dr. Valentyn Gvozdiy
  • Managing Partner, Attorney at law, PhD
Kateryna Manoylenko
  • Partner, Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, Attorney at law
Pavlo Loginov
  • Partner, Head of Antitrust and Competition practice, Attorney at law
Igor Glushko
  • Partner, Head of Criminal Law and White Collar Defence practice, Attorney at law
Kateryna Tsvetkova
  • Partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, Attorney at law

Testimonials

Vitaliy Vantsa

CEO
MERCATOR MEDICAL LLC

Mercator Medical LLC has been cooperating with GOLAW Law Firm for more than 10 years. The company’s team professionally resolves the entire list of tasks and challenges facing our business. The lawyers of the firm are proactive in adopting the best possible strategy and its successful implementation in every single project. The company provides high-quality legal advice to Mercator Medical on a wide range of regulatory issues, including: certification of our products, compliance assessment support of medical and protective products with the requirements of technical regulations and general issues of circulation of medical products in Ukraine.

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