Sayenko Kharenko advises Auchan, one of the world's largest food retailers, on various Ukrainian law issues, including real estate investment issues, regulatory, land, criminal, criminal-procedural matters. Sayenko Kharenko's team also represents the Client's interests before the state and local authorities, law enforcement authorities, public councils, working groups and commissions within the projects implementation.

Auchan Retail Ukraine is the Ukrainian subsidiary of the French food retailer Auchan. Founded in 1961 in France, Groupe Auchan operates in 14 countries, including the EU, China, Taiwan, Senegal. It is structured into 3 core businesses:  hypermarkets, supermarkets, and e-commerce. Auchan Retail Ukraine  was opened in March 2007. The first supermarket was launched in Kiev in 2008. Today, Auchan Retail Ukraine employs more than 3 800 people. 

Sayenko Kharenko team advising on the project includes counsel Sergiy Smirnov, senior associate Anastasiya Bidakh, associate Kuzma Pozychaniuk and is led by partner Sergey Pogrebnoy.


Sayenko Kharenko enjoys global reputation as a leading Ukrainian law firm with an internationally oriented full-service practice. The firm's leading market position builds on continuous excellence of its highly specialized practice teams. During the past two years, Sayenko Kharenko collected three of the most prestigious professional excellence country awards, including Law Firm of the Year by IFLR European Awards 2015, Who's Who Legal European Awards 2015 and Chambers Europe Award for Excellence 2015. Most recently, Sayenko Kharenko was crowned Ukraine Law Firm of the Year by Who's Who Legal 2016, and shortlisted for Russia, Ukraine & the CIS category by The Lawyer European Awards 2016 and Ukraine Law Firm of the Year category by Chambers Europe Awards 2016.

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