09:30-10:00

Registration. Morning coffee

10:00-10:10

Welcome addresses

Anna Ogrenchuk, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Сo-founder and Managing Partner at LCF Law Group

10:10-12:10

SESSION 1. Agricultural land market

Moderator: 

Maksym Maksymenko, Partner at AVELLUM 

10:10-11:05

Topics for discussion:

1. Participation of Ukrainian and foreign players in the agricultural land market
2. Plans of agricultural holdings
3. Lending by banks
4. Legal difficulties with the conclusion of contracts for the alienation of agricultural land
5. Legal and practical possibility of acquiring a preemptive right

Speakers:

• Konstantyn Bushuiev, Deputy General Director for Development at Agro-Region Ukraine LLC
• Volodymyr Igonin, Partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners
• Sergii Kubakh, Land Reform Team Lead at USAID’s Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO)
• Anzheliika Livitska, Counsel at Asters
• Olena Sukmanova, Legal Director, Member of the Board of Directors at Agroholding "Agricultural System Technologies"

Break

11:15-12:10

Topics for discussion:

1. The results of the opening of the agricultural land market
2. Land consolidation
3. Approaches to constraints
4. The price of land
5. Anti-raiding

Speakers:

• Roman Leshchenko, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine 
• Anatolii Miroshnychenko, First Deputy Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (StateGeoCadastre) 
• Viktor Dubovyk, Head of the Anti-Raid Office of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine 
• Roman Slastyon, Director General of the Association “Ukrainian Agribusiness Club” (UCAB)

12:10-12:40

Coffee break

12:40-13:40

SESSION 2. International trade and dispute resolution

Moderator: 

Ivan Kasynyuk, Partner at AGA Partners

Topics for discussion:

1. Value added or increase of trade volume
2. Local and international risks to trade
3. Legislation vs. market
4. GAFTA rules and arbitration for contracts in Ukraine
5. Disputes concerning the harvest

Speakers:

• Ihor Kravtsov, Partner at LCF Law Group

• Orest Matviychuk, an English‑qualified senior associate in the Banking & Finance Practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Ukraine

• Natalia Pylyptseva, Deputy Legal and GR Director of Bunge in Ukraine
• Liliya Timakina, Director for Legal Issues at agro-industrial holding "Astarta-Kyiv"

13:40-14:10

Coffee break

14:10-15:30

SESSION 3. Infrastructure

Moderator: 

Oleg Samus, Partner at Sayenko Kharenko

Topics for discussion:

1. Capital investment in infrastructure
2. Infrastructure challenges of the grain season 2021/2022
3. Irrigation reform
4. Law on Internal water transport
5. Implementation of innovative projects in the agricultural sector - opportunities under the law on "investment nurse"

Speakers:

• Nikolay Gorbachov, President of the Ukrainian Grain Association 
• Anton Sabaleuski, Head of Eastern Europe Consulting DB E.C.O. Group
• Olga Kopiika, Chief Legal Adviser and Government Relations Bunge in Ukraine
• Mykhailo Sokolov, Deputy Chairman of the The “Ukrainian Agrarian Council” Public Union (“UAC” Public Union)
• Yevhen Shakotko, Head of the Legal and Regulatory Policy Department of UkraineInvest

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:20

SESSION 4. Taxation

Moderator: 

Topics for discussion:

1. Amendments to the tax legislation proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the Draft Law №5600 of 02.06.2021 and their impact on agricultural business
2. Ripped exports, scrolls, shadow rent
3. Non-commodity transactions

Speakers:

• Andriy Reun, Partner at LCF Law Group
• Volodymyr Rudnychenko, Security Manager Eastern Europe ADM UKRAINE LLC
• Mykhailo Sokolov, Deputy Chairman of the The “Ukrainian Agrarian Council” Public Union (“UAC” Public Union)
• Dmytro Fedechko, Head of Legal at Louis Dreyfus Company Ukraine

Closing of the conference 

Networking