{"id":769668,"date":"2018-07-25T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-07-25T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:09:44","slug":"vasyl-kisil-i-partnery-uspishno-predstavyly-interesy-pireus-banku-u-verhovnomu-sudi-u-spravi-pro-styagnennya-175-mln-grn-borgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/vasyl-kisil-i-partnery-uspishno-predstavyly-interesy-pireus-banku-u-verhovnomu-sudi-u-spravi-pro-styagnennya-175-mln-grn-borgu\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasil Kisil &#038; Partners Successfully Acted for Piraeus Bank before the Supreme Court to Recover UAH 175 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122980\" src=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Vasil_Kisil_25072018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Vasil_Kisil_25072018.png 1000w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Vasil_Kisil_25072018-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Vasil_Kisil_25072018-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Vasil_Kisil_25072018-650x247.png 650w, https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Vasil_Kisil_25072018-800x304.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attorneys of Vasil Kisil &amp; Partners successfully acted for Piraeus Bank ICB before the Supreme Court in the case relating to the recovery of UAH 175 million from the notorious developer&#8217;s financial surety.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank sued the developer&#8217;s financial surety to recover the amount owed under the loan agreement. The first instance court, whose conclusions the appellate court agreed with, sustained the claim. The financial surety lodged a cassation appeal referring to formal violations of the procedural law made by the first instance court during the trial in absentia.<\/p>\n<p>Vasil Kisil &amp; Partners lawyers defended the Bank in the Supreme Court and proved that formal violations of the procedural law alone may not be the ground to overturn a lawful and justified judgment. The Supreme Court agreed to the attorney&#8217;s arguments and dismissed the surety&#8217;s cassation appeal and consequently upheld the inferior courts&#8217; decisions and resumed their enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The project team that acted for Piraeus Bank before the Supreme Court included partner of dispute resolution practice group <a href=\"http:\/\/vkp.ua\/people\/team\/oleg_i_kachmar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oleg Kachmar<\/a>, senior associate <a href=\"http:\/\/vkp.ua\/people\/team\/yuriy_v_kolos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuriy Kolos<\/a> and associate <a href=\"http:\/\/vkp.ua\/people\/team\/oleksandra_bortman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oleksandra Bortman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Piraeus Bank ICB JSC is a member of the Piraeus Bank international banking group headquartered in Athene, Greece. Founded in 1916, Piraeus Bank is the leading bank in Greece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p>For more details please contact <strong>Olga Shevchenko<\/strong>, PR Manager<br \/>\nTel.: <strong>+380 67 <\/strong><strong>358 47 82<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <strong><a href=\"mailto:shevchenko@vkp.ua\">shevchenko@vkp.ua<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Firm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Established in 1992, Vasil Kisil &amp; Partners is a Ukrainian law firm that delivers integrated legal advice in banking &amp; finance, mergers &amp; acquisitions, capital markets, antitrust, competition and trade, dispute resolution, tax law, energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law, labor and employment law, real estate and construction law, as well as PPP, concessions and infrastructure law. Vasil Kisil &amp; Partners is a member and exclusively represents Ukraine in such international professional associations as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralex.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TerraLex<\/a> (160 law firms in 100 countries), <a href=\"http:\/\/cathayassociates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cathay Associates<\/a> (40 high-profile law firms with over 500 headcount worldwide in 43 major cities and countries across Europe and Asia) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuslaboris.com\/en-gb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ius Laboris<\/a> (1700 labor and employment lawyers in 50 countries). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vkp.ua\/people\/team\/andriy_v_stelmashchuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andriy Stelmashchuk<\/a> is a managing partner of Vasil Kisil &amp; Partners law firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys of Vasil Kisil &amp; Partners successfully acted for Piraeus Bank ICB before the Supreme Court in the case relating to the recovery of UAH 175 million from the notorious developer&#8217;s financial surety. The Bank sued the developer&#8217;s financial surety to recover the amount owed under the loan agreement. The first instance court, whose conclusions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15576,15575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles-en","category-news-and-articles-from-companies-en","company-16219"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}