{"id":781461,"date":"2023-08-27T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-08-27T21:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:43:45","slug":"aequo-dopomogla-vodafone-ukrayina-prydbaty-frinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/aequo-dopomogla-vodafone-ukrayina-prydbaty-frinet\/","title":{"rendered":"AEQUO Helped Vodafone Ukraine to Acquire Freenet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vodafone Ukraine group acquired Freenet company \u2013 the provider of fixed internet access services under the \u00ab\u041e<sub>3<\/sub>\u00bb brand. The purchase of the company is part of the Vodafone Ukraine&#8217;s strategy to develop convergent services and tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Aequo team that advised on the transaction included M&amp;A partners <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/anna-babych\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Babych<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/michael-lukashenko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Lukashenko<\/a>, antitrust partner <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/sergej-denisenko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sergey Denisenko<\/a>, counsel and leader of Aequo\u2019s IT group <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/mykyta-polatayko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mykyta Polatayko<\/a>, counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/vasyl-mishchenko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vasyl Mishchenko<\/a>, senior associate <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/yevgen-blok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yevgen Blok<\/a>, patent and trademark attorney Iryna Serdyuk, and associates <a href=\"https:\/\/aequo.ua\/en\/lawyers\/chernecova-yevgeniya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yevhenia Chernetsova<\/a>, Vitaliy Savkov, and Marta Demkiv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Freenet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freenet LLC is a national broadband Internet access provider, offering services under the \u00ab\u041e<sub>3<\/sub>\u00bb trademark in the city of Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Kyiv, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi and Chernihiv regions. The company was founded and has been operating in the market since 2008. It builds its network on FTTx and GPON technologies using 10 and 40 gigabit fiber optic lines and modern equipment from leading manufacturers. This allows to provide internet access channel at speeds up to 1 Gbit\/s. The company&#8217;s clients base exceeds 163,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About the firm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aequo is one of Ukraine\u2019s top law firms serving industry leaders in transactional and dispute resolution matters.<\/p>\n<p>Aequo has been named Ukraine Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Europe Awards 2022, the Most Innovative Law Firm of the Year in Ukraine by IFLR Europe Awards 2018, and one of the most innovative law firms in Europe according to the FT Innovative Lawyers 2015-2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>For additional information please contact Director of Marketing and PR Iulia Chervonookaya <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>by e-mail: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:chervonookaya@aequo.ua\"><em>chervonookaya@aequo.ua<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vodafone Ukraine group acquired Freenet company \u2013 the provider of fixed internet access services under the \u00ab\u041e3\u00bb brand. The purchase of the company is part of the Vodafone Ukraine&#8217;s strategy to develop convergent services and tariffs. The Aequo team that advised on the transaction included M&amp;A partners Anna Babych and Michael Lukashenko, antitrust partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":496057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15576,15575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles-en","category-news-and-articles-from-companies-en","company-18845"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781461","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\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}