Legal support of a foreign company office in Ukraine
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What we offer
- complete registration of a foreign company’s representative office in Ukraine, or support of its individual stages;
- consulting on taxation issues, namely: avoidance of double taxation, application of regular prices and elaboration of optimal tax schemes of interaction between the headquarters and the Ukrainian representative office;
- presence during tax audits of the foreign representative office;
- registration of labor relations with representative office personnel, including legalization of their legal stay in Ukraine, i.e. invitations, service cards, work permits and residence permits;
- obtainment of the necessary permits and approvals in Ukraine (our company provides legal services for obtaining licenses for representative offices);
- other (contractual work, debt collection, tender support, registration of trademarks, communication with law enforcement authorities and other legal services).
Legal service for legal support of representative office of a foreign company in Ukraine
Our law firm has provided legal support for representative offices of foreign companies in Ukraine for more than 10 years.
Oftentimes, a legal support of representative office activities starts from the moment, when the representative office itself is not legalized in Ukraine. This is due to the fact that we advise foreign companies even before entering the Ukrainian market, including offering different options for legal registration of activities in Ukraine.
Service packages offers
- accounting and personnel accounting, payment of taxes and fees (for Head of representative office)
- submission of reports to tax authorities, statistical authorities - profit declaration, financial result report (balance sheet), other necessary accruals and salary payment for the head (optional)
*the package may be offered as part of the representative office liquidation procedure
- calculation and payment of salaries for employees (payroll)
- keeping personnel records
- bookkeeping (for employees), payment of taxes and fees and submission of reports
- consulting on legal issues arising in the course of the representative office's activities
- legal support of contractual work, work with employees and involved persons, corporate issues up to 6 lawyer hours per month
*the cost of the package is set for representative offices with a staff of up to 5 employees. The price of the service will be calculated according to your needs
*the cost of the package does not include the costs of payment of social security and employee salaries
Legal support services for representative offices of foreign companies in Ukraine
Our legal company provides legal support for representative offices of foreign companies in Ukraine for more than 15 years.
Quite often legal support of representative office activity starts before the representative office is legalized in Ukraine. This is due to the fact that we advise foreign companies before they enter the Ukrainian market, including proposing various options of legal registration of their business activity in Ukraine.
Among the possible types of services offered by our company, a foreign representative office can be interested in the following:
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Legal servicing - legal assistance and advice from a lawyer on all legal issues that may arise during the registration or business activity of a representative office. We answer your questions, we help you decide on the legally correct and profitable solutions;
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Payroll - keeping personnel records in the representative office, recording of salaries and other payments to employees, maintenance of documents, which relate to personnel records of the representative office in Ukraine;
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Accounting - control of business activities through the representative office accounts, we help with withdrawal of funds to the parent company, providing financial assistance, etc;
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Tax Accounting - assistance and support of an accountant, provision of services of the accountant + lawyer.
We also help the representative office to enter the Ukrainian market as a brand, which may include protection of intellectual property rights and other.
Supporting the activities of representative offices of foreign companies, we pay attention to:
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objective understanding of legal risks for a head of the representative office or responsible person, taking into account realities of Ukrainian law enforcement;
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control over compliance with anti-corruption laws of the state of the parent company, as well as the FCPA norms;
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confidentiality of our relations with the Client, and protection of any data obtained as a result of our cooperation (Client’s data are protected by technical means and procedures within the company).
In addition to representative offices, foreign companies often open their subsidiaries in Ukraine. In this case our specialists pay special attention to legal support of transfer pricing.
Terms and cost of legal services for foreign representative offices in Ukraine
The cost of legal services for foreign representative offices is calculated individually on the basis of the competence of the specialists involved and the time spent on the service.
We offer our services in the form of packages which you can see above, or the designated lawyer’s time with hourly payment.
Service times depend on the type of your business activity in Ukraine, the stages your representative office is going through and the complexity of the tasks we face.
We can develop a personal package of services for your foreign company activity through representative office, specifying monthly number of lawyer’s hours, or a fixed set of actions, which our company will provide you per month or per quarter.
Why us
When do representative offices need business support services?
Entering the market of Ukraine, you should think about high-quality legal support if:
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Your business is diverse, and you need answers to questions in many different areas of law: immigration, tax, customs, etc. Such tasks are difficult for an in-house lawyer to handle. But our team of dedicated experts can help.
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The volume of tasks, which require legal control, varies every month, e.g. there is a need in constant, but point-by-point support of a lawyer to answer questions on business activity. In this situation, paying an in-house lawyer can be unprofitable, and having a whole multidisciplinary legal department is as reliable as possible.
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You just enter the Ukrainian market, and you need a range of services to set up all the processes of the representative office, including the organization of accounting, tax optimization, employment of personnel, etc.
Legal support of foreign representative offices in Ukraine with us is a reliable protection of your business in Ukraine, and a simple solution for all your legal problems.
Legal consultation on support of a foreign representative office
If you want to understand what is included in the legal support service for a foreign representative office in Ukraine, please contact us for an introductory consultation. The lawyer will answer the following questions:
- What do legal support services for a foreign representative office include?
- What documents will need to be prepared?
- What is the cost of the service?
- What benefits do our Clients get?
If you order our legal support services for a foreign representative office, the service price includes the cost of introductory consultation.
We offer legal assistance to foreign companies not only at the beginning of their business activity in Ukraine, but also in the process of business development.
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If you are interested in more detailed information about our legal support services for the representative office of a foreign company in Ukraine, please contact us.
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