Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner at Arzinger, Head of Life Science.

Timur is a highly respected practitioner enjoying an excellent reputation in the local and international markets. He is recommended by Legal Experts EMEA 2012, Chambers Europe, Who’s Who Legal: CIS, The Legal 500 EMEA.

Recent transactions:

• Legal advice of major pharma companies on legal and tax structuring and restructuring their Ukrainian activities, conducting activities through repoffice vs. legal entity, legal support of the entire business transfer from representative office to a legal entity;
• Legal advice of major pharma companies on (unfair) advertisement and promotion issues, representation of interests before Ukrainian antitrust authority in a complex antitrust investigation related to unfair competition practices;
• Complex tax and legal compliance review of promotional and advertisement activities for OTC and RX products, cosmetics and medical devices for major generic and innovative public pharmaceutical companies;
• Legal advice on public procurement issues, court challenge of unlawful public tenders, initiation of remedies to prevent participation of generic companies in a public tender with a product, infringing the IP rights of a major innovative pharmaceutical company;
• Ongoing legal advice on data protection, compliance and anticorruption issues;
• Acted as a local council for global law firms on the Ukrainian part of numerous foreign – to foreign M&A of global pharmaceutical businesses, – extensive legal due diligence of Ukrainian entities, antitrust clearance with the local Antimonopoly Committee, R&W and CP review and confirmation, post transactional integration and restructuring;
• Complex legal advice for a generic company on authorization of medicinal products in the light of legal protection of valid patents, data exclusivity of original medicines;
• Legal and tax structuring of the manufacturing localization in Ukraine for a major pharmaceutical company in anticipation of Import substitution concept;
• Price registration for medicinal products.