Metals and mining
PROCTOR supports steel mills, mining and ore processing enterprises and ferroalloy plants. This is the industry with the highest capital intensity and export orientation, sensitive to special subsoil use permits, electricity and transport tariffs, environmental regulation and preparation for CBAM.
Why PROCTOR
In heavy industry the price of a legal mistake is measured in halted workshops and lost export markets. PROCTOR handles subsoil use, trade defence on key markets, tariff disputes and environmental regulation as a single system of risks of the enterprise.
We understand the production logic of the industry: our solutions take account of the continuity of production, collective relations with trade unions and the strategic interests of the owners, not only formal compliance with the law.
Lines of work
- Subsoil useObtaining and extending special permits for subsoil use, challenging the suspension of permits, support of auctions, production sharing agreements.
- Steel exports and trade defenceRepresentation in anti-dumping and safeguard investigations on key markets (the EU, the USA, the Middle East), quotas and tariffs, supply contracts.
- Tariffs and energy supplyDisputes over electricity, transmission and rail transport tariffs, contracts with suppliers of energy resources.
- Environmental regulationEmission permits, environmental tax, environmental impact assessment, defence during inspections by the environmental inspectorate, climate regulation and preparation for CBAM.
- Industrial safety and labour relationsInvestigations of accidents at work, occupational safety, collective agreements with trade unions, mass redundancies.
- Restructuring of assetsSale and purchase of industrial sites, restructuring of the debts of enterprises, protection of assets against seizure in criminal proceedings.
Practices for the industry
The teams of PROCTOR that run matters in this sector.
Competition law and government relations (GR)A practice for companies whose main risk comes from the state as regulator: merger clearances and investigations by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, support during inspections and defence against administrative pressure, and, as a premium layer on top, influence over the rules of the game through lawmaking and advocacy.
Corporate law and M&AThe flagship transactional practice: the legal foundation for owning, running and selling a business. It covers M&A deals, corporate structuring and the protection of owners' interests, together with adjacent areas - employment relations with staff and senior management, and the personal wealth matters of business owners (private clients).
Customs law and international tradeA single product for importers and exporters: from structuring the foreign trade contract to defence against adjustments of the customs value. One client context - goods crossing the border.
Dispute resolution and enforcementThe full cycle of protecting a client's interests in a dispute: national courts of every jurisdiction and instance, international commercial and investment arbitration and, above all, turning a judgment won into money actually recovered.
Tax practiceA standalone practice with the strongest lead generation potential: protecting a business from additional tax assessments, blocked tax invoices and pressure from the tax authorities, together with the lawful optimisation of the tax burden.
Clients from the industry
