SYTNYK & PARTNERS, Attorneys at Law, advised JT International Holding B.V. (Amstelveen, the Netherlands) in obtaining a merger clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine in connection with acquisition of shares in Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Germany GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Japan K.K. (Tokyo, Japan), Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Italy S.r.l. (Rome, Italy) and SFR Tobacco International GmbH (Zürich, Switzerland), that confers more than 50% of the voting rights in the highest management body of each of the company.

The team advising in this project was led by Managing Partner Denys Sytnyk and consisted of Senior Associate Liudmyla Gorodnycha and Associate Anna Synytsya.

Internationally (outside Japan and China), Japan Tobacco Group is active in manufacturing and sale of factory-made cigarettes and other tobacco products including roll-your-own and make-your-own tobacco, snus, and cigarillos.

The companies in which shares are subject to the sale and purchase operate the business of the development, design, manufacture, packaging, labelling and/or production of tobacco and tobacco-related products for delivery, sale, resale, distribution, marketing and/or promotion under the NAS brand outside the United States.

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