Diana Malysh is a Senior Associate in the Kyiv office. She focuses on real estate & construction matters, as well as infrastructure and energy sectors.

Diana has gained extensive experience in real estate & construction, including real estate due diligence; lease, acquisition and construction agreements; public procurement and tender procedures; negotiations with land owners, state and local authorities; construction regulatory matters.

Diana also assists clients across the full spectrum of regulatory and commercial matters in energy renewables and oil & gas sectors.

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING

Infrastructure & Transportation

• QTERMINALS, a leading Qatari port operator, in the largest port concession project in Ukraine – concession of Black Sea Port of Olvia
• IFC on the analysis of a regulatory framework for the project of establishing a transport leasing platform in Ukraine
• AUTOMAGISTRAL-PIVDEN (AMP) on the first unsolicited proposal with regard to EUR 2.5 bln Krakovets-Lviv-Brody-Rivne motorway project on a PPP basis

Real Estate & Construction

• SHANGHAI ELECTRIC with respect to various construction regulatory matters in Ukraine, contributing to a market entry report covering, among other things, obtaining construction licensing and construction permits, environmental matters and EPC contracts
• GIZ on structuring of the project of reconstruction of 25 demolished social infrastructure objects in 22 localities in Ukraine, financing and development of the design documentation for the reconstruction of such objects in Ukraine by GIZ and its contractors and its further transfer to municipalities and other customers in Ukraine
• A LEADING INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS SUPPLIER TO THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY on a lease agreement for the production facilities of a Ukrainian armoured vehicle manufacturing plant

Energy & Natural Resources

• TETRA TECH ES and THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY OF UKRAINE on the analysis of the status of transposition of EU energy acquis to the Ukrainian legislation, identifying gaps and providing recommendations on their further transposition into the domestic law as required by the Association Agreement and Energy Community
• UKRENERGO with regards to early termination of a contract for modernization of Nivky substation and related USD 2.35 million construction dispute with a Spanish contractor in Stockholm
• METINVEST, a Ukrainian international vertically integrated mining and metallurgical group of companies, on land due diligence, regulatory and environmental issues related to mining tailing facilities

EDUCATION

• 2021: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Faculty of Law, Master's degree
• 2019: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Faculty of Law, Bachelor's degree

LANGUAGES

Ukrainian, Russian, English