Our attorneys regularly participate in projects involving legislative drafting. At times, this means that we work as part of multilateral initiatives and technical assistance projects sponsored by foreign governments and international donor-organizations (e.g., the U.S. Departments of Energy, USAID, TACIS). On such projects we collaborate with members of Ukraine's Supreme Rada, Cabinet of Ministers, various ministries, and other government structures to draft novel legislation (for Ukraine), such as the Law "On Production Sharing Agreements" and the subsequent enabling law that implemented it, as well as revisions to existing laws, such as the new version of the Law "On Medicines". At other times, we work for corporate clients and international industry groups. Such efforts, while receiving less press attention, tend to result in at least as much success for our clients. To date, our efforts have contributed considerably to the adoption of a modern and internationally-praised version of the Law "On Copyright and Neighboring Rights", the passage of the new Law "On the State Regulation of Optical Media", the passage of new IPR-related articles for Ukraine's Criminal Code, and the preparation of a draft of Book IV for the revised Civil Code, devoted entirely to intellectual property rights. In addition, we have been active in drafting implementation regulations ("normative acts"), which are usually adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers or various ministries.

The need for our legislative drafting services has undergone significant growth over the past few years, as the Ukrainian government has undertaken serious efforts to modernize its legislation, bring it into conformity with world standards, harmonize it with EU legislation, and to position itself for entry into the WTO. As a result, much novel legislation has been drafted, which has accordingly drawn the attention of several of our clients.