In collaboration with Ukrainian law firm Arzinger, our webinar will unpack Ukraine's wartime defence-industry boom and the legal rules foreign companies need to navigate to do business in it.
The session will begin by explaining the current market backdrop, looking at Ukraine's naval drone warfare and the losses inflicted on the Black Sea Fleet, the country's Soviet-era industrial base, and Ukroboronprom's transformation into UDI.
We will explore the shift from a closed $5–6B market to the world's #1 arms importer ($64.8B in 2023), the Brave1-driven boom in drones and electronic warfare, and the surge in foreign investment, with 200+ start-ups and over $1.5B raised.
Finally, the Arzinger Defence Group will walk through the rapidly changing legal framework and what this means in practice, covering issues such as merger control and the incoming FDI-screening regime, the temporary MilTech merger exemption, IP and technology licensing, export control, arms procurement and testing, and the preferential regimes available for the MilTech companies.
