MORIS’s Defence & Miltech practice combines multidisciplinary expertise to deliver tailored solutions for the industry’s unique challenges.

Backed by seasoned professionals, we advise domestic and international clients through strategic, forward-looking guidance—helping them navigate the evolving defence and miltech landscape with confidence.

Our services:

• Business establishment in Ukraine
• Local and international M&A and joint ventures
• Legal support for R&D projects
• Corporate and tax structuring
• Competition and Antitrust
• Regulatory requirements, operating permits
• Import/customs controls
• Government contracts and procurements
• Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance
• Compliance for dual-use items, weapons, and ammunition
• Transactions for the supply of ammunition, weapons, and dual-use goods
• Obtaining accreditation for demining operators
• Advising on the certification process for demining equipment
• Securing ownership of technology and IP rights
• Construction and setting-up production matters
• Dispute resolutions
• Guidance to businesses operating under martial law in Ukraine: critical enterprise designation, mobilization legislation compliance

Our experience:

• Legal assistance on R&D project for aerial weapon systems
• Supporting corporate and commercial matters for rocket ammunition producers
• Comprehensive legal support to armored vehicle repair factory
• Securing IP rights for defense technologies, including situational awareness systems, electronic warfare solutions, and battle management platforms
• Facilitating the procurement, import, and delivery of critical military equipment
• Advising demining companies on antitrust compliance
• Drafting and negotiating complex contracts, including: RDX explosives supply agreements, exclusive agency deals for mass notification and electronic security services, purchase and delivery contracts for grenade launchers and other kinds of arms
• Providing legal support to military units and strategic initiatives in the defence sector.
• Legal support for local companies on application of Ukraine’s mobilization legislation and critical enterprise designation

Special case

Represented General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces (2021–2024), in securing a $1 million inheritance from a Ukrainian-American donor to support military initiatives.

Our differentiators:

• over a decade of specialized experience in defense and military;
• seamless cross-functional team – combining: lawyers who are well-known leaders in dispute resolution, corporate and M&A, taxes, real estate matters, and antitrust, whose expertise is recognized by numerous national and international rankings. The team also includes a Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, active serviceman and also a former NATO training mission team member;
• experience of lasting and direct collaboration with the army.