Legal Awards 2015
Following the well-established tradition of holding the Legal Awards ceremony at the end of spring, Yuridicheskaya Practika Publishing brought together Ukrainian legal society for the ninth ceremony at Premier Palace Hotel in Kiev on 28 May 2015. This year the best law firms and lawyers competed across 30 nominations.
The nomination of applicants lasted till 21 April 2015, while all the nomination forms were considered by the Nomination Commission, which chose the winners via secret ballots.
This year AEQUO law firm was named start-up of the year, while the award for the most dynamic law firm went to Alekseev, Boyarchukov & Partners. Arzinger can be proud of receiving the “Law firm of the year” award. Among the market leaders one should also recognize Baker & McKenzie which became “The best foreign law firm” and received two additional nominations in categories: “Law firm of the year in M&A”, “Law firm of the year in banking & finance”.
The winners by nominations:
Andrey Astapov, managing partner of AstapovLawyers International Law Group, was named “The best lawyer in arbitration”;
“The best lawyer in banking & finance” award went to Nazar Chernyavsky, partner of Sayenko Kharenko;
“The best lawyer in competitive sphere” — Alexey Kot, managing partner of Antika law firm;
Yaroslav Romanchuk, managing partner of International Legal Center EUCON, became “The best lawyer in tax practice”;
“The best lawyer in intellectual property” — Oleksandr Mamunya, partner of AEQUO;
“The best litigator”— Artem Stoianov, senior partner of LCF;
“The best lawyer in criminal cases” award was received by Vitaliy Serdyuk, partner of AVER LEX;
DLA Piper Ukraine was victorious in the “Law firm of the year in corporate law” nomination;
Asters became “Law firm of the year in competition practice”;
“The best law firm in Intellectual Pro- perty” is Doubinsky & Osharova;
WTS Tax Legal Consulting LLC became “The best law firm in the field of taxation”;
“The best law firm in arbitration” is Sayenko Kharenko;
Jurimex Law Firm received the award in nomination “Law firm of the year in land practice”;
Ilyashev & Partners was awarded in two nominations: “The best law firm in litigation” and “Law firm of the year in labor & employment”;
AVER LEX became “Law firm of the year in business protection”;
Gvozdiy & Oberkovych is currently known as “The best law firm in compliance sphere”;
FCLEX — “The best law firm in work with distressed assets”;
“The best law firm in energy sphere” went to CMS Cameron McKenna;
AstapovLawyers became “The best law firm in agribusiness”;
“The best law firm in medicine and pharmaceuticals” is Arzinger.
ILF (Inyurpolis Law Firm) — “The best law firm in IT”;
Valentyn Gvozdiy, managing partner of Gvozdiy & Oberkovych law firm, became the best partner of the firm, while Interlegal (Odessa) received nomination as “The best regional law firm”;
A special nomination for professional achievements in legal sphere was chosen by Rustam Kolesnik, editor-in-chief of Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly. The award went to Armen Khachaturyan, senior partner of Asters.