Kyiv, Ukraine, 16 June 2016 ‒ The Kyiv office of Baker & McKenzie has been highly ranked and recommended by the 2016 edition of Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients, an annual in-depth survey of the legal market of Ukraine.

10 practice areas of the Kyiv office - Banking & Finance, Restructuring, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Energy & Natural Resources, Intellectual Property, Labour & Employment, Pharmaceuticals/Medicine & Healthcare, Real Estate & Construction, Restructuring, and Tax - are ranked in the top five firms.

Also, eight lawyers of the Kyiv office are highly recommended by the handbook. Managing Partner Serhiy Chorny is listed among the Authorities in Banking & Finance and Capital Markets, and named a Leading Individual in Restructuring. Managing Partner Serhiy Piontkovsky is acknowledged as a Leading Individual in Real Estate & Construction. Partner Viacheslav Yakymchuk is distinguished as a leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A, Partner Hennadiy Voytsitskyi is included in the top three professionals in Tax. Partners ranked as leading are: Ruslan Drobyazko in Intellectual Property, Lina Nemchenko in Real Estate & Construction and Olyana Gordiyenko in Energy & Natural Resources and Counsel Mariana Marchuk in Labour & Employment.

The directory also mentions 12 partners as notable practitioners: Serhiy Piontkovsky in Energy & Natural Resources, Hennadiy Voytsitskyi  in Transfer Pricing, Oksana Simonova in Antirust/Competition, Ruslan Drobyazko in IT, Ihor Olekhov in Banking & Finance/Restructuring and Energy & Natural Resources, Ihor Siusel in Bankruptcy, International Arbitration, and Litigation, Olyana Gordiyenko in Corporate/M&A. Of our counsels, Yuriy Zaluskyy is a notable expert in Tax: Consulting, Mariana Marchuk and Olha Demianiuk in Pharmaceuticals/Medicine & Healthcare. Senior Associates Yuliya Kolchenko and Oleksiy Stolyarenko are listed as notable practitioners in Intellectual Property.

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Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients has been published in English annually since 2003 and has gained a reputation for being a reliable market guide to top law firms and practitioners in Ukraine.

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