The 2013 edition of the world’s largest legal referral guide The Legal 500 – Europe, Middle East & Africa recommends Arzinger Law Office in six practice areas for Ukraine and gives individual acknowledgements to its eight lawyers as market leaders and legal experts for the region.

Arzinger sustains its strong position among the leading law firms in Ukraine and EMEA region for Banking, finance and capital markets, Corporate and M&A, Dispute resolution, Intellectual property, real estate and construction, and Tax.

It is recognized as a second tier firm in banking, finance and capital markets practice having a ‘responsive, professional, pragmatic and commercial’ team comprised of Timur Bondaryev (Managing Partner), who shows‘strong, pragmatic leadership’, and of ‘diligent, detailed and very pleasant’ Oleksander Plotnikov (Counsel).

Within Real estate and construction the guide notes that Arzinger is ‘accurate and professional but with the pragmatism needed to piece together deals in Ukraine’, while Timur Bondaryev, Managing Partner and Head of Real Estate practice is ‘excellent, solution-driven and provides tailor-made advice’.

Arzinger’s expertise in Dispute resolution is traditionally highly ranked by the guide. The firm is ‘well known for arbitration’, provides ‘astute solutions’ and is ‘extremely helpful in court disputes’. Individual recognitions received Sergiy Shklyar(Founding Partner and Head of Litigation), experienced ADR practitioner Markian Malskyy (Partner, Head of ADR practice), and Timur Bondaryev (Managing Partner).

Partners Maksym Cherkasenko and Timur Bondaryev feature in the Corporate and M&A chapter of the guide. In particular, it is stressed that the Corporate and M&A team at Arzinger ‘gives practical and understandable advice’ and German and English speaker Timur Bondaryev has ‘a “Western” way of thinking and excellent knowledge – top notch’.

This year Arzinger’s Tax team strengthened its position and got its fairly earned second place in the ranking. The firm is highly recommended for tax disputes and advisory work, thanks to Pavlo Khodakovsky, Sergiy Shkylar and Wolfram Rehbock.

The guide highly recommends Arzinger in Intellectual property. Sergiy Shkylar’s team has a growing workload including advising an international toy maker and a well-known sports car manufacturer. The firm’s recently recruited Anton Polikarpov is praised among the leading legal experts in intellectual property.

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