Asters received the Best Law Firm of the Year (Ukraine) Award 2014 grantedby international ranking Who's Who Legal at a black-tie ceremony held inNew-York on 31 March 2014.

The awards recognize firms that score highly from Who's Who independentinternational research taken from clients and private practitioners in over 60jurisdictions. Factors taken into consideration include, for example, thenumber of lawyers from the relevant law firm, the number of the firm's legalpractice areas listed by the publication, the results achieved in previousappraisals and the sum of weighted votes achieved by lawyers from the law firmin question compared with the sum achieved by lawyers from other law firms inthe country in question.

Asters Senior Partner ArmenKhachaturyan who received the award comments: "We are honoured by such recognitionfrom international legal community. It is specially valuable at the time ofchallenges facing Ukraine. It inspires Asters lawyers to further contribute torule of law principles to be re-established in Ukraine and to lead processesfor consolidation of Ukrainian legal market providing clients with top-qualityadvice they deserve at the uneasy time."

Who's Who Legal is a recognized source of information about theinternational legal market, an official research partner of the InternationalBar Association and a strategic partner of the international law section of theAmerican Bar Association. The results of the award are officially published inthe latest issue of TheInternational Who's Who of Business Lawyers.