Igor Svechkar and Alexey Pustovit, Asters partners, have been named among the top global antitrust experts in Who's Who Legal Competition 2017 Future Leaders, the first WWL's listing of the lawyers and economists believed by their peers to be the upcoming stars of the global competition community. The Future Leaders 2017 lists 3 partners from Ukraine, 2 of them from Asters.

Who's Who Legal: Competition 2017 publication is the fruit of months of the most thorough survey work that canvassed the opinions of law firm clients and competition lawyers from around the world. The Who's Who's research has revealed 372 outstanding partners from over 200 firms across 45 different countries who can truly be considered leaders in Competition. Nominees have been selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.

Who’s Who Legal editor Rupert Wilson said: “This is our most comprehensive and thoroughly researched competition publication yet, with thousands more votes and recommendations received compared to last year. We are hugely grateful to the lawyers, clients, experts and other market sources whose invaluable feedback helped to identify the foremost practitioners in the field.”

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Asters' attorneys have profound knowledge and vast experience in the entire spectrum of antitrust issues that includes merger cases, concerted practices, abuse of dominance, unfair competition, etc. With 18 lawyers in the antitrust/competition team, our practice is the biggest in Ukraine. Asters Partners Igor Svechkar, Alexey Pustovit and Oleksandr Voznyuk are the leading practitioners in this area and represent Ukrainian and foreign clients in the most complicated and high-profile transactions and antitrust investigations. Asters lawyers closely interact and cooperate with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and are very active in the legal and academic community – in particular, Oleksandr Voznyuk is a Co-Chair of Competition Commission of ICC Ukraine, while Igor Svechkar is the chairman of the Competition Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association.