Ukrainian Law Firms 2017: A Handbook for Foreign Clients (ULF 2017) has honoured Redcliffe Partners by naming it among the top performing law firms in Ukraine for Banking & Finance, Restructuring, Corporate and M&A, Energy & Natural Resources. First published in 2003, the directory provides an in-depth annual review of the Ukrainian legal services market.

Redcliffe Partners is recommended in Banking & Finance and top-ranked in Restructuring practices. The editorial features the firm as “visible on advising large-scale banking and restructuring projects”. Olexiy Soshenko, managing partner and Head of Banking & Finance and Debt Restructuring practices, is listed amongst top-five leading individuals in his area as a practitioner who “receives market recognition for deep involvement in practice”. 

The firm is also ranked in Corporate and M&A and Energy & Natural Resources, with partner Dmytro Fedoruk being praised for his individual professional expertise in these practices. The firm is applauded for “preserving its presence in transactional work and getting mandates from multinational companies”. According to the publication, partner Rob Shantz and counsel Ario Dehghani and Zoryana Sozanska-Matviychuk constitute “the sizeable force” of the practice.

Sergiy Gryshko, partner and Head of the firm’s Dispute Resolution, is recommended in International Arbitration and is referred to as “a vivid arbitration and litigation lawyer”.