Kyiv, Ukraine, 09 December 2015 – Baker & McKenzie’s Kyiv Office is top ranked (Tier 1) in all areas listed by the 2016 edition of IFLR-1000 for Ukraine - Banking and Finance, Energy and Infrastructure and Mergers & Acquisitions.

In addition, the Kyiv Office’ Partners are named Leading Lawyers in Ukraine in several practice areas: Serhiy Chorny in Banking, Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization, and Project Finance; Serhiy Piontkovsky - in M&A, Project Development, and Real Estate Finance; Viacheslav Yakymchuk - in Private Equity, Restructuring and Insolvency; Ihor Olekhov - in Restructuring and Insolvency, Financial Restructuring, Capital Markets: Debt and M&A; Olyana Gordiyenko - in M&A and Private Equity. Senior Associate Andriy Nikiforov ranked as a Rising Star in Capital Markets by the Directory.

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The IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. Its first rankings were published in 1990 and it currently researches over 120 jurisdictions worldwide. The law firm rankings are based on three key criteria: transactional evidence from the last 12 months of work, peer and client feedback conducted by means of online feedback surveys and phone and face-to-face interviews.

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