Redcliffe Partners is pleased to announce that Anastasia Usova joins the firm’s Antitrust team as counsel and Head of the Antitrust practice.

Anastasia focuses on complex antitrust matters, including abuse of dominance, cartels, commercial and pricing practices. She also assists clients with merger notifications in Ukraine, and has experience in the coordination of multi-jurisdictional merger filings in the CIS and the EU.

In addition, Anastasia deals with unfair competition issues, such as misleading advertising. She helps clients conduct business efficiently while mitigating the risk of violating antitrust and competition laws. In particular, she guides international and Ukrainian companies through the development of competition law compliance policies. She also holds training sessions for their employees on a wide range of antitrust and competition issues.

Anastasia works across many sectors, including pharmaceuticals and healthcare, food and beverage, FMCG and retail.

“Anastasia is a great addition to the firm”, says Redcliffe’s Managing Partner Olexiy Soshenko. “She brings in a good skill set that will help boost our antitrust and competition capabilities to better serve our clients. Her experience provides a 360-degree view of a real business’ needs in antitrust advice and covers transactional, litigation and compliance areas.”

“Redcliffe has a renowned and highly experienced international team”, says Anastasia. “I admire the high-profile work coming out of the firm’s core business advisory and litigation practices. I am honoured to join this busy and ethical firm. I look forward to delivering results for clients by enhancing antitrust representation and further elevating the level of client service.”

Anastasia previously worked with antitrust practices of leading law firms in Ukraine and Belgium. She received her Master’s degree in International and European Business Law from the University of Strasbourg and a degree in law from the Institute of Economics and Law of Kyiv National Linguistic University. She is a member of the Ukrainian Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Ukraine) and a member of the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA).