Vasil Kisil & Partners is strengthening its leading position on the Ukrainian legal market according to the recently published Chambers Global 2012 Guide, an internationally-recognized annual directory. The firm has once again secured its high rankings in Dispute Resolution, Corporate and M&A practices for 2012 and five of its lawyers have received individual rankings.

In particular, the publication ranked Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm as number 1 Ukrainian law firm in Dispute Resolution, praising Oleksiy Filatov, Head of Litigation Practice, who is referred to by independent sources as "exceptional, an absolute must, a first port of call for people from common law jurisdictions." Furthermore, the guide’s sources consider managing partner Oleg Makarov to be “a brilliant litigator and an exceptional individual.” He continues to be one of the outstanding practitioners in the field. Vadym Belyanevych, Senior Counsellor with VKP, enjoys a well-deserved reputation as an experienced litigator in civil, commercial and administrative law, and is also an expert on privatisation issues.

Chambers Global 2012 rates VKP’s Corporate and M&A practice in Band 2 for significant achievements of leading partner Denis Lysenko and senior partner Vasyl Kisil in these fields and points out their high professionalism, responsiveness, and deep expertise. Chambers particularly emphasized the recent cross-border work handled by Mr Lysenko that included the Danone-Unimilk joint venture and several banking M&A transactions. Due to such  consistent domestic and international successes Vasil Kisil & Partners continues to maintain and expand its outstanding reputation and implicit leadership in corporate law.

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About the Firm

Established in 1992, Vasil Kisil & Partners is a Ukrainian law firm that delivers integrated legal advice in banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, antitrust, competition and trade, dispute resolution, tax law, energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law, labor and employment law, real estate and construction law, as well as PPP, concessions and infrastructure law.

The firm`s clients include such world-known companies as Alpcot Agro, Africa-Israel Group, Astellas Pharma, BASF, Bayer Consumer, BNP Paribas, British American Tobacco, Central European Media Enterprises, Coca Cola, Credit Agricole Group, Danone, Dell Inc., Du Pont, Energy Standard Group, Eurosport, Google, IKB Deutsche Industriebank, LG Electronics, Leroy Merlin Ukraine, Lukoil, Metso Automation Oy, Moody’s, Mott MacDonald Limited, NCH Capital, Novacke chemicke zavody, Opel, Philips, Pioneer, Red Bull, Russian Standard Bank, St. Sophia Homes, SEB AB, SEB Group, Swedbank AB, Seven Hills, Shell, Standard Charted Bank, Tchibo, UniCredit Group, Vanco International / Vanco Energy, Volkswagen, VympelCom, YouTube.