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TOP 10 RISING STARS
Anna Babych
Position: partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners.
Practices: corporate and mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and competition, capital markets.
Age: 29
Experience: 10 years
Education: National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, 2005. BPP Law School, GDL, 2012
Biggest strengths and achievements: Organizing skills developed to the level where I can successfully combine partnership, client care work, ongoing studying in law school in London and pro-bono work in Kyiv.
Biggest strengths and achievements: Organizing skills developed to the level where I can successfully combine partnership, client care work, ongoing studying in law school in London and pro-bono work in Kyiv.
Clients: Danone group, UkrMediaHolding, MTC Ukraine, Arricano group, SEB group, Ucrafarma group and many others.
Maksym Cherkasenko
Position: partner at Arzinger.
Practices: corporate, mergers and acquisitions, real estate & construction, energy.
Age: 35
Experience: 14 years.
Education: Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko National University, Faculty of Law – 1994-1999. The National University of Economics of Kyiv, Faculty of Finance – 1993-1998. Ukrainian School of Political Studies – 2011.
Biggest strengths and achievements: Advised on many successfully implemented M&A and business restructuring projects, privatization and insolvency procedures. Among them, the acquisition of a petrol stations network and petroleum-storage depots, restructuring of TNK-BP Ukraine, including bankruptcy of the Lysychansk oil refinery plant, full-scale legal support in the merger of milk market leaders – Galychyna and Kovelmoloko.
Clients: Rosatom, Cadogan Petroleum; China Minmetals, EVRAZ Group, Lafarge Gypsum; Ukrainian Development Company, Budhouse, Marti Holding, Strabag; Galychina, AGRICULTURE – Suntrade; Porshe Holding, Johnson Controls, Shwarzmuller, Scania.
Nazar Chernyavsky
Position: partner at Sayenko Kharenko.
Practices: international finance, debt restructuring, capital markets, intellectual property.
Age: 29
Experience: 11 years.
Education: Master of laws degree from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University School of International Law; Intercollegiate LL.M. program at Queen Mary College of the University of London.
Biggest strengths and achievements: recognized in banking and finance by The Legal 500, IFLR 1000, PLC Which Lawyer?, The Best Lawyers International; ranked among top five in Capital Markets & Securities by Ukrainian Law Firms 2012 by Yuridicheskaya Practika.
Clients: BNP Paribas, Citibank, Credit Suisse, EBRD, Ferrexpo, Gazprombank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Bank, UBS, UkrSibbank, Visa, VTB Capital
Olyana Gordiyenko
Position: counsel at the Kyiv office of Baker & McKenzie.
Practices: corporate and mergers and acquisition.
Age: 30
Experience: 11 years
Education: Olyana received her master’s of law degree from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University in 2004.
Biggest strengths and achievements: Gordiyenko is acting for international investors and corporations in domestic and cross-border corporate/M&A transactions within and outside of Ukraine. She has been concentrating recently on the private equity front as well as has been engaged in public M&A and oil & gas transactions as well, which are mainstream at the moment.
Clients: EastOne, Cadogan Petroleum plc, Advent International, Horizon Capital, PepsiAmericas, Inc and PepsiCo, Austrian Airlines, Aerosvit Airlines, L.I.T.A.T. Group, CJSC “YUZHNO-OKTYABRSKI GLYNY “YUG”, Fortis, AIG Life, Donbas Clays, MTC.
Oleh Malskyy
Position: partner with AstapovLawyers International Law Group.
Practices: mergers and acquisitions, corporate and antitrust.
Age: 33
Experience: 11 years
Education: Lviv National University (Ukraine), the World Trade Institute (Switzerland) and Georgetown University (USA).
Biggest strengths and achievements: They are systematic targeted efforts and strategic thinking. Most remarkable achievement is M&A Practice development through three crisis years. As a result AstapovLawyers was named M&A Law Firm of 2012 by the Legal Awards (Yuridicheskaya Practika/Kommersant).
Clients: British American Tobacco, Baxter, Danone, Nemiroff, Marshall Capital, Concorde Capital, Pepsico.
Oleh Marchenko
Position: managing partner at Ulysses.
Practices: tax, banking & finance, dispute resolution.
Age: 38
Experience: 15 years
Education: Law Degree from National Economic University; Degrees in Sociology and Economics from National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
Biggest strengths and achievements: adhering to integrity, skills and diligence in practicing law in Ukraine and avoiding “shortcuts” practices is a great challenge for the legal community, national or international. Ulysses is determined to meet this challenge even if it comes at a short-term disadvantage.
Clients: AAK, Aspen, Astelit, Avaya, Bayer, Citibank, DCH, Gambro, Hilti, Lafarge, Medoff, Microsoft, Swiss Life, Teva, UkrSibbank (Paribas), UniCredit, Viterra.
Vitaliy Radchenko
Position: senior associate at CMS Cameron McKenna, Kyiv.
Practice: energy and projects.
Age: 29
Experience: 9 years
Education: Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, Civil and International Private Law, Master of Law, 2005.
Biggest strengths and achievements: Profound in-depth understanding of technical and regulatory aspects of various industries within energy sector. In recent years worked for a number of major international oil and gas companies on a few most significant deals in Ukraine’s natural gas and renewable energy sectors.
Clients: could not disclose.
Olexiy Soshenko
Position: counsel at the Kyiv office of Clifford Chance.
Practice: banking and finance.
Age: 41
Experience: 15 years
Education: Graduated with a degree in law from National Law Academy of Ukraine in 1996, and received an L.L.M. degree from the State University of Minnesota Law School in 1997.
Biggest strengths and achievements: Soshenko has a significant experience of practicing law in Ukraine representing both lending institutions and borrowers in various types of financings including project finance, real estate financings, acquisition finance and pre-export finance, as well as M&A transactions in the banking sphere. Olexiy is recommended as a leading expert in major legal directories including Chambers Global and Europe, IFLR 1000, Legal 500.
Clients: EBRD, IFC, Sberbank of Russia, ING Bank N.V, UniCredit Bank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, UBS, FUIB, Prominvestbank.
Andriy Stelmashchuk
Position: partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners.
Practices: dispute resolution, tax.
Age: 30
Experience: 10 years
Education: Master’s degree in Law from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2005.
Biggest strengths and achievements: They are my colleagues, with whom I achieve high results, whom I consider professionals of a high level, whom I can rely on in any professional questions.
Clients: Shell, BNP Paribas, Sberbank of Russia, Banka Citadele, Swedbank.
Oksana Voynarovska
Position: partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners.
Practices: labor and employment, litigation, private client.
Age: 33
Experience: 11 years
Education: Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 2001.
Biggest strengths and achievements: partnership in a law firm number one in Ukraine.
Clients: Google, Coca Cola, Phillips, Thompson Reuters.
Kyiv Post staff writer Oksana Faryna can be reached at [email protected].
