Legal Awards 2013 Winners announced
The seventh Annual Legal Awards ceremony, a project of Yuridicheskaya Practika Publishing, was held on 28 May 2013 in the Hyatt Regency Kiev Hotel. Legal Awards 2013 were presented in 30 nominations, both corporate and individual. The winners are:
Best in-house lawyer – Yakov Voronin, deputy chairman of board of Ukrgasvydobuvannya Public Company
Best banking & finance lawyer – Serhiy Chorny, co-managing partner of Kiev office of Baker & McKenzie
Best real estate lawyer – Natalia Kochergina, partner of DLA Piper Ukraine
Best tax lawyer – Valentyn Gvozdiy, managing partner of Gvozdiy & Oberkovych
Best competition lawyer – Antonina Yaholnyk, partner of Astapov Lawyers
Best intellectual property lawyer – Alexander Pakharenko, partner of Pakharenko & Partners
Best litigation lawyer – Yuriy Petrenko, partner of Spenser & Kauffmann
Best criminal law lawyer – Yaroslav Zeikan, private practice attorney
Best arbitration lawyer – Yuliya Chernykh, partner of ARBITRADE
Best lawyer conducting cases at the European Court of Human Rights – Andriy Kristenko, associate partner of ILF
Best legal department of state agency – department of legal supplement of NJSC Nadra Ukrayny
Best legal department of industrial company – legal service of Metinvest
Best legal department of trade company – legal service of Fozzy Group
Corporate law firm of the year – Baker & McKenzie
Competition law firm of the year – Sayenko Kharenko
M&A law firm of the year – Asters
Intellectual property firm of the year – Doubinsky & Osharova
Taxation law firm of the year – Jurimex
Arbitration law firm of the year – Integrites
Real estate law firm of the year – Arzinger
Litigation law firm of the year – Ilyashev & Partners
Banking and finance law firm – Avellum Partners
Problem assets law firm – LCF Law Group
Best partner of a law firm – Oleksiy Didkovskiy
Law firm “Discovery of the year” – AverLex
Law firm “Breakthrough of the year” – International Legal Center EUCON
Regional law firm of the year – Dnepropetrovsk-based Dynasty Law Firm
Foreign law firm of the year – CMS Cameron McKenna
Law firm of the year – Sayenko Kharenko
The choice of Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly chief editor Rustam Kolesnik “For outstanding professional achievements” went to Vasil Kisil, a senior partner of Vasil Kisil & Partners.