Law firm Ario was established in 2010, and prior to 2016 was known as Ario Capital Group. Partners Julian Khorunzhyi and Alexei Voronko began their professional careers with bankruptcy and insolvency, which is now the firm’s principal field of activity. Sergey Kirichenko, together with other partners, are the co-founders of the Association of Anti-crisis Management — one of the first profile organizations acting in Ukraine. Today, just like before, Ario provides legal services on commercial, tax, banking and corporate law, litigation, bankruptcy and enforcement proceedings. In 2015 the Ario team was updated with new members, and a number of practices have been significantly strengthened and expanded, namely criminal practice, government relations and business protection.

One more partner, Yevhen Hrushovets, joined Ario. Yevhen is a well-known successful lawyer who specializes in criminal practice. Yevhen became part of Ario together with his team of lawyers.

Two advisors also joined the Ario team: Vladyslav Gryshchenko and Yevhen Rokytsky. Gryshchenko worked in the Prosecutor’s Office for almost 20 years, including several years in the Prosecutor-General’s Office. As Ario’s advisor, Vladyslav specializes in criminal practice. For the past six years Yevhen Rokytsky worked at World Band Group and is still the head of the International Security Coordination Council (EU) and the International Consortium Coordinator for Economic Security (EU). Yevhen Rokytsky manages the GR-practice in the Ario team.

In a short period of time Ario has been able to achieve noticeable results and gain peer recognition. Ario has been a general partner of the Bar Association of Ukraine since July 2014. Julian Khorunzhyi (No.3 in Leading individuals of bankruptcy by Ukrainian Law Firms 2015.A Handbook for Foreign Clients), as head of the company and professional in the field of insolvency, headed the Coordinating Council of self-regulating organizations of insolvency practitioners, which brings together leading specialized self-regulatory and non-government organizations to introduce common rules and approaches to bankruptcy proceedings in Ukraine.

The recognition of Ario’s team in 2015 was also associated with successful defense of the State of Ukraine’s interests in a case regarding the bankruptcy of Ukrburshtyn — one of the largest legal amber miners in Ukraine. Ario undertook unprecedented defense of the public interest — and saved a strategically important company from bankruptcy and clearance under the control of offshore jurisdictions.

In 2015 the Ario Capital Group joined the Bronze League of Top 50 law firms in Ukraine on the basis of analysis of key performance indicators of the legal market carried out by Yuridicheskaya Practika Publishing.