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Asters

Address:
Leonardo Business Center,
19-21 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, 14th Floor, Kiev
Tel.:
+380 44 230 6000
Fax:
+380 44 230 6001

Asters is a full-service independent national law firm that has maintained a strong presence in Ukraine since 1995. The firm provides efficient transactional legal advice and represents clients on a broad spectrum of matters arising in the course of doing business in Ukraine.

For five consecutive years Asters has been ranked No.1 Law Firm in Ukraine according to the Annual Top 50 Leading Law Firms of Ukraine 2011–2015 conducted by the Yuridicheskaya Practika Weekly. Asters was the winner of the 2015 and 2014 Law Firm of the Year: Ukraine and the CIS award by The Lawyer, Ukraine Law Firm of the Year 2014 award by Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Europe 2012 Client Service Law Firm of the Year award and a two-time holder of the International Law Office Client Choice Awards for Ukraine.

Asters offers a full range of legal services and maintains a high reputation for its expertise in a wide array of practices, such as banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and M&A, competition and antitrust, dispute resolution, energy and resources, environment, family law, intellectual property, international trade, labor and employment, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, taxation, telecommunications, and white collar crime.

Shell, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, L’Oreal Ukraine, GlaxoSmithKline, The Boeing Company, Siemens AG, S.C. Johnson & Son, Nokia Corporation, Sopharma, General Electric Energy, Glencore International AG, Deer & Co, Kodak Health Group, ED & F Man, Marathon Oil, News Corp., Nissan Motor, Novartis AG, Telenor, Thyssen Krupp Elevator, as well as many other multinational corporations and major local companies are clients of Asters’ attorneys, who regularly handle a variety of complex matters and the largest transactions.

Asters is an exclusive Ukrainian member of professional networks such as World Services Group, L2B Aviation, Biolegis and Legalink, and is a long-standing member, both at corporate and individual level, of numerous professional associations, chambers of commerce, business associations and international as well as local bar associations.

Asters’ 120-strong staff offers clients a mix of deep local awareness and substantial international experience. Asters’ lawyers earned law degrees from the best European, Ukrainian and US law schools, including Yale, Harvard, Chicago, and California University. In 2015 Asters was recognized the best employer among law firms in Ukraine according to research by the Focus weekly.

Asters’ corporate social responsibility strategy is aimed at making a valuable input to the development of Ukraine. In 2015 EBA-Asters Legal School, one of Asters’ CSR initiatives, was awarded the best CSR project on the Ukrainian legal market in accordance with the results of the National CSR Business Cases Contest.