About the Firm

Magisters is the new name of Magister & Partners, Attorneys-at-Law. The Firm was established in 1997 and initially specialized in trade law. Eleven years later we are a full-service, international law firm, advising leading global and domestic organizations throughout the CIS. 

Following our merger with Ukrainian litigation specialists Reznikov, Vlasenko and Partners in April 2006 and our merger with Russian dispute resolution specialists Legas eight months later, we now comprise 120 internationally trained and locally experienced lawyers in our Moscow and Kyiv offices.

We are consistently recognized by Chambers Global, the Legal 500 EMEA, PLC Which Lawyer?, the IFLR 1000, and others for the quality of our work in real estate, banking and finance, dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, and international trade.

We assist numerous government and inter-governmental organizations including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Court of Arbitration (ICC, Paris), and the World Bank. Magisters advises its customers on cross-border transactions in collaboration with leading international law firms.

Our clients include: ABN AMRO, Alfa Group Consortium, Bank TuranAlem, Bonduelle, Centertelecom, Chornomornaftogaz, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank AG, Energoatom, EuroChem, EvrazHolding, Gazprombank, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Ingosstrakh, Interpipe, JT International, Mechel Steel Group, Merrill Lynch, Mittal Steel, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Morgan Stanley, Naftogaz of Ukraine, Neusiedler, Novolipetsk Steel, Oriflame, Pernod Ricard, Renaissance, Renova Group, Shell, Sibirtelecom, Sistema, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc., TNK–BP, U.S. Steel, Viacom, VimpelCom, Vnesheconombank, Yahoo! Inc., and Zarubezhneft.