Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For a quarter century, it has helped lawyers and clients find legal counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. For the first time in 2009 this rating encompassed Ukraine and as a result Vasil Kisil & Partners was ranked #1 in the country with 10 attorneys listed as leading practitioners in their field, ranked #1 in Ukraine in Arbitration and Mediation, #1 in Litigation and #1 in Real Estate.

The Best Lawyers Board of Advisors includes legal luminaries from almost every major world economy as well as general counsel from global companies with business on every continent. Vasil Kisil & Partners’ Managing Partner Oleg Makarov was offered an honorable duty to represent Ukrainian legal community on the Advisory Board along with three more reputable practitioners representing leading national law firms. 

Commenting on his election to serve on Best Lawyers Advisory Board Mr. Makarov, who was rated as leading arbitration, mediation and litigation practitioner by Best Lawyers peer-review, said: “What pleases me the most is the fact that Vasil Kisil & Partners team secured us a #1 position among Ukrainian law firms in the very first edition of this rating covering our region. I am proud to see as many as 10 of my distinguished colleagues listed here, including Dr. Kisil  (ranked #1 in Arbitration and Mediation, Investment, Litigation and Corporate), Vadym Belyanevych  (#1 in Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation), Oleg Alyoshin  (#1 in Litigation and Real Estate), Oleksiy Filatov  ((#1 in Litigation), Dr. Tatyana Slipachuk, FCIArb.  (#1 in Arbitration and Mediation), Denis Lysenko  (#1 in Corporate), Oksana Voynarovska  (Labor and Employment), Maria Nizhnik  (Antirust) and Natalia Dotsenko-Belous  (Real Estate)”.