Vasil Kisil & Partners’ ‘excellent’ practice benefits from a strong corporate team, which includes Denis Lysenko, who ‘is the bright representative of the young generation of Ukrainian professional lawyers’. Recent highlights for the team include advising Central European Media Enterprises on a potential joint venture.

This accomplished team provides an integrated service with its corporate and tax teams. The group's work in agricultural transactions comes strongly recommended, as does its construction advice. It represented the Scorpio Real Estate Group on a USD150 million residential skyscraper venture in Kyiv. Another significant mandate is representing Mott MacDonald on its role in the USD2.4 billion Kyiv outer ring road project. Senior associate Alexander Borodkin is set to make a great impact on the market, say sources. “He is very clever and really knows the specifics of the Ukrainian market,” according to clients.