News

03 August 2022

Asters team contributed to the Olson Family Trust Ukraine Humanitarian Mission

Asters team assisted the charitable foundation Olson Family Trust with the first part of humanitarian mission in Ukraine.

02 August 2022

Asters joins the United Nations Global Compact Network Ukraine

Asters became a member of the UN Global Compact Network Ukraine, which is a dialogue and educational platform for achieving sustainable development goals.

29 July 2022

Asters successfully defended PrivatBank before the Supreme Court in one of the key cases on appeal of the Bank's nationalisation

Asters successfully defended interests of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest bank in terms of assets, before the Supreme Court that on 26 July 2022 overturned the decisions of the courts of previous instances and dismissed the claim of Triantal Investments Ltd, the PrivatBank's former shareholders, to declare illegal and cancel the order of the National Bank of Ukraine regarding the inspection of PrivatBank, that preceded its nationalisation.

24 June 2022

Asters contributes to work on representation of interests of Ukraine in inter-state case against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights

On 23 June 2022, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine acting on behalf of the State of Ukraine filed the first part of Ukraine’s substantive submissions in its application before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to address the damages caused by the violations committed by the Russian Federation over the first phase of full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

08 June 2022

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi appointed to working group on compensation for damage caused by Russia's war against Ukraine

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Partner and Co-Head of International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation at Asters, has been appointed to the working group on the development and implementation of international legal mechanisms to compensate the damage caused by Russia's war against Ukraine.

31 May 2022

Iryna Pokanay is recognised by IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2022

Asters' Partner Iryna Pokanay has been recognised by IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2022 for the second consecutive time. This year she becomes one of the 8 female lawyers in Ukraine whose professional achievements are distinguished by the ranking.

26 May 2022

Asters is among the world’s top law firms in arbitration according to GAR100 2022

Asters has been listed among the world’s top international arbitration law firms by the recently published Global Arbitration Review – The GAR 100 (15th Edition), one of the most authoritative global independent researches of the best law firms specializing in international arbitration.

20 May 2022

Anzhelika Livitska contributes to improvement of Ukrainian environmental, construction, and subsoil laws

Asters' Counsel and Head of Construction, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development Anzhelika Livitska and other experts joined relevant committees of the European Business Association (EBA) and the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine (CBU) in their work to develop laws introducing deregulation measures for the martial law period and for the period of restoration and rebuild of Ukraine.

29 April 2022

Asters successfully defended PrivatBank in UAH 152 mln dispute related to the ownership right over the head office building

Asters defended interests of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest bank in terms of assets, in a court of appeal in a dispute related to the ownership right over the client's head office building located in Dnipro (Ukraine).

30 March 2022

Statement of Ukrainian law firms on termination of business with companies who continue operating in the Russian federation

The Ukrainian legal market together with the whole world is witnessing unheard brutality and cynicism of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine. The war started by Russia targets not only military facilities in Ukraine, but civil objects, hospitals, schools, residential and office buildings.