Infrastructure 1 Is your state a party to the New York Convention? Are there any noteworthy declarations or reservations? Yes, Ukraine is a party to the New York Convention. It was ratified in 1960 by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) (as a part of the former Soviet Union). Following the declaration of independence in 1991, Ukraine confirmed its obligations under all international treaties entered into by the Ukrainian SSR, including the New York Convention...
Asters
Main Contacts

Oleksiy Didkovskiy
Co-Managing Partner
Armen Khachaturyan
Senior Partner - WSG CIS Open Group Co-LeaderOffices
Overview
Founded in 1995, Asters is the biggest full-service Ukrainian law firm with offices in Kyiv, Brussels, Washington, D. C. and London. 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. Asters combines established world-class quality, international recognition and strong local presence.
Asters is recognized Ukraine Law Firm of the Year by The Lawyer (2021, 2020), Who's Who Legal (2021, 2020) and Chambers & Partners (2020); and named No. 1 law firm in Ukraine according to the 2020 Top 50 Law Firms Annual National Ranking by Legal Practice Weekly and has been included in the best 3 law firms in Ukraine for the last 16 years. Asters is also named Law Firm of the Year and Law Firm of the Decade on the Legal Awards 2020 and 2016 ceremonies accordingly conducted by Legal Practice Weekly.
The Firm is also highly recommended in Ukraine by major international reviews, including IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, The Legal 500. Firm's partners and lawyers are distinguished by the world's best peer review-based surveys such as Best Lawyers, Expert Guides, and Who's Who Legal.
Asters offers a full range of legal services and keeps 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, compliance and anti-corruption, dispute resolution, energy and resources, environment, family law, intellectual property, international trade, labour and employment, mediation, public-private partnership, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, sports, taxation, telecommunications, and white collar crime.
The Firm has extensive industry-specific experience and plays a leading role in advising clients in various market sectors, including agriculture, automotive, aviation, banking and finance, energy, infrastructure and transport, insurance, media and advertising, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, private equity, real estate and construction, retail and consumer goods, telecommunications and IT.
All Asters' attorneys received their Ukrainian law degrees from the best Ukrainian law schools and have developed problem-solving skills and experience from years of practicing business law. Most attorneys are fluent in English. A number of our lawyers earned LL.M degrees at prominent U.S. and European universities such as Yale Law School, Chicago Law School, Harvard and New York University, and have gained substantial international experience working at the leading international law firms in the US, UK and Ukraine.
Year this Office was Established: 1995
Lawyers Worldwide: 120
Notable
Areas of Practice
Representative Clients
Professionals
Partners

Gleb Bialyi
Partner
Oleg Boichuk
Partner
Oleksiy Demyanenko
Partner
Oleksiy Didkovskiy
Co-Managing Partner
Sergiy Grebenyuk
Partner
Armen Khachaturyan
Senior Partner - WSG CIS Open Group Co-Leader
Roman M. Kostenko
Partner
Yuriy Kotliarov
Partner
Talina Kravtsova
Partner
Yaroslav Petrov
Partner
Iryna V. Pokanay
Partner
Andriy Pozhidayev
Partner
Vadym Samoilenko
Partner
Julia M. Semeniy
Partner
Constantin Solyar
Partner
Roman Stepanenko
Partner
Igor Svechkar
Partner
Serhii Sviriba
Co-Managing Partner
Oleksandr Voznyuk
PartnerCounsels

Gabriel Aslanian
Counsel
Oleksandr Frolov
Counsels
Sergiy Glushchenko
Counsel
Marta Halabala
Counsels
Oleksandr Khomenko
Counsels
Igor Kotsiuba
Of Counsel
Oles Kvyat
Counsel
Oksana Legka
Counsel
Olga Lepikhina
Counsel
Inesa Letych
Counsel
Anzhelika Livitska
Counsel
Kateryna Oliynyk
Counsels
Viktoriya Podvorchanska
Counsel
Anton Sintsov
Counsels
Orest Stasuik
Counsel
Maksym Tereshchuk
Counsels
Sergiy Tsyba
Counsel
Pavlo Verbolyuk
Counsels
Oleksandr Volkov
CounselsOther

Sergiy Burnus
Head of London Office
Oleksiy Uros
Business Development Director
Liliya Yanovska
Marketing Director
Alexey Pustovit
PartnerArticles
One Year Later: The Results and Prospects of the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention
One year ago, on June 21, 2022, the President signed the law on the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence and the fight against these phenomena. The Convention entered into force for Ukraine on November 1, 2022. Asters partner Talina Kravtsova and the company's lawyer Maryna Kornienko analyzed what happened during this time and what steps Ukraine took to combat violence against women . On June 1, 2023, the EU Council approved the accession of the European Union to the convention...
Press
Asters advises JSC Ukrainian Railways on USD 895 million Eurobonds restructuring
Asters acted as a Ukrainian counsel for JSC Ukrainian Railways in the successful restructurings of loan participation notes issued by Rail Capital Markets plc in the total amount of USD 895 million (one in relation to its USD 300 million 7.875%. loan participation notes due 2026 and another in relation to its USD 594.9 million 8.250% loan participation notes due 2024). Holders of both loan participations Notes agreed to extend the maturity dates of the relevant loan agreements, provide for the deferral of interest during a two-year period, make certain amendments to the covenants contained in the loan agreements and replace the trustee...
Asters advises EBRD on EUR 10 million financing for Grain Alliance Group
Asters acts as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its EUR 10 million financing for Grain Alliance Group, a Swedish-owned large-sized agricultural holding in Ukraine that cultivates around 60,000 hectares of land. The loan will be used to improve and expand export capacity for grain, which was disrupted as a result of Russia's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. To this end, Grain Alliance Group will increase storage capacity, modernise infrastructure, as well as purchase grain hoppers, locomotives and trucks to ensure safe grain transport from Ukraine to Slovakia and onwards to final customers...