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About

The firm: Kinstellar is a leading independent law firm in Emerging Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, with 12 offices in Almaty and Astana (Kazakhstan), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Bucharest (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey), Kyiv (Ukraine), Prague (the Czech Republic), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Zagreb (Croatia).

Kyiv office: The Kyiv office launched in 2016 with a team of highly skilled legal professionals with long-term experience handling major transactions for leading international and domestic clients in Ukraine across a wide spectrum of business sectors.

The Kyiv office is a fully integrated part of Kinstellar’s regional coverage and provides seamless client service in its core practice areas. Clients benefit from the firm’s regional expertise and its on-the-ground experience, as well as its ability to provide consistent, top-quality legal advice and assistance to the highest international standards in a fast-changing and dynamic market environment.

Areas of practice: Today Kinstellar Kyiv operates as an internationally oriented full-service practice focused on banking & finance; capital markets; competition & state aid; corporate/M&A; CRSI (compliance, risk & sensitive investigations); dispute resolution; restructuring & insolvency; tax. Kinstellar lawyers’ expertise also allows the firm to make a shift towards the industry focus, offering complex advisory to agribusiness; energy & natural resources; infrastructure, construction & real estate; transportation & logistics; manufacturing; life sciences & pharmaceutical; IT/telecommunications sector clients.

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Ukrainian
  • Russian

Memberships

  • Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA)
  • American Chamber of Commerce (ACC)
  • European Business Association (EBA)
  • British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce
  • Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce
  • US-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC)

Staffing Figures

  • 50 lawyers Kyiv office
  • 300+ lawyers Firm-wide total