The Legal 500
The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 recommends FBK Legal as one of the best Russian law firms in the following nine practice areas: Tax; Commercial, Corporate and M&A; Dispute Resolution: Litigation; Competition; Energy and Natural Resources; PPP and Infrastructure Projects; Restructuring and Insolvency; Employment; and Private Client.
Personal recommendations are given to Nadezhda Orlova, a Partner of FBK Legal, Tatiana Golovaneva, the Deputy Director of the Department of Tax Services and Digital Solutions, as well as Alexander Ermolenko, Elena Bokareva, Sergey Ermolenko, Tatiana Matveicheva, Alexander Grigoriev, Alexandra Gerasimova, Alena Ermolenko, Natalya Lezhennikova, Elena Shigidina, Natalia Gerasimova, Alexander Yalushkin and Liliya Yulgusheva.
FBK Legal was top listed in Russia in the following ten practice areas in The Legal 500 EMEA 2020 annual ranking: Tax, tier 1, Commercial, Corporate and M&A: Moscow, tier 5, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, tier 3, Competition, tier 3, Energy and Natural Resources, tier 5, Intellectual Property, tier 3, PPP and Infrastructure Projects, tier 3, Restructuring and Insolvency, tier 3, Employment, tier 3 and Private client, tier 2.
The ranking personally distinguished FBK Legal’s Partners Nadezhda Orlova and Galina Akchurina as “leading individuals” and recommended the following lawyers in various practice areas: Alexander Ermolenko, Nina Boer, Tatiana Matveicheva, Tatiana Golovaneva, Sergey Ermolenko, Alexander Grigoriev, Alexandra Gerasimova, Elena Bokareva and Mikhail Golovanev.
FBK legal partners recommended by the rating include Nadezhda Orlova and Galina Akchurina as Russia’s top-performing tax layers.
Sergey Еrmolenko, Head of Antitrust practice and Alexander Ermolenko, FBK Legal partner have made it into top lawyers in antitrust law. The team as well as individual lawyers have received highly appreciative recommendations as “bright and talented” lawyers who provide “strong and well-crafted legal opinions”.
The rating authors noted a group of FBK Legal lawyers in Energy and Natural Resource well-equipped with critical skills in this area, with personal recommendations going to Nadezhda Orlova, Galina Akchurina and Alexander Ermolenko.
Nadezhda Orlova and Alexander Ermolenko were noted as key and “true experts with a very diverse range of skills» in Dispute Resolution. Alexander Ermolenko, FBK Legal partner gained his nomination in Intellectual property.
Corporate and M&A practice (Corporate and M&A, recommended) has been endorsed as a recommended go-to company.
Among endorsed lawyers are Sergey Ermolenko and Evgeniya Yusipova (Darenina) from the antitrust practice, and Alexander Ermolenko, a FBK Legal partner overseeing the team’s activities. The team as well as individual lawyers have received highly appreciative recommendations as outstanding experts in antitrust law with in-depth knowledge of the legal proceedings.
Alexander Ermolenko has received personal recommendation as a key expert in dispute resolution and an overseer of this field’s activities.
Other FBK legal partners personally endorsed by the rating include Nadezhda Orlova and Galina Akchurina as Russia’s top-performing tax layers.
FBK Legal Corporate practice has become one of the recommended to cooperation practices (Corporate and M&A, recommended).