Rossiyskaya Gazeta has released its new ranking of Russia's best lawyers for 2025. This year, FBK Legal has shown impressive growth by having more nominees in this prestigious market leaders ranking than last year.
The firm received recognition across 12 key categories of the ranking:
- Taxes: Alexei Nesterenko, Managing Partner; Eduard Giulbasarov, Partner; Maria Semenova, Director; Ekaterina Golubeva, Head of Practice; Natalia Gerasimova, Head of Practice; Liliya Yulgusheva, Head of Practice; Alexey Yarztutkin, Head of Practice; Alesya Homich, Head of Practice; Elena Tuganova, Manager.
- Private Capital & Investments: Alexei Nesterenko, Managing Partner; Maria Semenova, Director; Liliya Yulgusheva, Head of Practice.
- Digital Assets: Ekaterina Golubeva, Head of Practice; Maria Semenova, Director; Elena Tuganova, Manager.
- International Projects: Alexei Nesterenko, Managing Partner.
- Sanctions Law: Victoria Arutyunyan, Partner; Vladislav Korneychuk, Head of Practice.
- Employment: Victoria Arutyunyan, Partner; Ivan Zvonkov, Manager.
- Corporate: Victoria Arutyunyan, Partner; Vladislav Korneychuk, Head of Practice; Elena Shkadova, Head of Practice; Ivan Zvonkov, Manager; Anna Rumyantseva, Senior Lawyer.
- M&A: Alexei Nesterenko, Managing Partner; Anna Aktanaeva, Head of Practice; Konstantin Fisunov, Head of Practice; Anna Rumyantseva, Senior Lawyer.
- Arbitration: Victoria Arutyunyan, Partner; Vladislav Korneychuk, Head of Practice; Anna Aktanaeva, Head of Practice.
- Real Estate & Utilities: Konstantin Fisunov, Head of Practice.
- PPP / Infrastructure: Konstantin Fisunov, Head of Practice.
- Educators: Alexei Nesterenko, Managing Partner; Liliya Yulgusheva, Head of Practice.
- Competition Law: Anna Aktanaeva, Head of Practice.
See the full 2025 ranking results for lawyers and their firms
Rossiyskaya Gazeta Ranking for 2024
Rossiyskaya Gazeta has published its list of best lawyers.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta has included even more FBK Legal experts to this year’s best lawyers ranking, with 19 lawyers featured this year as compared to 12 lawyers in 2023.
Our lawyers were ranked in 12 nominations:
- Tax Law – Alexei Nesterenko, Alexander Grigoriev, Eduard Giulbasarov, Mariya Semenova, Natalia Gerasimova, Ekaterina Golubeva, Ekaterina Subbotina, Andrey Elistratov, Alesya Homich, and Alexey Yarzutkin
- M&A – Alexei Nesterenko
- International Projects – Alexei Nesterenko
- Corporate – Alexei Nesterenko, Elena Bokareva, Anna Aktanaeva, Vladislav Korneychuk, Ivan Zvonkov, Alesya Homich, and Aleksey Nefedov
- PPP – Alexander Yalushkin and Alexey Nefedov
- Arbitration – Elena Bokareva, Anna Aktanaeva, and Ivan Zvonkov
- Employment – Elena Bokareva, Anna Aktanaeva, Ivan Zvonkov, and Alexander Yalushkin
- Educators – Alexei Nesterenko and Liliya Yulgusheva
- Pro Bono – Veniamin Andryushchenko
- Digital Assets and DA Management – Alexander Grigoriev, Ekaterina Golubeva, and Ekaterina Subbotina
- Private Capital and Investments – Alexander Grigoriev, Liliya Yulgusheva, and Mariya Semenova
- Real Estate and Utilities – Elena Bokareva and Alexander Yalushkin
We would like to thank Rossiyskaya Gazeta for such high appreciation of our team.
We wish our colleagues further success and great professional accomplishments!
This year, Rossiyskaya Gazeta has rolled out its first ever best lawyers ranking. The nominees are divided into groups based on the level of their professional skills, the complexity of projects implemented and their reputation. The ranking is individual and not tied to specific specialist locations.
FBK lawyers featured in 17 nominations, 10 of them ending up in the first group, and 7– in the second.
- Group 1 – Top specialists in their respective practice areas
- Group 2 – Excellent specialists with outstanding credentials
Arbitration – Elena Bokareva
PPP – Alexander Yalushkin
Corporate – Ekaterina Kotova, Alexander Yalushkin
M&A – Ekaterina Kotova, Elena Shkadova
Tax Law – Alexei Nesterenko, Alexander Grigoriev, Natalia Gerasimova, Ekaterina Golubeva, Eduard Giulbasarov, Andrey Elistratov, Ekaterina Subbotina
Digital Assets and DA Management – Ekaterina Golubeva, Ekaterina Subbotina
Private Capital and Investments – Liliya Yulgusheva
Real Estate and Utilities – Ekaterina Kotova
We would like to thank Rossiyskaya Gazeta for the high appraisal of our team and congratulate all nominees on making the ranking.
We wish you continued success and many more professional victories to come!
