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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Oleksiy Didkovskiy
Quick facts
# Partners

23

# Total number of lawyers

120+

# Practitioners (worldwide)

120+

Languages

English, Ukrainian

Network memberships

LexMundi, World Services Group, Energy Law Group, Biolegis, Legalink

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Banking
Capital markets
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Equity
Financial and corporate
Corporate and M&A
Restructuring and insolvency
M&A
Energy and infrastructure
Project development
Firm overview
Founded in 1995, Asters is Ukraine's largest law firm, with offices in Kyiv, London, and Washington, D.C. Combining strong transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution practices with deep industry expertise across key sectors, the firm delivers comprehensive legal support to its clients. Asters advises leading international and domestic corporations, governments, state-owned enterprises, investors, banks, international financial institutions, and HNWIs. Its clients include Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, EBRD, Ferrero S.p.A., HBO, Horizon Capital, IFC, Millennium & Copthorne, Microsoft, Molson Coors, Prada S.p.A., PrivatBank, Shark Robotics, Société Générale, the State of Ukraine, Toyota Ukraine, Ukrnafta, Visa, Webuild S.p.A., and many others.
Key practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Competition
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance
  • For more information click here
Sector expertise
  • Agriculture
  • Aviation
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Gaming
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Transport
  • Utilities
  • For more information click here
Other offices

WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE
1717 K Street, NW Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
USA
T: +1 202 787 5730
E: info@asterslaw.com
W: https://www.asterslaw.com/offices/washington_dc_office/

LONDON OFFICE
167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor
London W1W 5PF
UK
T: +44 0 7816 200 188
E: yaroslav.petrov@asterslaw.com
W: https://www.asterslaw.com/offices/office_in_london/

Address:
Leonardo Business Center, 14th Fl.,
19-21 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St., Kyiv,
01054
Tel:+ 38 044 230 6000 Fax:+38 044 230 6001 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.asterslaw.com

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2027 Edition
Banking and finance
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Project development
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Asters
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Aequo
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Kinstellar
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Redcliffe Partners
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Arzinger
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Avellum
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EY Law
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Ilyashev & Partners
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LCF Law Group
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Moris
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Restructuring and insolvency
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Aequo
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LCF Law Group
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Arzinger
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Dentons
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Selepey Volkovetsky & Partners
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Alekseev Boyarchukov & Partners
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Everlegal
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Pavlenko Legal Group
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Founded in 1995, Asters is a full-service Ukrainian law firm with an office in Kyiv. It comprises 140 lawyers, including 27 partners. It also has offices in Washington DC, US and Brussels, Belgium.

 

Focusses / specialisms

The firm is experienced in providing legal advice in all areas of financial law and project development. It acts mainly for foreign clients on cross-border deals.

The firm advises banks, institutional investors, companies and development funds on a broad range of transactions within the banking, corporate financing, project financing and capital markets practice areas.

 

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