EPAM has won the prestigious Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2012 for a second year in a row in the category National Law Firm of the Year in Russia
This year, EPAM has significantly strengthened its positions in Best Lawyers 2012. A total of 27 lawyers and partners of the Firm have been recognised as leading experts in 24 practice areas in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, thus making the Firm the leading player in the CIS market.
Legal 500 has ranked EPAM as a top tier law firm in 4 practice areas in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The Firm has been also recommended for 13 other key practice areas with 7 lawyers listed in the elite list and 21 lawyers included in the general ranking.
EPAM has once again been top ranked by Chambers Global 2012. This is the first time after two mergers that the Firm has been recommended in all key practices across 5 jurisdictions, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the UK.
EPAM has been included into the prestigious annual ranking Global Arbitration Review 100 (GAR 100) as the only law firm from the CIS, acknowledged among the world's key arbitration players.
Global Competition Review (GCR), the world's leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service, has listed EPAM among the best law firms in Russia in the area of competition law.
EPAM has been shortlisted for Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2012 in the category Best Law Firm of the Year - Russia.
At the awards ceremony that was held on February 9, 2012 in London EPAM, the largest law firm in the CIS, was recognised among the highly commended international law firms of the year.
World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000), the world's leading trademark professionals directory, has ranked IP practice of EPAM in Russia and Ukraine among the best in their jurisdictions.
EPAM has become the only law firm top ranked in all categories of the newly released ranking Pravo.Ru-300.
Nomination for the prestigious British Legal Awards reflects the outstanding professional level of the CIS Leading Counsel Network (CIS LCN), a pan-CIS network of the leading law firms that demonstrated their excellence advising on the Danone-Unimilk merger.
The newly released International Finance Law Review 1000 (IFLR 1000) recommends the joint team of EPAM not only for Russia but also for three other CIS jurisdictions of the Firm's presence that has been extended significantly after its merger with Magisters. It is noteworthy that in Belarus, the Firm is the absolute leader of the ranking.
Ilya Nikiforov, Managing Partner of the Firm’s Saint Petersburg office, Serhii Sviriba, Managing Partner of the Kyiv office and Dmitry Dyakin, Partner at Moscow office have been recognized as world's leading arbitration experts, according to The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration 2012.
Today the Russian Reporter magazine published a list of the 100 most distinguished people in Russia in 2011. Dimitry Afanasiev, the member of the Partners' Committee of EPAM, is among the top 10 most distinguished Russian lawyers.
EPAM has won the Law Firm of the Year in Russia and the CIS award at The Lawyer European Awards 2011, the most prestigious professional award in Europe.
