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.
After the outstanding success of The Lawyer European Awards 2010, The Lawyer once again turns its attention to recognising the achievements of law firms based on the Continent.
On June 16 Vedomosti published a rating of top lawyers in the country, based on Best Lawyers® surveys - one of the most authoritative publications specializing in lawyer assessment.
The international legal directory The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa 2011 which provides annual information for a significant number of reputable legal firms, recommended EPAM for different practice areas including dispute resolution, banking and finance, corporate and M&A, shipping and transport.
Chamber Europe 2011, the international legal directory, this year recommends EPAM in a range of practice areas including Dispute Resolution, Corporate and M&A, Restructuring/Insolvency, Antitrust, Real Estate and Energy and Natural Resources. The firm’s high standing in the ranking is endorsed by a number of individual lawyers and clients.
05 May 2011 – EPAM was declared the winner in the National Firms in Russia category at a prestigious Chambers Europe Awards 2011 ceremony that took place today in Amsterdam.
The 4th edition of the Global Arbitration Review 100 (2011) features EPAM among the world’s leading specialist international arbitration firms. EPAM is the only Russian law firm recommended in the survey. Ilya Nikiforov, Evgeny Raschevsky and Victor Dumler are mentioned as the arbitration practice leaders. The report also highly commends Dimitry Afanasiev’s work for BP in its multibillion dollar tussle with its joint venture partner over shares in TNK-BP.
In the recently published Chambers Global 2011, EPAM sustained its top rank for Russia and emerged as a recommended law firm for the UK in the Leading Foreign Law Firms in London category.
March 23, 2011 – The CIS LCN has been chosen as the joint winner of the prestigious IFLR 2011 “M&A deal of the year” Award for its role in the Danone-Unimilk merger. The IFLR Europe Awards 2011 have chosen the team of legal advisers who worked on the deal and demonstrated high quality legal advice combined with outstanding customer service and coordination.
EPAM has once again topped the rating of M&A Legal Advisors as prepared by the Expert-Analytical Group on M&A-Intelligence of the Mergers & Acquisitions Journal.
EPAM has been nominated for Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2011, a prestigious international award, in a category “Best Russian Law Firm of the Year”.
Danone-Unimilk deal was shortlisted as M&A deal of the year for the prestigious IFLR Europe awards 2011. The merger, creating the new leader for dairy products in the CIS area, was advised by EPAM and members of the CIS Leading Counsel Network, the first pan-CIS “best friends” legal network.
EPAM has been chosen as the winner of the Corporate Intl Magazine 2010 Legal Award for “Litigation Advisory Firm of the Year in Russia”.