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ABOUT US

Welcome to Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm

Ilyashev & Partners owes its success to the professionalism and experience of our people. Our team comprises the best attorneys and lawyers, specialists in various areas of law.

We hope that you, like all our clients, will always be able to rely on our specialists, and our knowledge and experience will definitely prove to be useful to you.

Mikhail Ilyashev

Managing Partner

ABOUT US

Company history

Our firm has been active in the legal services market since 1997. We are one of the most old-established law firms in the post-Soviet space.

Founded by Mikhail Ilyashev and Roman Marchenko as a small law boutique in Kyiv, Ilyashev & Partners has grown significantly, expanding the geography of its presence, and gaining a reputation as a respected full-cycle international law firm.

Today Ilyashev & Partners has more than 150 employees working in five offices in Ukraine and Estonia.

A distinctive attribute of our company is the development of our own office network. All our offices are fully-functioning business units rendering legal services to the firm’s clients. In 2019 Ilyashev & Partners became the largest legal office network in Ukraine.

Our role as legal advisers is more than just sharing our legal expertise. We are in constant search for innovative solutions and are not afraid of taking new efficient approaches.

20+
years in the market
50+
attorneys at law and lawyers
400+
clients regularly serviced
1000+
court hearings annually

Reliability

We provide assistance by:

Helping at any stage of the project.
Discussing the task with you, analyzing all prospects and risks.
Thorough studying of the problem, taking into account the special aspects of your business activities.
Developing a strategy, suggesting solutions and action plan.

“The success of our firm results from the professionalism and expertise of our team”
Roman Marchenko, Senior Partner

Trust in firm

Professional liability insured

“In the entire history of our firm, there has not been a single insured event”
Mikhail Ilyashev, Managing Partner

Team

Leading experts

Mikhail I. Ilyashev
Attorney at Law, Managing Partner, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine

One of the most famous attorneys in Ukraine. Head of Corporate and M&A Practice, Co-Head of Dispute Resolution Practice.
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Roman V. Marchenko
Attorney at Law, Senior Partner, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine

Leading Ukrainian attorney. Head of International Arbitration, Co-Head of Dispute Resolution Practice.
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Olena L. Omelchenko
Attorney at Law, Partner, Head of International Trade Practice

One of the most successful legal consultants in the field of international trade, trade defense and the WTO law.
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Oleksandr Y. Fefelov
Attorney at Law, Partner, Head of Antitrust and Competition Practice

A recognized expert in the protection of economic competition, public procurement and state aid.
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Yevgen O. Solovyov
Attorney at Law, Partner, Insolvency Receiver

Head of projects on protection against hostile corporate takeovers and shareholders disputes.
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OUR CLIENTS

Today we are working on projects for more than 400 active clients

TRUST IN THE COMPANY

Our cases

Defending the Red Cross emblem in a dispute with a network of medical centers
- #Medicine & Healthcare
- #Intellectual Property
Result
The network’s obligation to stop using the Red Cross emblem was formalized in an amicable agreement approved by the economic court within a framework of a court action. The network started the rebranding. The dispute became the first case in 30 years of successful protection of the Red Cross emblem in Ukraine.

Dmytro S. Nikulesko
Attorney at Law
Ukraine.ua domain name re-delegation in favor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
- #Public Sector
- #Intellectual Property
Result
Full legal support and counseling during the re-delegation of a unique second-level domain in the .UA public domain from an individual to the central executive body to host a modern digital portal about Ukraine for foreign audiences.

Dmytro S. Nikulesko
Attorney at Law
Supervision of license agreement on the production of Antonov Watches by Kleynod
- #Aviation
- #Intellectual Property
Result
Ilyashev & Partners represented State Enterprise Antonov in a rather rare case in Ukraine of granting by the state-owned enterprise a permission to use its trademark to a private company. The Firm supported the process of transferring permission to use ТМ «ANTONOV» and design elements of aircraft parts in the design of watches.

Dmytro S. Nikulesko
Attorney at Law
Supervision of sale of 49.99% in Golden Sunrise Agro
- #Agribusiness
- #Corporate and M&A
Result
The deal was executed in Ukraine and subordinated to laws of the State of New York, the USA, whereby Latvian bank was engaged as an escrow agent for settlement purposes.

Yevgen O. Solovyov
Attorney at Law, Partner, Insolvency Receiver