According to the results of a large-scale annual study «Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients 2025», ESQUIRES’ legal expertise has once again been highly rated in key practices for the company:
✅ Criminal Law (including White-Collar Crime, Anticorruption, War and Military Crimes)
✅ Litigation: Domestic and Cross-Border
The company’s partners also received individual awards:
🔹Oleksandr Shkelebey, managing partner – among the leading specialists in litigation practice.
🔹Opanas Karlin, partner – a recognized expert in criminal law.
The twenty-second edition «Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients » highlights both the enormous burden on the Ukrainian legal sector and its extraordinary transformation.
The editorial team notes that ESQUIRES law firm has demonstrated proactive bankruptcy practice during the period under review. The firm initiated and conducted several high-profile cases for clients, where it secured full recognition of claims and negotiated favorable settlements. The key contact person is counsel Vitalii Izviekov. Among others noted in the market analysis for the period under review are corporate and M&A practice (contact person is partner Bogdan Prysyazhnyuk) and criminal law (partner Opanas Karlin), as well as litigation practice (managing partner Oleksandr Shkelebey and partner Viktoria Kovalchuk), whose recent projects were distinguished by their high complexity, multi-jurisdictional nature, and positive results for clients.
We would like to thank Yurydychna Practyka for its high-quality and objective analysis of the domestic legal services market and for recognizing the professionalism of the ESQUIRES team!