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Asters

Founded in 1995, Asters is the largest law firm in Ukraine, with offices in Kyiv, London, and Washington, D.C. The firm combines strong transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution practices with deep industry expertise across all key sectors.

Asters advises leading international and domestic corporations, governments, state-owned enterprises, investors, banks, international financial institutions, and HNWIs.

Asters offers a full range of legal services and keeps high reputation for its expertise in a wide array of practices, such as banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and M&A, competition and antitrust, dispute resolution, energy and resources, environment, family law, intellectual property, international trade, compliance and anti-corruption, cybersecurity, labour and employment, mediation, public-private partnership, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, sports law, taxation, telecommunications, and white collar crime.

The firm and its lawyers are consistently recognised by leading international and national rankings, including The Lawyer, FT Innovative Lawyers, Chambers & Partners, Legal500 EMEA, IFLR1000, Lexology Index etc.

Life Sciences Team

Asters established history and diverse team allows us to provide quality advice in a broad range of practice areas, including biotechnology and life sciences.

Asters team advises pharmaceutical/biotechnology and medical device manufacturers and suppliers on a large variety of Ukrainian law matters, including M&A, regulatory, tax & customs, distribution, product labeling & liability, clinical trial material issues, IP protection, and antitrust. The firm successfully represents clients before the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the State Pharmaceuticals Quality Control Inspectorate, tax, customs, and consumer protection authorities.

GlaxoSmithKline, Teva, Aventis Inc., Bayer, Aspen, Novartis AG, L’Oreal Ukraine, S.C. Johnson & Son, Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH, as well as many other multinational corporations and major local companies are the clients for which Asters’ attorneys regularly handle a variety of complex matters and the largest transactions.

Listings & recommendations

Lexology Index Awards
2018-2025 - Ukraine Law Firm of the Year
Chambers Europe 2026 - recommended in all researched practices
The Legal 500 EMEA 2026 - the only Tier 1 firm in all 12 practices in Ukraine
The Lawyer European Awards 2021, 2020 - Law Firm of the Year: Ukraine
50 Leading Law Firms of Ukraine 2011-2016, 2018-2020, 2022, 2024-2026 - No. 1 Law Firm in Ukraine