Despite the fact that the number of court decisions on the reimbursement of costs for legal assistance is growing, today we can only state the development of approaches, but not long-held positions. Reimbursement of costs for legal assistance of an attorney-at-law largely depends and will depend on the judge's discretion.
In these conditions, it is especially pleasant not only to win the case on the merits for the Client, but also to achieve to reimbursement of costs for legal assistance, as it is a customary rule in the court proceedings of developed countries.
On this path, the attorneys-at-law of Antika Law Firm continue their positive practice, and this time, in addition to successfully defending the interests of insurance company "Persha" on the merits of the dispute in the Northern Economic Court of Appeal, they also achieved full return the client's cost for legal assistance in appeal proceedings and refusal to satisfy the opponents' appeal against an additional decision to reimburse costs in the court of first instance.
The team of lawyers of Antika Law Firm, consisting of partners Alexey Kot and Maxim Korchagin, as well as senior associate Mykhailo Voitsekhovskyi, worked on the project.
Antika Law Firm has been operating in the legal market since 2010. It is within in a TOP-30 leading law firms in Ukraine*.
The Firm provides a full range of legal services to national and international companies that do business in Ukraine and abroad. The partners of the Firm have over 20 years’ experience in providing business law advice.
Specialists of Antika Law Firm are experts in following practices: Antitrust, Corporate, Construction & Real Estate, Energy, Dispute Resolution, Legal Expertise.
The Firm’s representative clients AWT Bavaria, ViDi Group, Ibis Group of Companies, Nadra Ukrayny, Nasosenergomash, Henkel Ukraine, Henkel Bautechnik Ukraine, Chernomorneftegaz, Ukrnafta, FC Dnipro, Energobank, Cadogan Petroleum, Cargill, Esan Eczacıbaşı Industrial Raw Materials, Enesa, Ghelamco, Heitman International, Imperial Tobacco, International Resources Group (USAID project “Municipal Energy Reform in Ukraine”), Lantmannen Axa, Shell Retail Ukraine.
Antika Law Firm also advised EBRD, World Bank, TACIS, NEFCO, UNDP, KfW, NEFCO on implementation infrastructure, energy-saving and other projects in Ukraine.
*rankings: 50 Top Law Firms of Ukraine (Yurydycheskaya Practika Publishing), Market leaders: ranking of Ukrainian legal companies (Yurydychna Gazeta), The Legal 500, Ukrainian Law Firms ILFR1000, Best Lawyers and others.
