Asters announces the promotion of Oksana Legka and Oleksandr Volkov to Partners in the International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation practice effective from 1 January 2024.
Oksana Legka focuses on dispute resolution issues, including multi-jurisdictional litigation, investor-state and international commercial arbitration. She advises the State of Ukraine, governmental agencies, and major corporate clients in complex, multi-billion, transnational landmark disputes, as well as investor-state and commercial arbitrations that involves the strategic coordination of simultaneous litigations in various foreign jurisdictions and national courts.
Oleksandr Volkov has over 15 years of experience in international commercial, investment, and sports arbitration, as well as cross-border litigation. He has been involved in numerous arbitration proceedings under ICSID, ICC, SCC, LCIA, JAMS, AAA, ICAC at CCI Arbitration Rules, and has experience in the FIDIC-related disputes as well as in advising clients in litigations in England, the USA, the EU, and other major jurisdictions.
"Co-Managing Partner and Head of International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation Oleksiy Didkovskiy comments: "The promotion of Oksana and Oleksandr is one of the examples that Asters is a firm where strong players rise from Associates to Partners, where high-profile projects foster the development of talents and where a healthy working atmosphere encourages both professional and personal growth. We have been working together for many years to achieve the best results for our clients and I firmly believe that we will see many successes in their new roles."
Asters is the largest full-service law firm in Ukraine with offices in Kyiv, Brussels, London, and Washington, D.C. The firm has access to over 125 jurisdictions through a well-developed network of partner law firms. Asters' International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation practice is one of the leading in the Ukrainian legal market. It is recognised among the leading law firms globally in Arbitration by GAR100 in 2023, as Tier 1 in Dispute Resolution by The Legal500 EMEA in 2023, as Band 1 for International Dispute Resolution by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe in 2022.
