The 2025 Kommersant Legal Ranking results are out

BIRCH maintains its position as a top firm across all major practice areas.

We’re thrilled to announce that our firm has been recognized as a leader in 27 practice areas, with 13 of our lawyers earning top spots in the individual rankings.

None of this would be possible without our incredible team, whose dedication and expertise allow us to tackle even the toughest challenges for our clients.

A big thanks to the Kommersant team for putting together such a thorough and professional ranking.

Bands 1 and 2

  • Corporate and M&A: Russian Market: High-End
  • Dispute Resolution: Corporate Disputes: High-End
  • Intellectual Property: Dispute Resolution
  • Intellectual Property: Consulting
  • Competition: Consulting
  • Competition: Dispute Resolution
  • Labor and Migration: Consulting
  • Labor and Migration: Dispute Resolution
  • Restructuring and Insolvency: High-End
  • Tax: Consulting
  • International Trade / Customs
  • Data Protection
  • Digital Economy / FINTECH
  • Environmental Law
  • Industrials: Consulting
  • TMT: Consulting
  • Life Sciences and Healthcare: Consulting
  • Life Sciences and Healthcare: Dispute Resolution
  • Retail and FMCG: Consulting
  • Construction and Real Estate: Consulting
  • Agribusiness: Consulting
  • Agribusiness: Dispute Resolution
  • Banking and Finance: Dispute Resolution
  • Energy: Consulting
  • Natural Resources: Consulting

Band 3

  • Dispute Resolution: Commercial Disputes: High-End
  • Sanctions

Individual Rankings

Mikhail Timonov

  • Corporate and M&A – 2
  • Labor and Migration – 1

Yury Pugach

  • Commercial Disputes – 2

Anton Sitnikov

  • Corporate and M&A – 2
  • ТМТ – 1

Timur Akhundov

  • Energy and Natural Resources – 1

Anton Bakov

  • ТМТ – 1
  • Sanctions – 2

Alexander Bolomatov

  • Intellectual Property: Dispute Resolution – 1

Andrey Shpak

  • Digital Economy / FINTECH – 1

Ekaterina Tilling

  • Intellectual Property: Dispute Resolution – 1
  • Intellectual Property: Consulting – 1

Anton Borisichev

  • International Trade – 1
  • Digital Economy / FINTECH – 2

Alexander Gavrilov

  • Competition – 2
  • Sanctions – 2

Olga Chirkova

  • Environmental Law – 1

Tatiana Kandrina

  • Labor and Migration – 1

Ksenia Petrovets

  • Data Protection – 1

Check out the full rankings in the article here.

Other news

BIRCH LEGAL is moving again to a new office in Moscow
8 July 2024

Not long ago, we moved into our new Moscow office. However, the firm's development and our team's expansion turned out to be even more robust than planned, so the other day we made the move into our new HOME.

BIRCH’s First Responders in action!
26 December 2024

We are happy to share the positive results of our team’s work in providing priority legal support to businesses in emergency situations.

BIRCH LEGAL is launching its unique service called “First Responders” that is designed to provide immediate support for businesses in urgent situations
30 October 2024

BIRCH LEGAL is actively developing its initiative on “Express legal support for businesses undergoing emergencies” in which our lawyers have already successfully defended a client in a criminal case on embezzlement.

BIRCH LEGAL announces that Vladislav Eltovskiy has joined its IP and IT Law practice as a Counsel
1 August 2024

BIRCH LEGAL continues to bolster its ranks in the IP and IT Law practice and TMT sector and announces the welcome of Vladislav Eltovskiy into the team.

Winning the first national award for the Best Law Firm Marketing
18 September 2023

In February of this year, we announced the launch of our new site which the entire BIRCH LEGAL team contributed to in terms of its design and content.