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 advised the Cherkizovo Group on the acquisition of the Healthy Farm Group
26 December 2022

BIRCH LEGAL provided full scale legal support to the Cherkizovo Group with the acquisition of the Healthy Farm agricultural holding company’s facilities.

BIRCH LEGAL advised Avito Work on the acquisition of HR Messenger
16 December 2022

BIRCH LEGAL provided full scale legal support to Avito Work with the acquisition of a controlling stake in HR Messenger, a recruitment and staff adaptation automation service.

BIRCH LEGAL advised shareholders of Medical On Group on the sale of a network of multifunctional clinics to Medscan Holding
6 December 2022

BIRCH LEGAL provided full scale legal support for Medical On Group’s sale of their Russian business, a network of multifunctional clinics, to Medscan Holding.

BIRCH LEGAL is delighted to announce the arrival of Counsel Timur Akhundov
17 November 2022

Moscow, November 17, 2022. The BIRCH LEGAL team continues to develop its corporate and commercial law practice with the arrival of Timur Akhundov.

BIRCH LEGAL continues to strengthen its position and announces the joining of an ex-BCLP team
19 May 2022

Moscow, May 19, 2022. Among the new colleagues are Anton Sitnikov, ex-Senior Partner and Head of Corporate / M&A, and Vera Gorbacheva, ex-Associate Director, Corporate / M&A at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.