Kinstellar is a leading independent law firm in Emerging Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, with 11 offices in Almaty, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Istanbul, Kyiv, Nur-Sultan, Prague, Sofia and Tashkent.

The Kinstellar Kyiv office was launched in 2016 with a team of highly-skilled legal professionals with long-term experience handling major transactions for leading international and domestic clients in Ukraine across a wide spectrum of business sectors. Today, Kinstellar Kyiv is the leading independent international law firm on the market and one of the largest law firms in Ukraine, with 60 lawyers, including 10 partners.

Kinstellar Kyiv operates as an internationally oriented full-service practice focused on Antitrust/Competition, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, CRSI (Compliance, Risk & Sensitive Investigations), Dispute Resolution, Employment & Labor Law, IT & IP, Restructuring & Insolvency, Tax and White-Collar Crime. The expertise of Kinstellar lawyers also allows the firm to make a shift towards the industry focus, offering complex advisory to Agriculture, Automotive & Industrials, Aviation, Banks & Financial Institutions, Energy & Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Private Equity, Real Estate, TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications) sector clients.

Kinstellar’s team of Infrastructure experts has unrivalled experience handling the legal aspects of some of the largest (in-land and cross-border) infrastructure and other projects in the region. In the sea port industry, the firm has been providing complex legal advice to port operators, private terminals, dredging and shipping companies, international consortiums doing business in Ukraine. Notably, Kinstellar became the first law firm to advise on Ukraine’s new concession law, supporting QTerminals of Qatar on the concession of the Olvia Black Sea Port in southern Ukraine.

Kinstellar Kyiv has been top-ranked in all of its core practice areas according to major international legal directories, including Chambers & Partners, IFLR1000, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Global Investigations Review and Best Lawyers International.

Most recently, CEE Legal Matters awarded Kinstellar Kyiv the 2020 Deal of the Year for Ukraine for its work on the QTerminals WLL Port Concession Project for the Olvia Black Sea Port.