After analysing the best practices in the Russian legal market, Kommersant has ranked BGP Litigation in the top in 16 categories. The Firm’s Partners were personally named in 5 categories of the individual ranking.

Based on its performance in 2020, BGP Litigation was included on the following categories of the “Best Legal Practices” ranking:

• Commercial litigation: resolution of high-end commercial disputes
• International litigation
• International commercial arbitration
• Tax law: tax law consulting
• Corporate bankruptcy
• Family law and wills: structuring inherited assets
• Family law and wills: disputes on divorces, division of property and inherited assets
• Antitrust law: consulting
• Criminal law: economic crime

In the “Best Practices by Industry” ranking, the Firm has been distinguished in the following areas:

• Energy and natural resources: advising the leaders in the natural resources industry
• Energy and natural resources: resolution of key disputes in oil and gas
• Energy and natural resources: resolution of key disputes in energy
• Finance and banking: advising the leaders in the finance and banking sector
• Finance and banking: resolution of key disputes in banking, investment and insurance services
• Production: advising the industry leaders
• Production: resolution of key industry disputes

BGP Litigation Partners recommended in the “Best Lawyers Ranking”:

Alexander Vaneev – International Commercial Arbitration and Bankruptcy

Dmitry Bazarov – Resolution of Commercial Disputes

Alexander Golikov – Tax

Irina Akimova – Antitrust / Competition

Kommersant’s annual ranking is based on a research of the top law firm practices by the principal areas of law and aims to present an up-to-date and structured picture of the market. Studies of the market for legal services in a given calendar year are carried out based on an analysis of information from four sources: questionnaires of the ranking participants, a comparative analysis of the firms’ positions in the preceding year, opinions of the Kommersant journalists and those of Kommersant’s advisory board.

See the full ranking here.