On April 23, 2025, Kommersant Publishing House held an award ceremony for the participants of the ranking “Legal Services Market Leaders 2025”.

This year Orion significantly expanded its presence in the ranking, taking the leading position in Band 1 in 11 categories for the best legal and industry practices significant for the Russian legal market.

Moreover, Orion's finance practice was recognized as the undisputed leader, awarded 1st place within Band 1, in the category “Banking and finance: Advising Leaders in the Financial and Banking Sector”.

Twelve Orion lawyers, including all partners, were recognized as the best Russian legal experts in 26 categories in the individual ranking.

This major recognition emphasizes the high level of Orion’s team expertise, which offers our clients high quality legal solutions.

See the full version of the ranking in Russian here.

Best Legal Practices — Band 1

• PPP / Infrastructure Projects

• Corporate law: Mergers and acquisitions of Russian assets: High-End

• Corporate law: Mergers and acquisitions of International assets: High-End

• International litigations

• International commercial arbitration

• Tax Law: Advising on tax legislation

• Capital Markets

Best Industry Practices — Band 1

• TMT (telecommunications, media, technology)

• Banking and finance: Advising Leaders in the Financial and Banking Sector

• Private equity

• Energy and Natural Resources: Advising natural resource industry leaders

Best lawyers

Roman Bakhanets, Partner

• Private equity

Grigory Gadzhiev, Partner

• Corporate law / Mergers and acquisitions

• Manufacturing and Industry

• TMT (telecommunications, media, technology)

• Energy and Natural Resources

Evgeny Zelensky, Partner

• Corporate law / Mergers and acquisitions

• Capital Markets

Maria Ziborova, Partner

• Energy and Natural Resources

Maxim Kraynov, Partner, Head of Project Finance

• Banking and finance

• Energy and Natural Resources

Nikolay Kurmashev, Partner

• Banking and finance

• Energy and Natural Resources

Vladimir Melnikov, Partner

• International commercial arbitration

• International litigations

• Sanctions Law

• Private Equity

• Energy and Natural Resources

Konstantin Olefir, Partner

• Corporate law / Mergers and acquisitions

• TMT (telecommunications, media, technology)

Maria Borodina, Counsel

• Corporate law / Mergers and acquisitions

Alexander Khretinin, Counsel

• International commercial arbitration

• International litigations

• Sanctions Law

Anna Vashutina, Senior Associate

• Capital Markets

Roman Khaminskiy, Head of International Compliance

• Compliance

• Private Equity