On 21 June 2013 Ukrainian weekly Yurydychna hazeta held an awarding ceremony for the 100 Best Lawyers in Ukraine based on all-Ukrainian study the Choice of the Clients 2012-2013. According to the research 7 Asters' partners are in the list of top 100 lawyers in Ukraine, namely, Managing Partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy, Senior Partner Armen Khachaturyan, Partners Roman Kostenko, Oleksandr Padalka, Iryna Pokanay, Vadym Samoilenko, and Igor Svechkar.
The study also presented results in key practices specifying the best hundred lawyers. The list of finalists in the Antimonopoly Law includes Igor Svechkar; in Banking & Finance – Armen Khachaturyan and Iryna Pokanay; in Energy and Natural Resources, Real Estate and Construction – Roman Kostenko; Intellectual Property – Oleksandr Padalka; Corporate Law and M&A – Oleksiy Didkovskiy and Vadym Samoilenko; Securities and Stock Market – Armen Khachaturyan and Iryna Pokanay.
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Client's Choice – is an annual all-Ukrainian study of the quality of legal services provided by Ukrainian lawyers and determination of the best and the most authoritative lawyers in Ukraine by clients voting directly through questionnaires. The main principles of the study include objectivity and impartiality, the focus on the customer, transparent methodology, absence of narrow ranking and focus on the lawyer's personality.