Researchers of the U.S. legal rating Best Lawyers named Capital Legal Services partner Irina Onikienko the best lawyer in labor law for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. In the course of the research, lawyers assess the work of their peers working in the same region and practice area.

Traditionally, the rating researchers have noted Capital Legal Services lawyers in the following categories:

• Arbitration and Mediation – CLS Managing Partner Vladislav Zabrodin, Partner Irina Onikienko;
• Construction Law – Partner Irina Onikienko;
• Corporate Law – Managing Partner Vladislav Zabrodin, Partner Pavel Karpunin;
• Energy and Natural Resources Law – Partner Pavel Karpunin;
• Investment – Partner Pavel Karpunin;
• Litigation – Partner Irina Onikienko;
• Mining Law – Of Counsel Kyle Davis;
• Mergers and Acquisitions Law – Managing Partner Vladislav Zabrodin, Partner Pavel Karpunin; Of Counsel Kyle Davis;
• Real Estate Law – Managing Partner Vladislav Zabrodin, Partners Irina Onikienko and Elena Stepanova.

This year, over 4,000 lawyers from Moscow and the Russian regions made the recommended list. Over 80 of them received the Lawyer of the Year award.

To read more about the research, please visit the official web site at https://www.bestlawyers.com/