B1 Group wins high places in the Kommersant 2025 Legal Services Market Leaders rankings

24 April 2025

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Kommersant Publishing House has unveiled its annual Legal Services Market Leaders rankings for 2025.

B1’s Tax, Law and Business Support team has gained a string of excellent results, in particular our legal, tax and customs practices. We have received recognition in the following categories: Best Legal Practices, national ranking (12 awards); Best Industry Practices, national ranking (14 awards); and Best Lawyers, national ranking (13 awards) – a 60% improvement from a year earlier.

For a closer look at the rankings, check out Kommersant’s website.

Best Legal Practices, national ranking – 12 awards

Band 1:
- Foreign Trade: Customs Regulation
- Foreign Trade: Currency Regulation
- Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market
- Tax Law: Resolution of Disputes with the FTS
Band 2:
- Arbitration Proceedings. Commercial Dispute Resolution: Mid-Market
- PPP/Infrastructure Projects
- Tax Law: Consulting
- Labor and Immigration Law: Dispute Resolution
- Labor and Immigration Law: Consulting
- Environmental Law
Band 3:
- Intellectual Property: Consulting on Intellectual Property Law
- Sanctions Law

Best Industry Practices, national ranking – 14 awards

Band 1:
- Health Care and Pharmaceuticals: Consulting for Industry Leaders in Medical Services and Pharma
- Health Care and Pharmaceuticals: Resolution of Key Industry Disputes
- Agriculture: Resolution of Key Industry Disputes
Band 2:
- Manufacturing and Industry: Consulting for Industry Leaders
- Manufacturing and Industry: Resolution of Key Industry Disputes
- Retail, Trading and FMCG: Consulting for Industry Leaders
- Agriculture: Consulting for Industry Leaders
- Construction and Real Estate: Consulting on Real Estate Transactions and Construction Projects
- TMT: Consulting for Industry Leaders
- Transport and Logistics: Consulting for Industry Leaders
- Financial Services and Banking: Consulting for Leaders in the Financial Services and Banking Sectors
- Financial Services and Banking: Resolution of Key Disputes in the Banking, Investment and Insurance Sectors
- Energy and Natural Resources: Consulting for Energy Industry Leaders
- Energy and Natural Resources: Consulting for Industry Leaders in Natural Resources

Best Lawyers, national ranking – 13 awards

Band 1:
- Wilhelmina Shavshina – Foreign Trade
- Natalia Aristova – Environmental Law
Band 2:
- Georgy Kovalenko – Public-Private Partnership and Corporate/M&A
- Wilhelmina Shavshina – Manufacturing and Industry
- Alexander Chizhov – Public-Private Partnership
- Natalia Aristova – Public-Private Partnership and Corporate/M&A
- Dmitry Knizhentsev – Tax Law: Dispute Resolution
- Anzhelika Burdeinaia – Public-Private Partnership
Band 3:
- Natalia Aristova – Energy and Natural Resources
- Konstantin Litovkin – Corporate/M&A
- Denis Shaklein – Commercial Dispute Resolution

About B1 Group

B1 Group offers a full range of professional services, covering assurance, strategy, technology, consulting, transactions, valuation, tax, law and business support. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide services of the highest quality in line with global best practices.

In over 35 years in Russia, we have assembled teams with broad expertise and a wealth of experience in delivering the most challenging projects. B1 today unites 4000+ professionals in eleven Russian cities: Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, St. Petersburg, Togliatti, Vladivostok and Chelyabinsk.

We help clients find new solutions, grow, transform and operate their business as well as strengthen their financial and human capital.

www.b1.ru