Every year our lawyers make it into the ranking Client's Choice: 100 Best Lawyers of Ukraine. The Yurydychna Gazeta (Legal Gazette) asks its readers - corporate lawyers - who they consider to be the best in particular fields of law.

At the end of July, a competition was held to form the Public Oversight Board of the National Healthcare Service of Ukraine (NHSU). In order to participate, civic organizations dealing with the protection of patients' rights and freedoms, circulation of medicines and other social issues in the field of healthcare nominated their candidates.

In June, the annual survey “Ukrainian Law Firms 2019. A Handbook for Foreign Clients” was released. It’s a guide to Ukraine’s legal market for foreign companies and organizations, which studies projects that law firms worked on over the past year in various areas of business and law and names the best ones in their fields, thus helping potential clients find the right legal adviser.

Instead of promoting legal use of hired labor in Ukraine and adopting a new Labor Code, the state only tightened control. This is one of the key trends in this area in 2018.

Changes in healthcare are probably the most successful of the announced reforms in Ukraine yet. Its authors from the very beginning had clear goals and a strategy for achieving them as well as professional advocacy of the reform by lawyers among doctors as well society as a whole.

In 2018, the Law “On Companies with Additional and Limited Liability” (LLC law) came into force in Ukraine. It cleared up the legal status of most companies in the country (those registered in this form) and made relations between members more flexible.