Asters has announced that Counsel Svitlana Chepurna and Senior Associates Yevgen Kravtsov, Yevgen Porada, Andriy Pozhidayev, and Kostyantyn Solyar have all been promoted to Partner at the firm.
In addition, Senior Associates Gabriel Aslanyan and Oleksiy Demyanenko have been promoted to Counsel. The promotions are effective as of February 28, 2014, and bring the firm's total up to 14 Partners and 6 Counsels.
Asters' Managing Partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy released a statement regarding the promotions: "Asters' continued commitment to retaining and promoting its best human asset is evident in this 2014 promotion class. The promoted lawyers represent Asters' quality, breadth, and depth and demonstrate our ongoing investment in business and the firm's strategic course on incentivizing younger legal talent. This course led recently to a number of other decisions directed at a more efficient partnership organization. We congratulate all newly promoted lawyers and wish them every success in the future."
Partner Armen Khachaturyan added: "These promotions are based on high merits of the new partners and counsels who went a long way from the firm's start-ups to professional maturity. We look forward to having them continuing provision of excellent legal service to the firm's clients, developing its business, enhancing strategy and effective solutions. As a result the firm got an exemplary professional leadership matching Asters' leading position in the market."