This year the total number of nominees in the rating increased by 30%, which indicates increased competition among the recommended experts.

The ranking recommends LEVEL Legal Services lawyers in the categories:

• Alexey Dudko, Senior Partner - International Litigation, International Arbitration, Private Equity

• Leonid Ervits, Managing Partner - Corporate/M&A (high market), Financial/Banking Law, Private Equity

• Denis Almakaev, Partner - International Litigation, International Arbitration, Private Equity

• Maria Baeva, Partner - Corporate/M&A (High Market), TMT (Telecommunications, Media and Technology), Retail, FMCG, Public Catering

• Sergey Lyubimov, Partner - Real Estate, Land, Construction

• Anatoly Andriyash, Partner - Natural Resources/Energy

• Vironika Pilyugina, Partner - Intellectual Property (Protection of Rights and Litigation), Intellectual Property (Consulting), Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare, Retail, FMCG, Public Catering

• Serafima Pankratova, Counsel - Retail, FMCG, Catering

• Anna Belova, Counsel - International Arbitration, Sanctions Law

In total, LEVEL Legal Services law firm took high positions in 15 researched categories of the federal rating "Law-300", as well as won in special nominations "Crisis Support of the Client" and "Pro Bono at LegalCharity" in 2022.

The individual ranking methodology is based on a project methodology using information from law firm questionnaires for the research period from September 2021 to September 2022 in 35 federal and 12 regional ranking categories. To get into the rating of recommended specialists, lawyers had to participate not only in three cases specified in the questionnaire, but also lead projects that received the highest score in the main rating by practice areas and industries.