OREANDA-NEWS.  January 15, 2014. This year FBK Legal was nominated eleven times in the rating of the leading legal firms of the country in accordance with the Pravo.ru portal.

In Top-50 companies per amount of receipts FBK Legal took the 7th place and per amount of receipts per lawyer the position was even higher – 6. By the number of staff lawyers the company was also among the ten market leaders.

FBK Legal was listed among the best in a number of branch ratings. Under this category the scope, quality and significance of projects implemented by the participant during the last year were evaluated. In particular, the highest level of competence of Company’s lawyers was mentioned in tax and law, natural resources and power industry as well as the arbitration process, corporate law and M&A, commercial real estate and construction, intellectual property and antimonopoly law.

Besides FBK was included in the general rating of liking under which the players in the Russian market of legal services evaluated each other. FBK Legal also took the second place in the branch rating of liking under the “Fiscal law” category.

According to Nadezhda Orlova, FBK Legal managing partner, the periodic Pravo.ru rating showed that the competition in the market of legal services continues to grow and only the strongest keep their positions and win the new ones. “It is significant that the rating reflects the achievements of FBK Legal not only in our traditionally strong fields but also the practices that we have been energetically developing of late. We are glad that the ever growing demand, in particular, for our anti-monopoly practice and the intellectual property practice was rated highly by legal community,” noted Nadezhda Orlova.

The methodology Pravo.ru rating is based on takes into account opinions of the leading Russian and foreign law companies.