Magisters (formerly Magister & Partners) was established in 1997 and initially specialized in international trade law. Today Magisters is a full-service, international law firm, advising leading global and domestic organizations throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Magisters employs more than 130 internationally trained and locally experienced lawyers in its Astana, Kyiv, Minsk and Moscow offices. In 2009 the Firm also announced the opening of a representative office in London.
The Firm is consistently recognized by Chambers, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, IFLR 1000 and others for the quality of its work in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, dispute resolution, corporate and commercial law, real estate and construction, tax, and international trade.
Magisters assists numerous governmental and inter-governmental organizations, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), UEFA, the International Court of Arbitration (ICC, Paris), and the World Bank. Magisters is a member of international law firm associations including Lex Mundi, Globalaw, Taxand, and FraudNet. These affiliations along with its network of correspondent arrangements, allow Magisters to provide the best-in-class cross-border legal advice in the CIS and worldwide.
Magisters is dedicated to providing superior client care and enhancing its business processes. Managed by Jason E. Bruzdzinski, COO with more than 20 years of relevant experience, Magisters is the only law firm in the CIS to have attained the international Investors in People accreditation.
Magisters' clients include Altimo, Alfa Group Consortium, Bayer, Bonduelle, Centertelecom, Chernomorneftegaz, Evraz Group, EuroChem, Gazprombank, Ingosstrakh, Interpipe, Mechel Steel Group, Microsoft, Mittal Steel, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Naftogaz of Ukraine, Neusiedler, Novolipetsk Steel, Oriflame, Pernod Ricard, Renaissance, Renova, Shell, Sibirtelecom, Sistema, U.S. Steel, Vnesheconombank, VimpelCom, Yahoo! Inc., Zaporozhstal, and Zarubezhneft. |
