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Asters Represents PrivatBank in USD 2 Billion Litigation

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Asters, working with Hogan Lovells, has represented PrivatBank in multi-billion-dollar litigation against its former owners, Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, before the High Court of Justice in London.

PrivatBank is Ukraine’s largest state-owned bank.

According to Asters, on July 30, 2025, the English court ruled that the two former shareholders had misappropriated nearly USD 2 billion of the bank’s funds through a complex re-lending scheme. The final amount of liability is to be determined in a follow-up hearing later this year and is expected to exceed USD 2 billion, including interest accrued over more than a decade.

The Asters team included Managing Partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy, Partner Oksana Legka, Counsels Anna Tkachova, Oleksandr Frolov, Daryna Ushchapivska, and Sviatoslav Ogreba, and Associates Ivanna Artemovych and Maksym Zeltser.

Asters at a Glance

Founded in 1995, Asters is the largest Ukrainian law firm with offices in Kyiv, Washington D.C., Brussels and London.

The Firm provides efficient transactional legal advice and represents clients on a broad spectrum of matters arising in the course of doing business in Ukraine. Asters has extensive industry-specific experience and plays a leading role in advising clients in various market sectors.

Asters’ 130-strong legal team combines world-class professionalism and quality with clear understanding of local realities so that our clients receive practically oriented advice in the most client-friendly manner. Asters’ lawyers received law degrees from the best European, Ukrainian and US law schools, including Yale, Harvard, Chicago University.

Asters has consistently remained at the top of the Ukrainian legal market throughout its history being acknowledged as Ukraine Law Firm of the Year by Who's Who Legal (2018-2022), The Lawyer European Awards (2020-2021), Chambers Europe Awards 2020 and holds top positions in the most authoritative international market reviews: The Legal 500, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, IFLR 1000, Who's Who Legal, Best Lawyers.

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