Kirill Ponasyuk

• Commercial disputes;
• Corporate disputes;
• Bank disputes;
• Bankruptcy disputes;
• Consulting and estimation of management risks of key LKP clients when making transactions with assets.

Individual awards and nominations:



He is in the list of leading lawyers of Russia in the category of Litigation according to the international rating Best Lawyers Russia 2021.

Kirill heads the Dispute Resolution practice and has been successfully resolving complex litigation for more than 10 years. He specializes in resolving corporate conflicts and complex litigation projects, commercial disputes and bankruptcy cases, disputes in the field of real estate and construction, bank disputes. In addition, Kirill is engaged in consulting and assessing the management risks of LKP key clients when making transactions with assets, as well as protecting the business from takeover.

Kirill has the status of an advocate and is recommended by the international rating of Best Lawyers (Russia) in the field of dispute resolution (Litigation).

Kirill's portfolio includes successful cases involving PJSC PROMSVYAZBANK, PJSC Transneft, Consortium of Industrial Technologies enterprises, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, JSC INTECO, Tashir group, Etalon Group, Lacoste, Pharmacy A.V.e (pharmacy chain 36,6), JSC ROSTA, MOEK, etc.

Kirill's experience on some of the latest projects includes:

representing the interests of the minority shareholder in the corporate conflict of the largest company in the construction of oil pipelines and ground structures, including 40+ disputes for a total amount of claims of more than 3.5 billion rubles, and its settlement by signing a comprehensive settlement agreement;

- representing the interests of the minority shareholder in the corporate conflict of the largest company in the construction of oil pipelines and ground structures, including 40+ disputes for a total amount of claims of more than 3.5 billion rubles, and its settlement by signing a comprehensive settlement agreement;

- comprehensive protection of the client in the dispute with an oil refining company on the claim for debt collection in the amount of 240 million rubles and representation of interests in the bankruptcy of the company, including protection of the client's transaction and bringing the debtor's controlling persons to subsidiary liability;

- recovery of losses from the CEO in the process of a corporate conflict of a large IT company with the subsequent sale of property by initiating the director's personal bankruptcy procedure;

- protection of the client in the dispute with JSC Oboronenergo (Ministry of Defense of Russia) on the claim for debt collection in the amount of 160 million rubles under the contract for the maintenance of electric grid facilities on the territory of military units of the Republic of Crimea;

- comprehensive protection of a client (the manufacturer of medicines) in a dispute with the construction company for debt collection in the amount of 180 million rubles under the contract for the construction of the pharmaceutical plant and representation of interests in the bankruptcy of the company;

- protection of the customer (supplier of industrial equipment) in the dispute with the subsidiary of PJSC Transneft on the claim for invalidation of the transaction in the amount of 359 million rubles;

- protection of clients in disputes with PJSC Promsvyazbank in lawsuits challenging the banking commission collected by the bank from customers in the amount of 33 million rubles;

- protection of the investment company (Hong Kong) in the dispute with the company for the extraction of tin in the Jewish Autonomous region on the suit for recovery of debt under the investment agreement in the amount of 1.7 million USD;