VKP is a classic law firm, which operates as a partnership, and shares a common mission, vision and values.
Our mission
We provide our clients with the most effective solutions to their business issues applying our legal expertise.
Our vision
To fulfil our mission, we share a vision of being a diverse-practice independent national firm driven to become the undisputed leader on the Ukrainian market that collaborates effectively with distinguished law firms throughout the world.
Our values
To achieve our vision we have created a unique corporate culture, based on shared values:
- Leadership
- Relations
- Dignity
- Trust
- Responsibility
- Freedom
- Sustainability
- Creativity
Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm is a member of the following business associations and unions:
European Business Association (legal partner)
The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine
U.S.-Ukrainian Business Council
Ukrainian National Committee of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Ukraine)
Membership in the international professional associations
TerraLex – The Worldwide Network of Independent Law Firms
International Bar Association (IBA)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
International Fiscal Association (IFA)
Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA)
Ius Laboris
Membership in the national professional associations
Ukrainian Bar Association
Confederation of Builders of Ukraine
Ukrainian Internet Association
Association Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (legal partner)
The Association of Information Technology Enterprises of Ukraine
Individual membership of VKP lawyers in international professional associations
International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
International Association of the Protection of Intellectual Property Ukrainian group (AIPPI)
International Association of Privacy Professionals
The London Court of International Arbitration
Sustainability
We develop our business and serve our clients through the promotion of values shared by the firm’s partners, employees, and clients. Such approach contributes to the company’s sustainable development, and this is why we focus our CSR activity on the UN’s global Sustainable Development Goals, in particular 3 of them:
Goal 4: Quality education
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Goal 16: Peace and justice
What we do to attain the global goals in Ukraine:
Legal Education
100+ lectures delivered by VKP’s partners at universities
50 trainees annually
10+ years of cooperation with the Students League of the Ukrainian Bar Association
Starting from 2016, VKP is an organizer of the Ukrainian Pre-Moot of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
Each year, the firm’s lawyers participate in and act as coaches and judges at international moot competitions, such as:
- Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court;
- Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot;
- Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court;
- Central and East European Moot Court;
- International Air Law Moot Court.
Culture
VKP's CSR initiatives aiming to support the Ukrainian culture are designed to promote the development of talents and contribute to the recognition of the Ukrainian culture worldwide. Therefore, VKP:
Acts as a permanent legal advisor to Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex.
Supports the activities of NGO Responsible Future, a non-governmental organization helping musically gifted children, including those internally displaced from eastern Ukraine and Crimea, to represent Ukraine internationally.
Decent Work
UAH 95 million paid in taxes over the last 5 years.
We offer equal employment opportunities to everyone, irrespective of sex, age, religion, ethnic origin, disability, marital status, social or employment status, or sexual orientation, while assuming responsibility for payment of all taxes, including a military tax.
Economic Growth
Economic growth in any country is possible only provided that small and medium business is developing, workplaces are available and proper working conditions are secured.
We invest our lawyers’ time to provide legal assistance to various Ministries and governmental departments on pro bono terms to help them develop laws. We also provide free-of-charge assistance to foreign investors in Ukrainian law matters acting as a permanent legal advisor to the European Business Association. In particular, our lawyers provide free-of-charge legal advice to the following EBA Committees:
Agrochemical Committee
Electronic Payments Committee
Grain & Oilseed Committee
Wine and Spirits Committee
IT Committee
Dairy Committee
Health Care Committee
Consumer Electronics Committee
Human Resources Committee
Peace and Justice
VKP supports the Open Court Project aiming to rid the judicial system of corruption and protect citizens’ right to a fair and public trial.
Our Senior Partner Vasil Kisil is a member of the Judicial Reform Committee with the President of Ukraine.
Charity
VKP supports the activities of:
Ukrainian Philanthropists Forum and provides free-of-charge online consultations for charitable and non-governmental organizations who, in their turn, help those in need; and
NGO “Initiative Е+” which helps children of the servicemen fighting in the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and the heroes who died there.
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