World Trademark Review 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals has published the results of its international research highlighting the world’s leading firms and practitioners with a world class trademark expertise. As result of the research process, the firms and individuals featured in the listing have been broken down by three bands, and Pakharenko and Partners as well as its managers Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson and Alexander Pakharenko have been included in the “golden” band.

According to the researchers’ comments, Pakharenko and Partners seems to have “been around for ever”, almost since the time Ukraine gained its independence, combining heritage, quality and consistency so appealing to leading national and international clients. The firm possesses “refined capabilities across the entire spectrum of trademark matters, including redoubtable anti-counterfeiting and plant variety practices”. Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson is named the firm’s “talisman” and “a long-standing market leader”, while Alexander Pakharenko is recognized as “anti-counterfeiting guru” “equally comfortable in civil and criminal trademark proceedings, being an effective communicator who implements creative legal strategies, has a strong relationships with authorities in Ukraine and always protects the client’s interests”.