Kosta Legal Maintains Tier 1 Ranking in the Legal 500 EMEA 2025

We are pleased to announce that Kosta Legal has once again been ranked as a Tier 1 firm in the Legal 500 EMEA 2025 guide. The ranking reflects our continued commitment to delivering practical, high-level legal advice across key areas of law, including corporate and M&A, competition, banking and finance, PPP and infrastructure, dispute resolution, and real estate.

This year’s guide highlights the firm’s prominent role in advising on PPP and infrastructure development, with a strong focus on social and utilities sector projects. Kosta Legal is also praised for its dispute resolution capabilities, particularly in handling cross-border litigation and arbitration matters for international clients.

We are delighted to see individual recognition given to our lawyers for their outstanding work:

• Vazgen Grigoryan, head of our Dispute Resolution practice, is ranked as a Leading Individual. He is noted for his experience in international arbitration and complex cross-border disputes and is described as “the most experienced and skilled lawyer in Uzbekistan.”
  
  
• Leading firm’s PPP and Infrastructure practice, Nail Hassanov is also recognized as a Leading Individual. The Legal 500 highlights his “profound knowledge and expertise” and his ability to provide “a very professional and justified legal basis to any case”.
  
  
• Shukhrat Yunusov, head of Banking and Finance practice, is listed as a Next Generation Partner in recognition of his exceptional credentials in banking, finance, and capital markets. His transactional experience and regulatory knowledge continue to enhance the firm’s offering.
  
  
• Head of Corporate, M&A, and Competition Maxim Dogonkin is also named a Next Generation Partner. Clients describe him as “an outstanding professional” whose expertise “makes the life of clients much easier while working in the Central Asian markets.”
  
  
• Azizbek Akhmadjonov, who leads our Real Estate and Construction practice, is praised by clients for “showing the realistic, rational and professional legal solutions in projects.”
  
  
• Jakhongir Olimjonov, a member of the firm’s PPP and Infrastructure practice, is recognized as a Rising Star. His growing profile is reflected in his active involvement in large-scale PPP projects, where he provides legal support across various stages of project structuring, development, and implementation.

We are grateful to our clients and colleagues for their continued trust and support. As always, we remain focused on providing clear, commercially driven legal solutions tailored to the needs of businesses operating in Uzbekistan.

For more details, please visit the Legal 500 website.