Ario Law Firm’s Partners Recognized Among the Leaders of ‘Ukrainian Women in Law 2025’ by Yurydychna Gazeta

Partner Anna Sydorovych has been recognized as one of the leading figures in Ukraine’s legal market. Partner Zoryana Skaletska was nominated in the category “Women Leaders: Impact on Practice.”

The Ukrainian Women in Law 2025 research aims to support female lawyers who, despite the challenges of war, actively shape the country, influence the legal landscape, and serve as its strong backbone. As Yurydychna Gazeta noted, “We strive to evaluate how female leadership in the legal profession has evolved since 2022, what currently unites women, empowers them, and helps them move forward.”

The study is based on an analysis of 120 Ukrainian law firms and incorporates expert opinions from legal professionals, the corporate sector, advocacy community, and the editorial team of Yurydychna Gazeta, a leading industry expert.

Since 2016, the editorial board has tracked changes, highlighted major achievements, and assessed gender balance indicators in Ukraine’s legal market. Recent years have seen growing female influence in key legal fields and at partnership levels.

Key criteria of Ukrainian Women in Law 2025 include:

• Recognition on a global scale and inclusion in internationally acclaimed rankings (The Chambers, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, etc.);

• Editorial expert evaluations by Yurydychna Gazeta;

• Social and civic engagement, including participation in public events, professional organizations, legislative initiatives, and effective cooperation with public institutions;

• Women’s impact on shaping legal practice trends and their significant contributions to professional, civic, and political life amid full-scale war;

• Peer cross-recommendations based on survey votes;

• Women holding partnership or business ownership positions.

The full study is available here: https://yur-gazeta.com/publications/legal-business-in-ukraine/ukrainian-women-in-law--2025.html

Anna Sydorovych, partner at Ario Law Firm, heads the Western Ukraine office. She specializes in corporate law and M&A, commercial and tax law, and dispute resolution.

Anna also teaches law at Kyiv School of Economics.

She has been repeatedly recognized as one of Ukraine’s top female lawyers in the annual Ukrainian Women in Law research by Yurydychna Gazeta and has earned national rankings in dispute resolution practice.

Partner Zoryana Skaletska specializes in medical law. She served as Ukraine’s Minister of Health from 2019 to 2020. Zoryana is an expert analyst in medical and pharmaceutical law, has advised international organizations, and is a co-author of legislative drafts and expert opinions in the field of healthcare regulation and medical services.

Since 2006, she has worked at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, initially in the Department of International Law and Special Legal Sciences, and later in the Department of International and European Law. Since 2014, she has held the position of Associate Professor, and since 2015, she has served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law. She teaches courses on Human Rights and Biomedicine, as well as Medical Law. Zoryana also directs the program on “Ethical and Legal Issues of Bioethics, Pharmaceutical and Medical Law” at the Center for International Human Rights Protection at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.