ALARIUS Attorneys at Law is a team of leading professionals in all areas of law, providing high quality professional solutions to clients’ legal challenges. For more than 10 years, our team has been assisting clients in developing and expanding their businesses and resolving even the most complex legal issues. Our core principles are reliability, confidentiality, and the highest professional and reputational standards. Our clients’ success is our success, and we are committed to achieving the best possible results in both the international and domestic legal arenas.

The ALARIUS team offers a comprehensive range of services across the following practice areas:

• Corporate / M&A
• Real Estate and Construction
• Bankruptcy and Debt Restructuring
• Litigation
• Business Protection
• Compliance
• Criminal Defence
• White-Collar Crime
• International Trade / Foreign Investment
• Tax Practice
• Intellectual Property
• Labour Law
• Family and Inheritance Law
• Competition Law

Our clients include major Ukrainian companies, top managers, investors, and key executives of international companies, whose cooperation strengthens our confidence in our capabilities and expertise.

Rankings & Recognition

TOP-50 Leading Law Firms of Ukraine (by Yurydychna Praktyka). ALARIUS has shown consistent year-on-year growth in this ranking: the firm placed 34th in the 2024 edition and climbed to 28th place in the 2025 edition — one of the more notable upward movements among mid-sized Ukrainian firms that year.

Market Leaders (by Yurydychna Gazeta). ALARIUS has been recognized in this ranking for three consecutive years, with its footprint expanding each cycle:

• 2024: recognized in two practice areas — Construction/Real Estate and Corporate Law/M&A
• 2025: included among the leaders of the Ukrainian legal market
• 2026: recognition expanded to five practice areas — Construction/Real Estate; War-related Damages Documentation and Recovery; Corporate Law/M&A/Investments; Criminal Law and Procedure; and Tax Law/Consulting

The addition of criminal and tax law in 2026 reflects the firm’s broadening expertise beyond its traditional real estate and corporate core.

The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa. ALARIUS was first awarded recognition in the Legal 500 EMEA 2025 edition and confirmed its position in the 2026 edition across two practice areas:

• Real Estate and Construction (Tier 3) — the practice is noted for its strength in legal audits and due diligence of real estate assets, land plots and ownership rights, acquisitions and disposals, tax-efficient structuring, and end-to-end transactional support for local and international investors. Clients describe Viktor Surnyk as highly trusted within the Ukrainian legal community and note the firm’s thorough, industry-aligned approach — from structuring agreements through to protecting investments in court. Key clients include PJSC “HC Kyivmiskbud” and Contactbudservis.
• Dispute Resolution (Firms to Watch) — the practice represents major Ukrainian businesses, top managers, investors and executives of international companies in economic disputes, administrative cases, and conflicts involving state and regulatory bodies.

Client’s Choice: TOP-100 Lawyers of Ukraine (by Yurydychna Gazeta). Managing Partner Viktor Surnyk was named among the top professionals in Ukraine in the 2023 edition, recognized as a practice leader in both Corporate/M&A and Construction/Real Estate.

Ukrainian Law Firms: A Handbook for Foreign Clients. Viktor Surnyk was recognized as one of the leading experts in the Ukrainian real estate market for the 2023–2024 edition. ALARIUS was included again in the 2025 edition of the Handbook.

“Lawyer of the Year — 2025” (All-Ukrainian competition by the Ukrainian Bar Association). The ALARIUS team secured three wins in this national competition, reflecting recognition by peers across the firm’s key practice areas.

Among the firm’s notable recent matters, ALARIUS provided comprehensive legal support for the commissioning of eight residential complexes in Kyiv for Kyivmiskbud, one of Ukraine’s largest state developers, including full legal analysis of land, permitting, and urban planning documentation across the projects. The firm also advised on a complex transaction involving the acquisition of a commercial shopping centre in Kyiv structured through the purchase of corporate rights of the asset-owning company, requiring coordinated compliance with Ukrainian antitrust, corporate, land, and tax legislation, including clearance from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.

Viktor Surnyk, Managing Partner of ALARIUS and head of the dispute resolution and real estate and construction practices, continues to be recognized among the leading experts of the Ukrainian real estate and corporate markets, having been ranked among the top professionals in the Corporate/M&A and Construction/Real Estate categories in “Client’s Choice: TOP-100 Lawyers of Ukraine.”