On 26 November saw the rewarding of winners of the Second Scholarship Contest in the area of corporate law established by Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm in cooperation with the Students League of All-Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organization «Ukrainian Bar Association».
First place and a prize of 5,000 hryvnias went to Illya Chernogorenko, a student of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Second place with a prize of 3,000 hryvnias were taken by Tetyana Mykhailenko, a student of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Third place and a prize of 2,000 hryvnias went to Stepanyda Badovska, a student of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.
The prizes and certificates were awarded to the winners by Maksym Lavrynovych, Managing Partner of Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm, who also gave presents to the authors of the top ten selected papers.
The contest was aimed at the professional development of students, promotion of research in the area of corporate law. Entries were submitted from 20 September to 20 October 2012. The contest involved law students from 13 universities in Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Lviv, Chernivtsi and Ostrog. The judging panel of the contest, who analyzed the papers submitted, included Iryna Marushko, Partner of Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm; Ph.D. Volodymyr Bobryk, Head of the Scientific Department at The Scientific Research Institute of Private Law and Business of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; the Board of the Students League