Europe
Practice Areas
Competition/Antitrust, Competition Litigation, Regulatory
Antonina Yaholnyk, Founding and Managing Partner of CLACIS, has significant experience in handling numerous multijurisdictional cases on antitrust issues like multijurisdictional merger control matters, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance & unfair competition law cases in Ukraine advising numerous multinational and national companies in telecommunications, retail, industry, agriculture, banking and finance, consumer products and beverages, pharmaceutical, shipping, etc.
Career
Mrs. Yaholnyk has overall 28 years of legal practice of which over 20 years of daily experience handling antitrust and compliance matters. Prior to founding CLACIS, she headed Baker & McKenzie’s Competition & Compliance Practice Groups as well as was the head of Competition Practice in one of the leading regional firms.
Professional Memberships
• Fully licensed Advocate in Ukraine since 2004
• Member of Ukrainian National Bar Association
Publications
Antonina Yaholnyk is an author and co-author of numerous publications and books on competition and trade law, some of which are recommended as manuals for students by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine:
• International Trade Law (manual for students), 2005
• Multilateral Trading System – Legal and Economic Aspects (Collection of Essays), 2003
• Accession of Transition Economies to the WTO: Impact on the Development and Regulation of Foreign Direct Investments, 2003
Clients
ArcelorMittal, British American Tobacco, COSCO, Farmastor, Glencore, InBev, Lifecell, Maersk, MasterCard, PepsiCo, Terex Corp., etc.
Languages Spoken
English, German, Polish, Ukrainian
Education
University of Cambridge (UK) (LL.M degree in Law)
World Trade Institute (Switzerland) (Master’s degree in International Law and Economics)
Ivan Franko Lviv National University (Ukraine) (Law and International Law degrees)
University of Viadrina (Germany) (non-degree)
Currently is undergoing English Law qualifications procedure
Awards
• Band 1 practitioner in Competition/Antitrust Ukraine by Chambers Europe (2010 – 2024)
• Tier 1 leading individual in Ukraine according to the Legal 500 EMEA (2018 – 2024)
• Acknowledged by the national ranking “50 Leading Law Firms in Ukraine 2025” in nomination “Practice Leaders” in the area of competition law
• Recognized among “Practice Leaders” in the area of competition law in the ranking “Client's Choice. TOP-100 Lawyers of Ukraine – 2025”: leaders who shape the future”
• Recommended as a Global Leader in Competition by Who’s Who Legal (2020-2023)
• Advocate of the Year in the practice Antitrust and Competition Law according to all-Ukrainian independent public competition “Lawyer of the Year 2023” (2023)
• Recognized as the winner of the Client Choice Award 2022 by the international legal platform Lexology (2022)
• Recommended in competition/antitrust in Ukraine by Best Lawyers (2013-2022)
• Recognized as an expert in the field of antitrust and competition law by the Women in Business Law Expert Guide international rating in 2019, 2021, 2022;
• Leader in antitrust by the Clients' Choice. TOP-100 Lawyers in Ukraine (2021)