Imagine Lawyers is one of the Top 50 most innovative law firms in Europe, by FT Innovative Lawyers 2025
Imagine Lawyers is pleased to announce our recognition in the FT Law Firm Index — Europe 2025, the Financial Times’ flagship assessment of innovation and law-firm performance across Europe. This year’s Index places Imagine Lawyers among the Top 50 participating law firms in Europe, and one of only three Ukrainian firms featured in the table.
The Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Europe project (researched with legal intelligence firm RSGI) is widely regarded as the continent’s leading benchmark for legal innovation and impact. The Index is based on four pillars: Innovation, Digital, People, and Social Responsibility.
What the FT recognition means
For clients and peers, the FT Law Firm Index highlights firms that are not only delivering strong legal outcomes, but also re-engineering their operating models, data practices, and people strategies to do so consistently.
This year, the FT also published detailed case studies across Practice of Law (client work) and Business of Law (how firms run and transform themselves). Imagine Lawyers is highlighted in both streams, underscoring our dual focus on high-stakes client mandates and a modern operating model fit for wartime realities and post-war reconstruction.
Practice of Law: building energy resilience under wartime constraints
In the Infrastructure category of Practice of Law, the FT recognises Imagine Lawyers as Highly commended for our support of a US–Ukraine joint venture on the planned installation and operation of a 50 MW battery energy storage system—among the first of its kind in Ukraine.
This work sits at the intersection of energy security, foreign investment, and complex regulatory execution. The project required structuring around wartime logistics, currency-control restrictions on advance payments, and cross-border supply chains—all while ensuring bankability, warranties, and long-term service commitments.
Business of Law: strategic direction grounded in purpose, talent and agility
In the Business of Law case studies, the FT also recognises Imagine Lawyers for Strategic direction as Highly commended. Founded in 2024 by partners with international firm backgrounds, Imagine Lawyers was built deliberately for agile, on-the-ground delivery in wartime Ukraine, with a strategy oriented towards reconstruction, energy and infrastructure mandates, corporate, tax and competition work, and a people model designed to retain and develop the next generation of Ukrainian legal talent.
How the FT scores were determined
The 2025 programme assessed 584 submissions from 114 law firms and 64 in-house teams. Each published case study is scored for Originality, Leadership, and Impact. For the FT Law Firm Index, the Innovation score aggregates each firm’s top three submissions. The Digital, People, and Social Responsibility scores are drawn from a comparative questionnaire covering technology adoption and data strategy; diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing; and pro bono and ESG governance.
Why this matters for clients
For our clients—multinationals, investors, Ukrainian corporates, and development actors—the FT recognition confirms that Imagine Lawyers can design, lead, and execute novel, high-stakes work under non-standard constraints. Whether navigating currency-control regimes, export restrictions, martial-law procedures, or multi-jurisdictional risk allocation, we bring structured creativity, pragmatic governance, and relentless execution to move complex projects from concept to reality.
A Ukrainian story in a European league table
It is notable that three Ukrainian firms appear in the Top 50 of the FT Law Firm Index — Europe 2025, while several others were also recognised for specific cases. Imagine Lawyers’ inclusion in this European league table, just one year after founding and amid a full-scale war, is both a milestone and a mandate: to continue investing in energy security, infrastructure, corporate transformation, and competition-law clarity, and to help global and Ukrainian businesses deploy capital and capability at the pace reconstruction demands.
We are grateful to our clients and partners for their trust, and to our team for the discipline and imagination that make these results possible.
