Avellum

Glib Bondar is a senior partner at AVELLUM and Head of Finance and Debt Restructuring Practice. Glib focuses on financings, capital markets and debt restructurings. Glib’s additional expertise spans over energy and infrastructure projects. The last 22 years of his legal practice Glib devoted to international financing and capital markets projects from Ukraine and was involved in many of the high profile and landmark cross-border lending, eurobond offerings and debt restructurings for Ukrainian sovereign/quasi-sovereign, municipal and corporate borrowers. He represented international and local clients, including major investment and commercial banks, financial institutions and corporates.

Andriy Fortunenko

Andriy Fortunenko is a Partner at AVELLUM’s Dispute Resolution practice and Head of White-Collar Crime Practice. Andriy regularly represents national and foreign clients before the law enforcement and regulatory authorities. He has extensive experience in criminal cases related to fraud, embezzlement, cybercrime, and corruption-related offences. Andriy also handles complex multi-jurisdictional investigations into money laundering and represents the clients before INTERPOL. Andriy’s track record include defending state officials and MPs in criminal cases investigated by the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine and heard by the High Anticorruption Court.

Kostiantyn Likarchuk

Kostiantyn Likarchuk is a Senior Partner of AVELLUM and Head of International Arbitration practice. He focuses on international arbitration, complex cross-border litigation proceedings, assets tracing and recovery, corporate investigations, and international aspects of white-collar crime. Kostiantyn has significant experience advising clients on various antitrust matters. Kostiantyn represents clients in Ukrainian civil, commercial and administrative courts of all instances and acts as counsel before arbitral tribunals in major arbitration forums. He advises, along with leading global dispute resolution practices, on all aspects of litigation strategies, including on numerous cases involving major common law jurisdictions. He acts for international and Ukrainian businesses and investors in their international arbitration and cross-border litigation matters. Kostiantyn also regularly acts as expert on Ukrainian law before foreign courts, including English courts and arbitral tribunals.

Maksym Maksymenko

Maksym Maksymenko is a Partner at AVELLUM and the Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure. Influential agricultural producers, developers, financial institutions, lodging companies, oil&gas companies, port operators, and retailers follow Maksym’s business-oriented advice on all land, construction, real estate, infrastructure and subsoil use matters, which helps them to triumph over the competitors. Maksym acted on 1,100+ real estate and infrastructure projects over the last 16 years. Moreover, Maksym is a regular contributor to the various working groups in the Ukrainian Parliament, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, and the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre. For two years in a row, he also gave lectures at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Maksym devoted his PhD thesis to optimisation of land use structure in Ukraine. Maksym aimed to facilitate such land use, which will streamline the economic growth for the benefit of Ukrainian society with minimal negative impact on the environment.

Vadim Medvedev is a Partner with AVELLUM’s tax practice and specialises in tax and succession planning matters. He has significant experience advising clients in international tax planning, transaction structuring and succession planning matters. He also provides general corporate and commercial advice.

Yuriy Nechayev is a partner at AVELLUM’s corporate practice with the primary focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and private equity. Yuriy regularly advises international and Ukrainian companies on various aspects of their business activities in Ukraine. His experience includes advising clients on the aspects of a wide range of major cross-border corporate transactions. Yuriy also advises his clients on various matters of commercial law.

Mykyta Nota is a Partner and the Head of AVELLUM's Competition practice. He focuses on competition & antitrust, arbitration, and cross-border litigation. Mykyta advises clients on all aspects of competition & antitrust law, involving merger control, concerted practices, abuse of dominance, state aid, unfair competition, and competition litigation. He also counsels on antitrust matters in relation to multinational and domestic acquisitions and joint ventures, including merger clearances by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. He regularly acts for clients in international arbitrations under the ICC and LCIA Arbitration Rules. Mykyta Nota boasts over 11 years’ experience in representing clients in post-M&A and shareholders’ disputes in high-profile cross-border matters across various sectors like fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), energy, agriculture, banking, and the real estate sectors. Mykyta is experienced in resolving complex competition disputes involving multinational companies, particularly claims on private enforcement of competition law and annulment of decisions of the competition authority.

Mykola Stetsenko

Mykola Stetsenko is the co-managing partner at AVELLUM and the Head of Corporate/M&A Practice. His additional expertise covers tax, competition, and real estate. Mykola has extensive experience in all types of corporate transactions, including acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs, and corporate governance advice. He advises on many of the firm’s headline deals for its most high-profile clients. All the way through his legal career Mykola focused on complex, multijurisdictional transactions, some of which have set new market precedents and were recognised by many highly respected legal publications, including Chambers, IFLR, and Legal 500. Moreover, he is often involved in drafting of new legislation in Ukraine. Most recently, Mykola was heavily engaged in the development of Ukrainian corporate law, namely regulation of shareholder agreements, LLCs, corporate governance in public companies, and squeeze-out and sell-out mechanisms. Mykola is admitted to practice law in New York.

Anton Zaderyholova