AVELLUM acted as the Ukrainian legal counsel to the Netherlands based Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group on the acquisition of BENTELER Distribution Ukraine, a part of the international distribution division of BENTELER International AG.

AVELLUM advised Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group on the structuring of the transaction, conducted legal due diligence of the Ukrainian part of the target business, and drafted certain transaction documents.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP acted as the global legal counsel to Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group.

Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group is one of the leading distributors of pipe and tube materials in Europe.

The AVELLUM team was led by associate Dmytro Symbiryov, with support from associates, Maryna Buinytska, Yuliia Chelebii-Kravchenko, and Oleksii Izotov, under the supervision of co-managing partner Mykola Stetsenko.