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.
Testimonials
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‘Simply put, Avellum's commercial, corporate and M&A practice is second to none in its market. Superior professionalism, experience and solution driven approach - these are the attributes that have convinced me years ago to stick with Avellum in all matters related to M&A and corporate practice.’
‘Yuriy Nechayev has consistently been an undisputed and unrivaled M&A lawyer in Ukraine. Vast experience, insatiable drive for knowledge, thoughtful and solution driven approach, incredible skills in finding and nurturing junior lawyers - just some of the qualities I absolutely like about him.’
‘Very client-oriented team, with strong and wide experience, deep market understanding, various well-developed practices complementing each other.’
‘Individuals always deliver 110%, we have never been disappointed with the quality of the services provided. Special thanks to partners Yuriy Nechaev and Kostiantyn Likarchuk, and the teams they lead. ’
‘I think one of the best teams in Ukraine. I also like that they not only looking the agreement, but help counterparties to negotiate looking decisions.’
‘Knowledge level and help with negotiations.’
Key clients
- Kernel
- Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU)
- Diligent Capital Partners
- Roosh Ventures
- LLC “HEE “American University Kyiv”
- ZE PAK SA
Work highlights
- Acted as the legal counsel to all parties of the transaction in connection with the acquisition of a minority stake in Neurons Lab by Roosh.
- Advised Aristocrat Leisure Limited, a leading global gaming content and technology company and top-tier mobile games publisher, in connection with the $1.2 billion acquisition of NeoGames, a global leader in content and technology solutions for the online Real-Money Gaming industry.
- Advised managing partners of American University Kyiv on law matters in a broad range of corporate, M&A, antitrust, tax and IP issues related to the establishment of a new world-class private university in Kyiv, operated by an international joint venture.
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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.
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Andriy Romanchuk is a counsel at AVELLUM’s corporate practice with the primary focus on corporate and M&A, tax and banking law.
Andriy regularly advises international and Ukrainian clients on various Ukrainian law matters arising in commercial transactions. His experience includes advising clients on cross-border corporate transactions, transaction structuring and corporate restructurings.
Practice head
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Mykola Stetsenko