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.
Testimonials
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‘ The level of collaboration is always satisfying and highly meets our expectations; - professionals from this practice are really experienced and committed to support our business with the highest level of quality - White-collar crime of Avellum is very stable practice in terms of team members, which is a big advantage comparing to other law firms, that suffered in this regards during the times of uncertainty in Ukraine.’
‘We reached out to Avellum shortly after the outbreak of the war and despite the very difficult circumstances, they were able to immediately assist us. The experience we had with the team was excellent and we look forward to working with them again in the future. ’
‘Kostiantyn Likarchuk: We worked with Kostiantyn and his team on a recent case and were very happy. Kostiantyn thinks creatively and out of the box to deliver a client's commercial goal. ’
‘Clever, shrewd and able to see the big picture.’
‘Vadim Medvedev - has gravitas of a more senior partner. Andriy Fortunenko - really bright and strategically minded.’
‘The team approaches legal matters with great professionalism. They demonstrate a great knowledge of the law and are constantly updating their knowledge. ’
‘Andrei Fortutenko is an exceptional lawyer, consistent in the quality provided and very reliable. ’
‘They have in-depth knowledge of what is important in Ukrainian criminal cases and go to great lengths in order to achieve the clients' goals. Can handle tens of thousands of pages of documents and high workload in an efficient manner.’
Key clients
- Group of shareholders of Fintech Band
- State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine
- British American Tobacco (BAT Ukraine)
- Innovatus Capital Partners
Work highlights
- Represented a global IT company in a internal investigation into cyber fraud.
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Vadim Medvedev, Kostyantyn Likarchuk, Andriy Fortunenko