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DACH Desk

Ihre Brücke in die Ukraine — wir beraten Sie gerne auf Deutsch.

Your bridge between the German-speaking world and Ukraine — top-tier Ukrainian legal advice, delivered in German.

AVELLUM’s DACH Desk is the firm’s dedicated gateway for clients from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. We advise DACH-headquartered corporations, companies, banks, funds, and private investors at every stage of their Ukrainian projects — from first market entry through complex transactions to high-stakes disputes — and we support Ukrainian businesses in their ventures across the German-speaking world.

We combine top-tier Ukrainian legal advice with service in German and a first-hand understanding of how DACH businesses think and work. Our DACH-Desk lawyers have worked at (and with) leading firms and in-house teams in Germany, so clients receive advice in their own legal culture at one of Ukraine’s leading law firms.

Why Ukraine, why now

Germany is one of Ukraine’s largest trading partners and among the biggest sources of foreign direct investment; Austrian and Swiss businesses have long-standing roots in the Ukrainian market.

EU accession, reconstruction, and fast-growing defence, energy, agri-food and technology sectors are opening a new generation of opportunities,increasingly de-risked by federal investment guarantees.

AVELLUM SERVICES — through one German-speaking door

The DACH Desk gives German-speaking clients a single, German-language point of entry to the services we provide. Whether your matter concerns market entry, a transaction or tax, real estate, employment, compliance and sanctions, or a dispute, we assemble the right specialists from across the firm and coordinate them for you — one team, one language, one point of contact.

The full list of our practices and industry expertise is described on our Services page.

Ukrainian clients in the DACH region

We also act for Ukrainian businesses in the DACH region: structuring outbound investments, establishing operations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland together with trusted local counsel from our long-standing network, and handling cross-border transactions and disputes with DACH counterparties.

Both legal cultures, one team

GERMAN-LANGUAGE SERVICE

Communication and documents in German, as well as English and Ukrainian.

TIER-1 LEVEL OF SERVICE

AVELLUM’s practice groups - consistently top-ranked by Chambers, The Legal 500, and IFLR1000.

ONE POINT OF ENTRY

A single German-speaking contact scopes your matter, assembles the right team, and stays with you throughout.

UKRAINE, FIRST-HAND

Our team is on the ground in Kyiv. We work through the same realities as our clients every day, which is why our advice reflects not only the law, but how things actually get done in Ukraine.

BOTH LEGAL CULTURES

Our DACH-Desk lawyers with big-law and in-house experience in Germany know what DACH clients expect in style, precision, and reporting.

PARTNER-LED

Every DACH Desk engagement is supervised by the firm’s Managing Partner and Senior Partner.

A STRONG DACH NETWORK

AVELLUM is a member of the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Ukraine) and maintains established relationships with leading independent firms across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Key experience

Corporate law advice related to the global pre-sale reorganisation of the ABB group

6.85

bln USD

Legal advisor to ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd

Eurobond offering of loan participation notes for Bakcell's acquisition of Vodafone Ukraine, including tax matters

500

mln USD

Legal advisor to Raiffeisen Bank International AG and J.P. Morgan Securities plc

Debt override agreement with Nibulon, part of the company's broader debt restructuring programme

171

mln USD

Legal advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG)

Strategic investment transaction structured across Ukrainian and German law, including drafting, negotiating the transaction documents, and managing signing and completion

Legal advisor to Lignum Plast

Sale of KfW's shareholding in ProCredit Bank to ProCredit Holding AG & Co

Legal advisor to KfW

ICC arbitration over the operation of industrial equipment

18

mln USD

Legal advisor to a major German industrial group

Market entry and investment advice, covering business structuring from a Ukrainian law perspective

Legal advisor to a German construction and project development group

Feasibility of the client's digital service for trucks and cars from the standpoint of Ukrainian data protection laws

Legal advisor to a German multinational automotive corporation

Tax analysis of a new incentive programme for Ukrainian subsidiary, including risk assessment and mitigation strategies

Legal advisor to a German management consultancy group

Acquisition of BENTELER Distribution Ukraine — transaction structuring, legal due diligence of the Ukrainian target business, transaction documents

Legal advisor to Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group

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Key contacts

ANNA KOLODENSKA

Counsel

[email protected]

ANNA SOKUR

Senior Associate

[email protected]

Under the supervision of

MYKOLA STETSENKO

Managing Partner

[email protected]

KOSTIANTYN LIKARCHUK

Senior Partner

[email protected]

DACH Desk

Ihre Brücke in die Ukraine — wir beraten Sie gerne auf Deutsch. Your bridge between the German-speaking world and Ukraine — top-tier Ukrainian legal advice, delivered in German. AVELLUM’s DACH Desk is the firm’s dedicated gateway for clients from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. We advise DACH-headquartered corporations, companies, banks, funds, and private investors at […]

Practices

Employment

We have completed dozens of projects of varying complexity. Thus, whatever help you may need, we may guide through complexities of Ukraine's conservative labour laws.

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