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During more than ten years of AVELLUM employment practice’s existence, 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.

We will be happy to assist you on the full range of employment issues, including:

  • development of a full range of HR documentation
  • drafting and implementation of employees’ incentive plans
  • planning and implementation of complex reorganisations, staff transfers, redundancies, and layoffs
  • consultancy assistance to ensure clients’ compliance with local labour, tax, anti-corruption, IP, and data protection laws
  • appropriation of clients’ practices and policies to local labour law requirements
  • conducting legal due diligence of clients’ HR documentation
  • development and implementation of strategies for sensitive dismissals
  • representation of clients’ interests during the resolving of labour disputes

Key experience

Complex employment support in relation to the creation of co-working hub, structuring the employment relations and drafting documents

Legal advisor to Spectrum Equity

Advice on transfer of employees due to spin-off of Covestro

Legal Advisor to Bayer AG

Employment matters in connection with the global reorganization of ABB group and spin off of some of their operations to Hitachi

6.85

Bln USD

Legal advisor to ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd

Complex advice, including structuring employment relations, drafting employment agreements, receiving of work permits for foreigners

Legal advisor to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC

Advice on employment matters related to acquisition of 70% stake in Zavallivskyi Graphite Group

Legal advisor to Volt Resources Ltd

Advice on employment matters of the acquisition of MedeAnalytics, a cloud-based healthcare analytics platform

Legal advisor to JLL Partners

Replacement of management in Ukrainian subsidiary of Atlantic Group

Legal advisor to Atlantic Group

Advice on data protection issues related to transfer of employee data to the USA

Legal Advisor to NetCracker Technology Corp.

Advice on transfer of employees due to sale of assets to GSK

Legal Advisor to Novartis

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MYKOLA STETSENKO

Managing Partner

mstetsenko@avellum.com

Team

YURIY NECHAYEV

Partner

ynechayev@avellum.com

BOGDANA PARKHOMCHUK

Managing Associate

bparkhomchuk@avellum.com

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