Kyiv, 14 September 2015 - Avellum Partners welcomes Dmytro Marchukov asthe new Partner and the Head of Dispute Resolution Practice.

Dmytro has represented international and localclients in close to every kind of dispute resolution matters including nationaland cross-border litigation, transnational insolvency and receivership, assettracing and recovery, fraud investigation, enforcement of mortgages and pledges(including against shareholdings in Ukrainian companies), commercial andinvestment arbitration under the major institutional and ad hoc rules, as wellas recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial and arbitral awards.

Mykola Stetsenko, Managing Partner of AvellumPartners, commented: “We are pleased to welcome such noteworthy and experiencedlawyer. Dmytro’s arrival is an important step to further enforce Avellum’sreputation as a firm which effectively handles high-value, complex andmulti-jurisdictional disputes. In his new role, Dmytro will deliverbest-in-class services to our clients advising on the high-scale projects.”

Dmytro is joining Avellum Partners from theInternational Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation Practice of EgorovPuginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine.

“After over a decade with a great firm, it wasanything but an easy decision for me to part ways with real professionals towhom I have deepest respect. Yet I am absolutely optimistic about joiningAvellum team and very much enthusiastic about the opportunity to contribute myknowledge and expertise in the field of dispute resolution to what has establisheditself as one of the biggest successes in the Ukrainian legal market”, DmytroMarchukov commented.

Dmytro Marchukov is recommended among leadinglawyers in dispute resolution by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, BestLawyers, GAR 100 and The Legal 500. He was the only Ukrainian lawyer recognizedamong “40 Europe outstanding up and comers” by Chambers Europe 2014. BestLawyers 2015 recommends Dmytro as an outstanding lawyer in Arbitration andMediation.

Dmytro received a Master of InternationalCommercial Arbitration Law degree from the Stockholm University (LL.M.), aMaster of International Law degree from the Institute of InternationalRelations of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, as well asBachelor of International Relations from the same school.

For furtherinformation on the topic please contact Mykola Stetsenko, Managing Partner, Dmytro Marchukov, Partner, and Glib Bondar, Partner, or bytelephone +380 44 220-0335 or via e-mail