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Biography

President of Ukrainian Bar Association Managing Partner at AVELLUM Mykola Stetsenko currently serves as President of the Ukrainian Bar Association. In his capacity, Mykola focuses on the rule of law, major legislative reforms, as well as ethics of the legal profession in Ukraine. Mykola is also the Managing Partner at a leading Ukrainian law firm, AVELLUM, and heads its Corporate/M&A Practice. Mykola has extensive experience in corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, IPOs, and corporate governance. Mykola is actively engaged in the development of Ukrainian corporate law, namely regulation of shareholders agreements, LLCs, corporate governance in public companies, and tender offers. Mykola is one of the lead authors of the modern corporate law in Ukraine, having co-drafted laws on shareholder agreements, securities regulation, corporations and LLCs, corporate governance, as well as squeeze-out and sell-out mechanisms. He also serves as an expert on securities, corporate law, and civil law in major investment arbitrations. Prior to co-founding AVELLUM in 2009, Mykola worked as a partner at Baker McKenzie Kyiv.