Bio

Dmitri Kovalenko represents multinational clients on a broad range of corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity and joint venture transactions in various industries and sectors. Mr. Kovalenko advises corporates, investors and financial institutions across a variety of industries, most notably in the areas of technology, real estate, automobiles, heavy machinery, manufacturing, retail and natural resources. He has extensive experience counseling on matters in various international jurisdictions, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and many others. In addition, he has acted on over a dozen M&A deals in the Russian retail space and numerous public M&A matters for U.K.-listed companies. Mr. Kovalenko also represents international clients in a broad range of investments and financings, and has substantial experience in capital markets transactions. He has served as the lead counsel for issuers and underwriters in many debt and equity placements by issuers, as well as for borrowers on a number of secured and unsecured debt facilities. Mr. Kovalenko has practiced law at Skadden for nearly three decades and has served as head of the firm’s Russia practice. He was previously ranked in the top tier for Russia M&A and Russia capital markets work by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, as well as for private equity in Russia by Chambers Europe. Mr. Kovalenko was named 2022 Private Equity Lawyer of the Year, 2021 Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year and 2020 Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in Russia, and was previously listed in the publication’s Global Business Edition. Additionally, he has been repeatedly named a leading individual in IFLR1000 and Who’s Who Legal (including previously as the only Russia-based attorney recognized as one of the world’s leading lawyers for corporate investigations in Who’s Who Legal: Investigations), as well as in The Legal 500 EMEA as a member of its Commercial, Corporate and M&A: Moscow Hall of Fame. He also has been recognized as a “prominent partner” as part of the firmwide Skadden entry in Global Investigations Review’s GIR 100.