Iryna focuses on cross-border banking and finance transactions, project and trade finance, secured and syndicated lending, capital markets transactions, restructuring and M&A.

Recognition:
- highly regarded lawyer for banking, project finance, trade finance, M&A, capital markets, IFLR1000 2019
- recognized as a high level professional in banking and finance, Chambers Global 2019
- recommended lawyer for banking and finance, restructuring/insolvency, Chambers Europe 2019
- leading lawyer in banking, finance and capital markets, The Legal 500: EMEA 2019
- recognized lawyer for banking and finance, capital markets, project finance and development, Best Lawyers 2019
- recommended lawyer for project finance, Who's Who Legal 2019
notable practitioner for banking and finance, debt restructuring, Ukrainian Law Firms 2019. A Handbook for Foreign Clients

Bar Admissions
Ukraine (1998)

Education
Kyiv National University, Master of Laws, 1998

Professional Activities and Experience
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Pokanay was an associate at Yuris Law Office advising on general corporate law issues, secured transactions and commercial litigation. She acted as a party counsel in Ukrainian commercial courts proceedings and in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Ms. Pokanay also acted as assistant arbitrator in the ICC ICA arbitration in 2002. In 1994-1998 she was a liaison assistant in the American Bar Association/Central and East European Law Initiative, Ukraine.

• National Bank of Ukraine Allowed the Banks to Relieve their Borrowers for the Quarantine Period

  By Iryna Pokanay |April 2020