Asters

Banking and Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency

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

As counsel to the international financing institutions (EBRD, IFC) and foreign banks, she is involved in all aspects of the deal structure and in the negotiation and documentation of such transactions. Iryna has experience representing lenders in financing transactions involving borrowers in a wide variety of industries, including agriculture, energy, manufacturing, mining, real estate development, food & distribution, media and communications.

Ms. Pokanay was promoted to a partner at Asters in 2008. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Pokanay worked as an associate at Yuris Law Offices advising on general corporate law issues, secured transactions, commercial litigation. She represented clients before Ukrainian commercial courts and the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Ms. Pokanay also acted as an 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.

English; Ukrainian; Russian.

Ukrainian Bar Association Kyiv Regional Bar Association.

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine, Master of Laws, 1998