At a regular meeting of the Board of the National Registry of Corporate Directors, a unanimous decision was made to include Volodymyr Igonin, partner of Vasil Kisil & Partners, and Nina Dombrovska, member of the Supervisory Board of Soborna Europe, in the Registry.
Volodymyr Igonin has been practicing law since 2005 (18 years of experience), specializing in corporate and business law. Since 2007, Volodymyr Igonin has been working as an attorney at Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm, since 2017 he has been a partner and heads the firm’s Corporate/M&A practice. With Volodymyr’s professional support, more than a hundred M&A and investment transactions with a total value of over $1 billion have been successfully completed. Mr. Igonin’s legal qualifications are recognized by international rankings such as Chambers, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, etc.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Board of the Corporate Governance Professional Association (CGPA) and the Board of the UBA Corporate Law and Stock Market Committee, promoting the dissemination of best corporate governance practices. As a member of the advisory board of advisors, he worked on the text of the Corporate Governance Code approved by the NSSMC in 2020. He participated in the development of a number of draft laws on corporate governance in companies, including public sector ones.
In 2018-2020, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Urban Space 500, a public restaurant that united five hundred social investors. He is a member of the boards of two separate volunteer projects: Dattalion (presence in the United States and Ukraine) and the Union of Dead Lawyers Charitable Foundation (Ukraine).
V. Igonin believes that “Corporate governance and, in particular, an independent supervisory board, improves the quality of decisions, allows to expand the range of hypotheses and approaches to solving problems, identify unobvious risks and see opportunities earlier. This makes the company more sustainable (anti-fragile) and attractive to investors.”
Nina Dombrowska is a successful manager with a long experience in leading a large international company, complemented by experience in various investment projects and experience as a board member. In 2017-2021, Nina Dombrovska was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Henkel Ukraine. Henkel Group is a German international company that produces chemical products for industries and consumers, which is a world leader in adhesive technologies, cosmetics, laundry, and home care products. In Ukraine, as of 2021, the company consisted of 4 business units, four plants, and 1300 employees. She significantly strengthened the corporate culture and cooperation between business units during this time. Before that, Nina was the Head of Beauty Care at Henkel Ukraine, covering the region of Ukraine and Moldova. In this position, she turned this business from decline and loss-making to constant long-term growth and high profitability, giving her experience in strategy review, transformation, restructuring, and successful change in large organizations.
Н. Dombrovska was a member of the Board of the European Business Association for two years and a member of the Supervisory Board of VG Holding (Ukrainian manufacturer of Spanbond products) for one year. She is a member of the Board of Soborna Europe, a charity foundation providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
N. Dombrowska: “I believe that my experience in systematic international companies such as Henkel, Nestle, and Unilever will enable me to make a significant contribution to systematizing the systems and processes of many companies and to introduce the most advanced management, analysis, and planning approaches to develop and implement sustainable business models.”