Andrey Portnov
Biography of Andrey Vladimirovich Portnov
Date of Birth: 27.10.1973
Andrey Vladimirovich Portnov - lawyer, member of the Ukrainian Parliament in the 5th-6th electoral periods (2006-2007, 2007-2010). From 2005 to 2010, he headed the legal department of the election campaign staff of Yulia Tymoshenko. From April 2, 2010, until the end of February 2014, he was the head of the main department for judicial reforms of the administration of President Viktor Yanukovych and deputy (from January 24, 2014, first deputy) head of the administration of the President of Ukraine.
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Luhansk. In 1999, he graduated from the Eastern Ukrainian State University with a degree in law. Doctor of Law (2009). Professor at the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Career. From 1993 to 1994, after his military service, Portnov worked as a lawyer in the Luhansk LLC 'Yurlit Ltd'. Then for two years, he worked as a lawyer at AP Luganskaya Neftbaza. In 1996, he headed the law firm Ukrainformpravo in Luhansk.
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In January 1997, he began working in Kyiv at the State Commission for Securities and Stock Market (GKTSFB). Initially, as a chief expert of the methodology and standardization department for accounting and reporting of management for corporate finance. A few months later, he was appointed deputy head of the control and legal department and head of the law enforcement department.
From September 1997 to December 2001, Portnov held senior positions at GKTSFB: assistant to the chairman, head of the corporate finance department, assistant to the chairman, head of the group of assistants and consultants to the chairman, head of the corporate finance department.
From January 2002 to May 2003, he was the director of the law firm 'Portnov and Partners' in the capital, specializing in services in investment business, corporate governance, privatization, and securities market. Portnov's name is also associated with the law firm 'Corporate Technologies', whose clients were structures of the financial and industrial group Privat and which, according to Ukrainska Pravda, was originally a 'private' company of Promreserv.
In June 2003, he returned to GKTSFB and worked until July 2004 as the first deputy executive secretary. From July 2004 to July 2005 - a member of the commission.
From July 2005 to April 2006, he worked as a lawyer.
In 2006, he was elected as a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the V convocation of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, he was again elected to the Parliament, this time on the BYUT list. He was a member of the Parliament Committee on Justice. In 2008, he was elected deputy chairman of the BYUT faction.
He was a member of Timoshenko's Batkivshchyna. Head of the legal department at BYUT.
From May 2009, he was a member of the High Council of Justice (quota from legal universities).
From April 2010 - deputy head of the presidential administration of Sergey Levochkin - head of the main department for judicial reforms and court organization. On April 5, 2011, he was appointed a presidential advisor - head of the main department for court organization of the presidential administration (Viktor Yanukovych) as part of the administrative reform due to job cuts.
On January 16, 2013, Portnov was dismissed by presidential decree from his position as head of the main department for court organization and was appointed advisor to the head of state on the same day. Commenting on this rotation, Levochkin, head of the administration, stated that Portnov would be a curator for all areas of reforming law enforcement agencies and the judiciary.
On January 24, 2014, President Yanukovych dismissed Portnov from his position as presidential advisor by decree and appointed him as the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine (the head of the administration was appointed Andrey Klyuev). In this position, Portnov replaced Irina Akimova.
On February 26, 2014, Portnov was dismissed as the first deputy head of the presidential administration by the decree of the acting Ukrainian president Alexander Turchinov.
At the end of February 2014, he left Ukraine. He lived in Russia, in Moscow. Later he moved to Vienna and practiced law.
On March 6, 2014, the European Union and Canada announced that Portnov was on a list of high-ranking Ukrainian officials against whom financial sanctions had been imposed.
On March 6, 2015, the names of Andrey Portnov, Alexei Azarov (son of Nikola Azarov), and former SBU heads Alexander Yakimenko and Igor Kalinin were removed from the EU sanctions list.
In October 2015, the European Court of Justice seated in Luxembourg in the case 'Portnov v. the Council of the EU' ruled in favor of Portnov and declared the imposition of sanctions unlawful.
From August 27 to October 5, 2018