Our team

Pavel has over 15 years of experience in EU regulation and advocacy. Throughout his career, reinforced by an MBA degree at INSEAD, Pavel advised clients from Europe and Asia on environmental, health and tech legislations. In addition to leading client work at EU Focus Group, he develops relations with business schools and other learning organisations.

With a triangular educational background in politics, business, and law, Pavel provides a valuable analytical breadth to the interlinkages between EU policies, companies’ immediate business impacts and their short- and long-term corporate strategies.

Pavel advises clients in negotiations with the EU and Member States’ competent authorities during complex legislative and regulatory reviews, including, more recently, Russian, Chinese and Japanese clients. He guides them through best possible compromise solutions while defending and upgrading clients’ reputation at all levels of EU decision-making process.

Pavel holds an INSEAD MBA, a College of Europe Masters’ degree in Political and Administrative Studies and a MGIMO University degree in European Law. He is fluent in English, French, Russian and has a good working command of German and Latvian.