SERHIY
NYZHNYY

• Born in 1980 in Khmelnytskyi. He graduated from the Khmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Management and Law (now the Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law).
• In 2007, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Pledge of property rights as a way to ensure the fulfillment of obligations” at the Moscow Institute of State and Law named after V.M. Koretsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• In 2009, he received a lawyer’s license.
• On January 14, 2021, at the age of 40, he died after long-term treatment due to cancer.

In 2007, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the political bloc “Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense”, but did not make it to the Parliament. For some time he worked as an assistant to Mykola Katerynchuk, a People’s Deputy from NUNS. During the 2019 election campaign, he actively supported the candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyi, who was ultimately elected the 6th President of Ukraine by the majority of votes. It is believed that Serhii Nizhny was one of the sponsors of the candidate. Took an active part in the election campaign during the extraordinary elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine of the same year.

Serhiy Nizhny’s own social activism was manifested in his active work on improving the current legislative framework of Ukraine

In 2016, he founded the Ukrainian-British law firm Hillmont Partners. As a lawyer, he specialized in work in the oil and gas, energy sectors, and had experience in resolving disputes in other key areas for the Ukrainian economy, including financial services, consumer goods and retail, real estate and infrastructure, IT and media. He also specialized in complex investment cases and litigation between investors and the state. He was a regular participant of the business forum in Davos and a resident of Viktor Pinchuk’s project “Ukrainian Yalta Strategy”.