Executive Committee
2022-2023
Vladimir PALAMARCIUC
President
Vladimir is a Moldovan lawyer. He specialises in civil law, e-commerce and litigation on regulatory matters for business. Vladimir co-founded and was the first president of the Young Lawyers Association under the Moldovan Bar. Since 2015 he serves as Info Point for the Council of Europe Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals Program (HELP) and in July 2020 he was reelected as member of the HELP Consultative Board.
Giulia Guagliardi
Immediate Past President
Giulia is an Italian lawyer at the law firm ‘Studio Legale Giovene’ (Rome-Milan). She specialises in criminal law and international criminal law, with a focus on financial crimes, white collar crimes and transnational organized crimes. She is a member of the Rome Young Bar Association and a member of the executive committee of AIGA-Roma. She has been participating since 2014, as team coach and judge, at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and ICC Moot Court Competition.
Sergiy BARBASHIN
Vice President
Sergiy is a Ukrainian advocate and is the managing partner at Trustme Law Firm. He is Head of UNBA NextGen, Deputy Head of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Ukrainian National Bar Association, and a Lecturer at the Higher School of Advocacy of Ukraine.
Sergiy‘s main practices are intellectual property protection; legal support to IT and startups, web3, blockchain and crypto projects. He builds legal positions and recommendations for the clients based on experience in IP, economic, corporate and tax law, gained in legal support of business all around the world.
Chiara PALOMBI
Secretary
Chiara is an Italian lawyer working in the labour department of the international law firm Gianni&Origoni.
She offers consultancy and assistance to Italian and foreign companies in employment, social security and industrial relation matters. She is IV Secretary of the Rome Young Bar Association since 2018.
Carmen DEL CASTILLO VERICAT
Treasurer
Carmen is a Spanish corporate lawyer based in Barcelona. She works in a Venture Capital management fund, dealing with investments in Startups, mainly in Spain, the EU and US. She is a member of the Barcelona Young Bar Association (Grupo de la Abogacía Joven – GAJ).
Pauline GIRERD
Executive Officer
Pauline Girerd is a French lawyer based in Lille. She set up her own practice in April 2022. She practices especially in Criminal Law and Minors’s law, Family Law and Labor cases. She is a member of the Fédération Nationale des Unions des Jeunes Avocats and former president of the Union des Jeunes Avocats de Lille. She also sits at the Lille’s Bar Council.
She was a member of the EYBA research committee in 2021/2022.
Nikoline MUNK KROGH
Executive Officer
Nikoline is a Danish lawyer working with construction law and real estate matters in law firm under the name ‘Sagførerne’. She regularly appears in courts and cases all over Denmark, and is based in the second largest city Aarhus.
Shannon GAWLEY
Executive Officer
Shannon is a solicitor in the Commercial team at Carson McDowell and is based in Northern Ireland. She specialises in a range of commercial matters including general commercial contracts, technology and innovation, intellectual property and data protection. Shannon graduated with a degree in Law (LLB honours) from Queen’s University, Belfast in 2016. She obtained her professional qualification from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in September 2018. Shannon is the current Vice Chair of the Northern Ireland Young Solicitors’ Association and a former committee member of Young Leaders Northern Ireland.
