Founder | CEO Gryphon Group
Founding Partner & CEO of Gryphon Group, an independent member of the leading international network Parker Russell International, headquartered in the UK.
With over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, banking, M&A transactions, and investment projects, Helen brings a wealth of expertise to the table. With a deep understanding of business processes and experience in effective team management, Helen leads projects in audit, corporate and transactional structuring, asset restructuring, and oversees tax and legal due diligence teams.
Specialising in strategic business planning, strategy development, and execution, Helen has further honed her expertise by completing a specialisation at Harvard Business School.
As a leader skilled in uniting diverse teams to drive success in complex projects and business initiatives, Helen is committed to the principles of sustainable development and places a strong emphasis on fostering long-term relationships and partnerships.
Always open to new opportunities, Helen seeks to leverage her extensive experience in business strategy, team leadership and project management to collaborate with like-minded professionals who share a vision for a sustainable and resilient future.
With a broad range of expertise, Mrs. Lynnyk has successfully supported projects across various industries, including capital markets, banking and finance, IT and e-commerce, agriculture, coal, metallurgy and chemicals, power generation, and real estate and construction.
Partner
Kyiv, UA
Ilya has legal expertise of 23 years, including 13-year experience as a patent and trademark attorney in Ukraine.
Illya specializes in crypto-fiat gateways, including an understanding of on-ramp and off-ramp solutions for fiat-to-crypto transactions. He has experience in compliance matters related to fiat-crypto conversion, including AML/KYC requirements. He possesses a deep understanding of regulatory challenges associated with crypto-fiat gateways across different jurisdictions.
He has expertise in tokenization, including the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) such as real estate, commodities, and financial instruments. He is knowledgeable about smart contract standards for asset-backed tokens and their compliance with securities regulations. He is familiar with secondary markets for tokenized assets, liquidity mechanisms, and interoperability solutions for tokenized assets across different blockchain networks.
Illya also specializes on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, supports projects on registration of trademark certificates for goods and services, industrial designs, inventions and utility models at the national and international level (PCT, Madrid System, Hague System).
He supports Compliance and Integrity Due Diligence projects in the field of competition law, represents clients in the AMCU of all instances (regional, central authorities) in cases of unfair competition, discrediting of business entities and anticompetitive concerted actions.
He has experience in supporting projects in various industries, including experience of comprehensive support of startups, IT and E-commerce projects, pharmaceuticals, power generation, real estate and construction.
Audit partner
Kyiv, UA
Member of the Board and Head of the Finance and Budget Committee of the Ukrainian Federation of Accounts and Auditors (since 2016)
Business trainer (seminars, trainings, training programs on IFRS and corporate law – since 2012)
Author of more than 250 publications on the application of IFRS for IFRS Bulletin (Liga), IFRS Practice, All About Accounting, Accountant and Law (Liga), Auditor of Ukraine, Handbook of Economist, and others.
Partner
London, UK
+44 (0) 20 7378 7500
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Jason Parker is the UK Senior Partner of Parker Russell UK specialising in audit and assurance and is also president and CEO of Parker Russell International, responsible for the management of the Owner-Managed Businesses (OMB) activity within Parker Russell UK and some of the other Parker Russell firms outside the UK where Jason Parker is authorised to undertake statutory audit.
Jason is based in the London office and continues to be actively involved with key clients. Jason is the founding partner of Parker Russell UK and Parker Russell International. He trained with a medium sized firm in the city. He provides commercial, strategic and accounting advice to a portfolio of small and medium sized businesses, larger private companies and enterprises with international connections.
Jason has carried out audits of financial statements prepared under IFRS and UK GAAP, and also has experience of working with a number of financial institution such as bank and investment companies. Jason is also actively involved in all areas of business development. Qualifications • FCA – Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales • MA – Master in Accounting and Financial Management from University of Essex
Partner
London, UK
+44 (0) 20 7378 7500
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After graduating with a degree in Accounting and Finance, Lili joined Parker Russell in 2005 as an audit trainee and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2010.
She manages a diverse portfolio of clients from larger property companies to SMEs and owner-managed businesses and provide them with varied business support. This includes the production of management information, statutory financial reporting, general business advisory, and strategic growth advice. By gaining an in-depth understanding of clients’ businesses, she works alongside them to help them grow, meet their targets, and stimulate them to think beyond the day to day.
Lili is also responsible for the firm’s Asian Division. Working with companies and high net worth individuals that seek to establish operations, invest in, or take up residency in the UK. This involves providing sound cross-border structuring advice in relation to their offshore assets and corporate structures, on issues such as pre-arrival and post-arrival tax planning, domicile advice and estate planning.
ASSOCIATE Partner
London, UK
+44 (0) 20 7378 7500
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Mr. Khan is a Fellow member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB). He is also a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK). Mr. Khan has obtained vast experience as a public accountant in local and international level. Mr. Khan joined as a partner in 2015 as Partner, then he moved to consultancy with own firm EHK Consulting Ltd till he returned to Parker Russell in 2020. Before joining PR, Mr. Khan serves about 25 years in UK in the field of public accountancy.
He is also working as a Partner in Kazi Zahir Khan & Co, Chartered Accountants, an international accountancy and advisory firm whose head office is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He qualified with a respected London city firm Levy Cohen & Co, Registered Auditors, where he worked as an audit manager. He also worked in Martin Heller Chartered Accountants as partner designate until he started his own practice. He has dealt with audit assignments for the companies listed in the London, Dhaka, US and Israeli stock exchanges. He was involved in setting up few UK subsidiaries of US and Israeli multinational companies operating in IT software and services industry.
Dealing with wide range of clients from HNW individuals to subsidiary of multinational companies in many different industries including private equity, manufacturing, IT software and services, trading & distribution, constructions and property investment companies, Etc. Before entering into practice, he gained his Master of Commerce (M COM) in management from the University of Dhaka and worked for the largest conglomerate (Bashundhara Group of Companies) in Bangladesh and was promoted to chief accountant for one of the subsidiaries.
His unique blend of experience is readily transferable from one industry to another which placed him in a unique position to advise many different businesses in the UK and Bangladesh. He also has experience of dealing with offshore clients, providing tax planning advise and dealing with their UK and BD tax affairs.
Partner
London, UK
+44 (0) 20 7378 7500
[email protected]
Mike specialises in auditing, accounting (UK GAAP and IFRS), due diligence and corporate finance work, valuations and compliance with Audit Regulations and FSA Rulebook. His extensive sphere of technical knowledge covers, among other things, company restructuring (including the use of EIS), AIM Flotations (including grooming companies for IPO), and mergers and acquisitions. He also has particular experience in all aspects of companies operating in the film and television sector, FSA regulated clients and charities.
Mike is a well known technical expert and lectures on accounting, auditing, money laundering and IPO matters (including lecturing for the ICAEW and ACCA), as well as being technical consultant to PROaudit. He enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult technical problems.
