Grigorishin heads Energy Standard Group, which controls a number of enterprises in Zaporizhzhia and Ukrrichflot, as well as eight Ukrainian regional energy-distribution companies.
[4][5] Grigorishin was born in Zaporizhzhia[6] in a family of engineers-constructors of aviation engines who worked the whole life at elite Soviet construction bureau “Progress”.
Upon graduation from MFTI in 1988 started to work at theoretical department of the Institute of Spectrography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the city of Troitsk[9] where in 1991 he passed PH.D defense on the topic “Light propagation in nonlinear unordered environments”.
Starting from 1993 “Tsentralnaya Optovaya Metallobaza” company, established by the same partners, engaged in trading of ferrous material and ferro-alloys, soon becoming one of the biggest metal traders in the territory of CIS.
From 1996 to 2000, during big privatization campaign in Ukraine, Konstantin Grigorishin invested in controlling and material shareholdings of a number of metallurgic, industrial machine building, transport-logistics and energy distribution (so-called oblenergo) companies.
Business assets of Grigorishin, including in energy, industrial machine building and transport-logistics sectors, mainly located in the territory of Ukraine.
Grigorishin is the majority investor in established by him in 2005 Energy Standard Group, which indirectly owns material or controlling shareholdings in a number of enterprises in Zaporizhzhia and a couple of Ukrainian regional energy-distribution companies (oblenergo).
[13] In energy distribution Grigorishin has controlling shareholdings in Luhansk and Vinnytsia regional energy distribution companies, the rest six oblenergo in question (Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy (30%[14]) and Ternopil) are controlled together with other shareholders, amongst which is Ihor Kolomoyskyi[15] (starting from 2010 Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv oblenergo were managed jointly with Kolomoyskiy.
From the beginning of 2000th indirectly owns investments in majority shareholdings of “Zaporozhtransformator” (monopolist in production of Ukrainian power transformers and reactors[17]) and “Zaporozhskiy Kabelniy Zavod”.
According to Grigorishin he has loaned $12 million to Arsen Avakov and Viktor Baloha, at the time both members of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc, to be used to finance their 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election campaign.
In response, Arseniy Yatsenyuk on January 20, 2016 on the Cabinet of Minister's session accused Grigorishin of sabotage activities and work for foreign intelligence service.
On February 26, 2020 Pecherskiy District Court of Kyiv supported Konstantin Grigorishin's claim against the Cabinet of Ministers of Arseniy Yatsenyuk for defense of reputation and goodwill and refutation of false information.
[24] Konstantin Grigorishin, as all prominent businessmen of the end of 1990th – beginning of 2000th, suffered pressure from the side of political groups in power aimed to seize a share in his business.
That provocative act was discussed at the hearings in the House of Lords of the UK and covered in the speech of Viktor Yushenko, the leader of Ukrainian opposition at the time being, in Verkhovna Rada (the parliament of Ukraine).
[12] In 2008 the Security Service of Ukraine prohibited Grigorishin to enter the country for five years in connection with organization of “raider” (hostile takeover) attacks on Turboatom company.
[30] On April 13, 2016 at the hearing at the Moscow City Court, the investigator announced that Konstantin Grigorishin had been put on the wanted list in connection with tax evasion case for 675 mln RUB.
[31] On May 9, 2016, the London Court of International Arbitration decided in favor of Vadim Novinskiy and Vladimir Lukyanenko, minority shareholders of Sumy NPO named after M.V.
In December 2017, bailiffs accompanied by the representatives of Khasan Ediev arrived at apartments and house in Moscow owned by Konstantin Grigorishin with the aim to organize eviction of said real estate and movable property located there.
[39] In 2013, Energy Standard Group became a sponsor of Ukrainian Swimming Federation and created prize money fund for the swimmers for upcoming World Cup.