Defusing the Court’s Nuclear Weapons: 13 Ways to Save Your World
30 Sep 2021
Location: 12.00 - 13.30 UK Time Virtual Event (ZOOM) Members: FREE - Book by 30 Sep Non Members: Register in Menu Above & Attend FREE of Charge - Book by 30 Sep
Highlights
We are delighted to bring you the third of the innovative ‘Acting for the Defendant’ series on its tour through the lifecycle of a dispute from the principal vantage point of the defendant’s lawyer.
This event will address:
- Worldwide freezing orders and related relief
- Search orders
- Discharge applications
- Collateral use
- Claims under the cross-undertaking in damages
- Committal
Your Expert Speakers include:
Partner
PCB Byrne
Nicola is a highly experienced commercial litigator who brings her pragmatic and tenacious approach to bear for high-net-worth individuals, legal and financial services professionals, corporates and hedge funds.
With experience acting across high-value civil fraud, financial services and trust litigation, Nicola has particular expertise in freezing orders, other interlocutory injunctive measures and anti-money laundering issues. She is a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Criminal and Civil Proceedings), and her dynamism is consistently recognised as a ‘real asset’ in complex cases.
Chambers and Partners
In ranking Nicola as a Star Individual for Fraud: Civil, Chambers and Partners comment: ‘Nicola is intellectually agile and a master for detail’. She is ‘one of the most effective fraud practitioners in the market’ and ‘she has a great strategic mind, is brilliantly insightful and is great to work with’.
Legal 500
‘The “truly excellent” group at Byrne and Partners LLP is led by the “articulate and fearsome” Nicola Boulton’
‘The department is headed by Nicola Boulton, who is described by clients as “a natural leader with unsurpassed knowledge of her field, with excellent judgment and an unerring ability to pick the right strategy”
PCB Byrne
Barrister
Essex Court Chambers (UK)
Essex Court Chambers (UK)
Partner
Stephenson Harwood (UK)
Richard is an experienced commercial litigator who has worked on some of the most high profile cases of the past decade. He is regularly instructed by banks, asset managers, sovereign states and large corporates on their most complex and important cases. Richard has a wide practice including banking and finance, asset management, corporate, insolvency, professional liability and fraud disputes. He has led major cases in each of these areas, many of which have involved cross border issues and proceedings in multiple jurisdictions, particularly in Europe and the US.
Stephenson Harwood (UK)
Partner
Withers
Tatiana is a partner in the litigation and arbitration team at Withersworldwide and focuses on disputes involving the CIS.
She is an experienced commercial litigator, working on both court cases and arbitrations, with market-leading experience in complex cross-border disputes. She has worked on a range of high profile cases for both corporates and high net worth individuals. Some recent individual instructions include representing a Lichtenstein foundation in discharge of Receivership Order application (in both High Court and Court of Appeal proceedings), representing a state-owned company in a multi-jurisdictional construction dispute in the ICC arbitration claim, acting for a company in arbitration claim challenging $72 million LCIA Award and representing a shareholder in an LCIA dispute and a related application for injunction in the High Court.
Tatiana qualified as a Solicitor – Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience, Civil Proceedings (England and Wales). She is also qualified as a Russian Advocate and was called to the Moscow City Bar in 2002.
Withers
Partner
PCB Byrne - London
Recognised as one of the leading dispute resolution lawyers of his generation, Trevor brings his extensive legal knowledge and shrewd analysis to bear for clients in highly-complex matters across various jurisdictions.
A thought leader and a ‘distinguished name in the English litigation market’, Trevor was awarded 2019’s Client Choice Award for Arbitration and ADR in the UK. Surveying senior corporate council only, this award recognised Trevor’s exemplary client service and his ability to add real value to clients’ businesses – above and beyond other players in the market.
He has been lauded by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal for commercial litigation, banking litigation, civil fraud, asset recovery and his experience in co-ordinating proceedings in several jurisdictions, particularly in relation to injunctive relief.
PCB Byrne - London
Barrister
3VB (UK)
James’ practice spans a broad range of commercial disputes, both in litigation and arbitration. It regularly sees him instructed on high value international disputes, often with a fraud aspect. A confident advocate and a team player, he is equally happy acting as sole counsel as he is as part of a larger legal team. Much of James’ work has an international element. He has been called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the BVI and is a registered practitioner with rights of audience at the AIFC in Kazakhstan.
3VB (UK)
Agenda
Speakers:
Paul McGrath KC - Barrister - Essex Court Chambers (UK)
Richard Garcia - Partner - Stephenson Harwood (UK)
Tatiana Menshenina - Partner - Withers
Trevor Mascarenhas - Partner - PCB Byrne - London
James McWilliams - Barrister - 3VB (UK)
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