Asset Recovery CEE

Rachel conducts internal investigations for clients into fraud and corruption/corporate crime. She conducts the civil litigation and injunctions, often as a follow on from the findings of investigations. Rachel advises on compliance matters including anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, CCO, modern slavery and sanctions across a wide range of sectors and internationally in respect of Board Governance, conflict management policies and procedures, through to supply chain due diligence and controls. She advises at Board level on regulatory and white-collar issues. Rachel has undertaken numerous investigations and advisory work across the regulated and unregulated sector for compliance matters arising cross-sector, including real estate, construction, insurance, mining and energy, beauty, telecoms and IT. Rachel also has 5 years in-house experience in BP and Willis insurance Brokers (now Willis Towers Watson), as a Senior Manager and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer respectively.

Michael is an experienced and highly regarded partner in the London commercial and corporate litigation and regulatory practice. His cases are generally multi-million pound/dollar tort and breach of contract disputes (both in arbitration and High Court). Michael has been a litigator for over 25 years. He is the lead partner on substantial High Court claims, including SPF and Saad, and the substantial Aeroflot case. Michael deals with high value and complex international private law cases. He also heads up the firm’s Russia and CIS initiative. Michael has a wide experience of litigation and disputes. These range from multi-million dollar multi-jurisdictional fraud claims through to judicial reviews, tribunal matters, banking disputes, shareholders disputes, construction disputes, wrongful trading actions, actions for and against directors, shipping claims, defamation, breach of contract, tort, insolvency and employment claims. Most of Michael’s clients are international with very many clients coming from Russia, the Former Soviet Union and the Gulf states.

Based in Stockholm, Matthew is a Director with responsibility for assessing and underwriting legal and collection risk as part of Burford Capital’s EMEA investment team, with a focus on asset recovery matters. Matthew has over 15 years of experience leading complex multi-jurisdictional asset tracing and recovery efforts. Prior to his role at Burford, he held positions with several leading investigative firms in London, New York, and San Francisco, where he successfully managed investigations in over 50 countries. Burford is a leading legal finance provider with its own global asset recovery and enforcement business, comprised of both former litigators and dedicated asset tracing professionals. Our asset recovery business invests in litigation to enforce high value unsatisfied judgments, debts, and awards, that may originate in all sectors and specialisms (including commercial disputes, banking & debt recovery, trust and family disputes, insolvency, international arbitration and claims against sovereigns).

Director General of The Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce long-time practitioner in the field of business support. Jagiellonian University Master of law, completed postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics in Human Resource Management. She developed her first professional experience as the right hand of the director of one of the largest hospitals in Warsaw, where she learned the ins and outs of the challenges of managing an organisation in a way that required reconciling opposing interest groups. For many years, she has represented the entrepreneurs’ self-government as an expert in business and legal topics concerning the establishment and operation of a business, labour law and social security. She has worked her way up through the various levels of a large organisation such as the Polish Chamber of Commerce – from expert, through project-manager, Press Officer, Director of the President’s Office, to Director General of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. She actively participates in the law-making processes in Poland – in the parliament, ministries, public administration bodies. She has successfully prepared and implemented projects financed by EU funds. She advises entrepreneurs and is a guest of various media in advocating the interests of entrepreneurs. She is a co-author of a number of publications on, inter alia, business advocacy, business conduct and corruption prevention.

Gabriel was previously the managing director for Europe of a global litigation funder. He has 18 years of experience which includes being the general counsel of Mayfair based investment fund Tristan Capital Partners and the head of the private equity practice group at Kochański and Partners. Whilst in private practice he worked at Clifford Chance, Mayer Brown and Dentons as a solicitor responsible for commercial deals and disputes. He also has particular expertise in resolving shareholder and law firm partnership disputes. Gabriel holds an LLM from King’s College London, where he was awarded the Principal’s Award for his work in the field of international arbitration. Gabriel is a practising solicitor in England and Wales.

Angelika is a dual-qualified Austrian counsel and English solicitor. She is a specialist in international, high-level economic crime investigations and large-scale commercial disputes.

As a multilingual lawyer, she has widely-recognised expertise in representing corporates and conglomerates in major projects and legal matters across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and United States.

Her comprehensive experience and thorough understanding of all aspects of white-collar crime have led to her successfully representing corporations in many notable multijurisdictional investigations and in some of the most complex commercial litigation. Her caseload has seen her advise clients ranging from international banks through to aerospace, steel, security and defence companies on matters involving bribery and corruption, fraud and other high-stakes, cross-border issues.

Angelika advises corporates on regulatory and compliance matters. She conducts internal investigations for clients to help them identify wrongdoing and then proposes the most appropriate course of action. She also assesses weaknesses in compliance programmes and devises new, strengthened programmes that meet the demands of clients’ multijurisdictional activities.

Angelika’s ability to work in many parts of the world and her network of international counterparts mean she is regularly sought by clients from around the globe to manage offensive asset tracing and recovery litigation. She also works in Rahman Ravelli’s highly-regarded cryptocurrency team.

Her work on cases involving environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues has seen her become one of the lawyers at the forefront of this developing area. She coordinates work for international conglomerates in this field; advising them on regulatory matters, producing staff training and compliance programmes and ensuring their worldwide activities are legally compliant. Angelika also supports NGO’s on issues such as human rights violations, war crime victims and modern slavery.

As part of Rahman Ravelli’s international sanctions team, Angelika assesses the potential impact of all relevant laws and export controls. She keeps up to speed with the rapidly-evolving rules and regulations to ensure clients adopt the correct approach and do not face the prospect of prosecution or financial penalty. Much of her sanctions practice is particularly focused on enforcement activities and the freezing and seizure of assets.

Angelika has been counsel for more than a decade at Austria’s top law firm and speaks English, German, Spanish and Arabic; which is an asset in many international cases.

James is a litigation partner resident in New York and Washington. He focuses his practice on international disputes and cross-border enforcement and asset recovery, representing clients in a broad range of international and domestic conflicts before US courts and arbitral tribunals. A significant portion of his practice includes the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments against sovereign and commercial entities in the US and globally. James also has experience in multi-jurisdictional asset recovery proceedings involving allegations of fraud, and has represented and advised clients worldwide in various sectors including mining, energy, and finance. James has served as lead counsel in some of the most cutting-edge cross-border cases to be litigated in US trial and appellate courts in recent years. He has considerable experience litigating issues under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the New York Convention, the Panama Convention, ICSID, the Energy Charter Treaty, the Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1782, and other treaties and statutes that have unique applicability in cross-border disputes. He has considerable experience advising not only foreign investors and parties to cross-border disputes, but also litigation funders, hedge funds and other dispute investors and financial stakeholders who play a critical role in the resolution of large commercial and investor-state disputes. James speaks and writes regularly on topics related to international dispute resolution and enforcement. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, and Renmin University School of Law in Beijing, and cases he has handled have served as the basis for semester-long international disputes classes at NYU and Fordham Law Schools. He conceived, edited, and was a contributing author to International Aspects of U.S. Litigation (ABA, 2017), a two-volume treatise on the litigation of international disputes in US courts, and has published expert analyses on international disputes issues in Law360, as well as been a guest contributor on legal issues to the South China Morning Post, a leading daily newspaper in Hong Kong. James was also recently appointed an executive member of the Institute for International Economic Policy of the Elliott School for International Affairs at the George Washington University.

Olga is a Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution and Compliance practice group at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang’s Kyiv office. She has more than 15 years’ experience in highly complex litigation and arbitration proceedings in Ukraine and abroad, including in international investment and commercial arbitrations (under ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, SCC, VIAC, ICAC rules), enforcement of arbitral awards in Ukraine and abroad, and cross-border litigation. Olga efficiently handles all kinds of disputes, from straightforward claims to complex, high-value, challenging ones in a way that meets clients’ commercial objectives, whether that is to litigate aggressively, arbitrate, or conduct employment mediation. With domestic litigation, Olga has not only in-depth experience in commercial dispute resolution cases, but also specialist knowledge of sectors such as IT, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, insurance, energy and banking. Olga’s practice also covers tax and compliance; Olga has conducted numerous compliance investigations of alleged/reported corrupt practices and regularly delivers anti-corruption trainings for management and compliance officers of top-ranked international businesses. Olga is a recommended lawyer in the field of International Arbitration and Litigation by Best Lawyers 2022 rankings.

Kajetan is a barrister (trial advocate) at 4 Pump Court in London, specialising in large-scale complex corporate fraud disputes, usually involving simultaneous litigation in several jurisdictions worldwide and valued from millions to several billion USD. His work concerns all aspects of business wrongdoing, including shareholder fraud, misappropriation of corporate assets, directors’ conflicts of interest, asset dissipation and recovery, conspiracies, breach of trust, bribery, economic intimidation, blackmail, cryptoassets, banking fraud, and computer hacking. He also practises in general business disputes before the English court and worldwide arbitration tribunals, including in particular in international trade, shipping, construction and infrastructure, and banking and financial services. He has particularly strong experience of work concerning the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, India, Singapore, China (both mainland and Hong Kong) and offshore financial centres. He was born and grew up in Poland and speaks Polish fluently, and is valued by international clients in the London market for his deep cultural understanding of Central and Eastern Europe.

Paul has 20 years of dispute resolution, litigation support and business intelligence experience and has led cross-border cases in many challenging jurisdictions for governments, law firms and corporate clients. 

Paul, a former disputes lawyer, is regularly instructed to support sovereign and commercial disputes on both the claimant and defendant side and has expert insight into the complexities of state immunity laws and their impact on enforcement of judgments and awards, as well as expertise in enforcement, asset-tracing and settlement negotiations. 

Paul started his career at KPMG before joining the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where he spent time in Afghanistan. He later ran his own investigations firm before qualifying as a solicitor and working at one of London’s leading disputes law firms. 

Paul has a BA from Durham University and a Master of Laws from the University of Law.

Philipp specialises in international arbitration, representing clients and providing strategic legal advice in both institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings across a wide range of sectors and regions. Philipp’s practice includes both investment arbitration, as well as commercial arbitration under all major institutional rules. Philipp’s investment arbitration expertise (including under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules) has seen him represent clients operating in several global industries, including technology, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, logistics, real estate, financial services, tax, media, health care, and aerospace. Philipp’s focus on global arbitration has led to him representing international clients in claims against several states in the following regions: Central and South America, the Middle East, Europe (including in particular Central and Eastern Europe) and Asia. Philipp also regularly acts for clients in commercial arbitrations around the world, and in this context has acted for clients in relation to a wide variety of disputes, including joint venture, shareholder, finance, private equity/M&A, regulatory, and pharma disputes, as well as many other contractual and non-contractual claims.

J-P is an experienced litigation funder with a particular focus on asset recovery and judgment enforcement. J-P also has deep experience in funding and managing litigation assets across numerous jurisdictions and sectors, including group actions, bilateral treaty arbitration, and commercial litigation. Hereford Litigation is a London-based third-party funder active across legal assets, with a global remit. The team includes two leading KCs and brings considerable experience across law, third party funding and special situations investing. J-P is an English solicitor and, prior to commencing a career in legal services, he served as a British Army officer for 14 years with the Scots Guards.

Alistair is a Senior Associate at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP and advises individuals and corporates on all aspects of sanctions risk, compliance and enforcement. Alistair is recognised in particular for his knowledge of financial and trade sanctions and export controls. He represents sanctioned parties in designation challenges and was instructed with Anna Bradshaw in the successful challenge to an EU sanctions designation in Abdelkader Sabra v Council of the European Union (Case T-249/20). Alistair is sought after for his sanctions training and co-authored the chapter 'Representing Designated Persons: A UK Lawyer’s Perspective’ in The Guide to Sanctions, published by the Global Investigations Review (currently in its third edition).

Irina Tymczyszyn FCIArb is an English lawyer and a well-known international arbitration specialist. Over the last 20 years, Irina has acted as counsel and arbitrator in multiple international commercial arbitration proceedings seated around the world. She has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional cross-border disputes. Irina specialises in investment and post-M&A disputes, shareholders’ disputes (often involving allegations of fraud), commodity trading, construction, energy and natural resources disputes.

Anna advises on all aspects of financial crime and sanctions compliance, assisting with investigations into suspected breaches and related reporting obligations and representing individuals and corporates in contentious proceedings.

She is recommended as a Global Leader on International Sanctions in Who’s Who Legal (Trade & Customs 2019), describing Anna as a ‘prominent’ figure in the market, recognised for her ‘encyclopaedic’ knowledge at legal and policy level as well as her ‘diligent and thoughtful approach to sanctions matters’. She is experienced in challenging UN and EU sanctions designations, having worked on the first UK judicial review of the implementation of EU sanctions as well as a number of annulment applications brought in the EU General Court.

Anna Zorya is a Ukrainian law-qualified attorney-at-law and a partner in the corporate department of Rymarz Zdort. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2001 and completed a course of professional education of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). She qualified as an attorney-at-law in 2019. Prior to joining Rymarz Zdort (formerly known as Weil, Gotshal & Manges – Pawel Rymarz sp.k.) in 2022, she worked as a corporate and M&A partner at one of the leading Ukrainian law firms. She is ranked as a well-regarded practitioner by such directories as IFLR 1000 (2019-2020), Who’s Who Legal (2019-2021), Chambers Global (2019-2021), The Legal 500 (2019-2021), and Best Lawyers (2019-2021, 2022). A specialist in corporate law and M&A, she has worked on transactions for clients from various sectors, including agriculture, TMT, IT and real estate. She has provided comprehensive support for M&A transactions, including due diligence, transaction structuring, preparation of transactional documents, developing an effective corporate structure, and corporate support of company activities.

Adelina Prokop, a qualified Polish advocate, is a partner in the Clifford Chance Warsaw Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department. She focuses on dispute resolution in commercial, financial and international law. In particular, she specialises in investment arbitration. Adelina has vast experience acting for clients in court and arbitration proceedings gained in Clifford Chance’s Warsaw and London offices. She acts for foreign investors in international investment arbitration. She has acted in arbitration proceedings in Paris, London, Geneva, Brussels and Warsaw. She represents banks, financial institutions and auditors before the common courts and the Court of Justice of the EU. She has also advised clients from the energy, telecommunications, infrastructure and real estate sectors, as well as in disputes concerning unfair competition and M&A. Clients perceive Adelina as “a highly intelligent, thoughtful associate and an excellent advocate” (Legal 500 EMEA 2021) and appreciate her „” her in terms of accuracy”” in arbitration and contentious banking matters (Chambers Europe 2021). She is also recognised by Who’s Who Legal, an international legal directory, as a Future Leader in arbitration proceedings in Poland.

Adam Markiewicz is a Founding Partner at AMALYTICA, an independent, special situations advisory boutique focused on Disputes, Restructuring and Transactions in Central and Eastern Europe. He leads expert witness and dispute advisory services across Europe. Mr. Markiewicz specializes in financial aspects of dispute resolution, predominantly serving as an expert witness in litigation or arbitration as well as an expert determiner. His focus areas include M&A accounting, commercial damages, investment valuation and shareholder disputes. For many years, he has served as a court-appointed expert in financial analysis and business valuation. He has a particular interest in data-heavy assignments and the use of data science in contentious matters. Mr. Markiewicz has participated in many litigation and arbitration matters of differing size and complexity in Continental Europe, UK, Middle East and Southeast Asia, conducted under the auspices of various arbitral institutions (e.g. PCA-UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, VIAC, SAKIG, the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration, Ljubljana Arbitral Center) and courts of Poland, Cyprus, France and the UK). He occasionally speaks at events focused on dispute resolution. Prior to co-founding AMALYTICA in 2024, he led Quantuma’s Disputes, Investigations and Valuation efforts in Continental Europe and was responsible for Deloitte’s Disputes Services in Central Europe. A truly analytic mind and soul with over 20 years of professional career, mostly in financial consulting roles, with significant experience in managing interdisciplinary teams across geographies to deliver well-researched data-backed solutions to internal and external clients or credible expert testimony. He supported businesses across a broad range of industries with significant exposure to energy and resources. Over his professional career, Adam has valued over 100 businesses in addition to numerous intangible assets for contentious and non-contentious purposes including transactions, restructuring, regulatory, tax and financial reporting.

Dominika Karsznia is a Partner at ValueMind, she is a court expert in the field of finance and valuation. Dominika works with clients as well as litigators in various law firms throughout Poland. Her financial expertise is primarily focused on damage calculations and support in financial aspects of litigation. With more than 20 years of professional experience in transactions, due diligence, business modelling and valuation Dominika advises on quantum and prepares financial and business analysis for the purposes of domestic and international arbitration as well as common court proceedings. As associate partner, Dominika was the leader of the Polish Valuation and Business Modelling team at EY. She was responsible for financial analysis and valuations prepared for transaction, tax, accounting as well as statutory purposes. She completed series of finance management, accounting, modelling and business valuation courses organized by the American Society of Appraisers, Kaplan Schweser as well as internally by EY. Dominika’s experience covers wide range of professional advisory services related to: · calculation of damages, preparation of expert opinions and rebuttal reports; · financial due diligence, SPA review and financial analysis of company’s historical performance based on statutory financial statements as well as management accounts; · fairness opinions, valuations of businesses, organized parts of enterprises, intangible and fixed assets; · preparation of business plans, financial forecasts and financial models, private investor tests (TPI); · purchase price allocation in accordance with IFRS3 and impairment tests in accordance with IAS 36; · analysis of investment projects, scenario and sensitivity analysis as well as synergy analysis; Dominika advised major private equity funds on the Polish market, was involved in projects for key market players in the telecommunication sector as well as in the consolidation of the Polish healthcare sector. She supported the biggest Polish energy companies in the field of regulatory / compliance requirements, worked with retail chains and wholesalers as well as real estate and construction sector companies.

Rodrigo Vivas is CT Group’s UK Head of Intelligence. Rodrigo leads complex multijurisdictional investigatory assignments including litigation and international arbitration support, asset tracing, sanctions and political exposure analysis as well as integrity and reverse due diligence. Rodrigo speaks fluent Russian and Spanish and has developed a particular expertise in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Europe and Latin America. He has travelled extensively throughout these regions and spent seven years working in Moscow.

Helena is a Director in Ankura’s Asset Tracing & Complex Investigations team. Helena is an experienced investigator specialising in cross-border asset tracing exercises, the provision of strategic intelligence in dispute resolution and aiding the enforcement of investor-state arbitral awards. Helena has significant experience in the CIS region having spent time working and studying in Russia and leading multiple investigations in the region.

Gunjan Sharma, a “Next Generation Partner” (Legal 500, 2024) and “Rising Star” (Euromoney, 2022, 2023), has been praised as “very able”, a “future star in public international law for sure”, a “highly experienced arbitration lawyer” who provides “senior-level expertise” and “invaluable value to clients”, “excelling in the depth of his knowledge”, “very professional”, a “consummate professional”, with “fantastic drafting skills” and “quick and very easy” communication (Legal500, 2021-2024). Mr Sharma provides clients with the comprehensive advice they need to achieve successful outcomes in international disputes involving billions of dollars, including State-to-State disputes, investor-State and commercial arbitrations and major litigations. He has represented States before the International Court of Justice; obtained victories for States and investors in multi-billion-dollar investor-State arbitrations; and caused New York courts to summarily dismiss a potentially USD 200 million claim for fraud against a private equity client, without discovery or trial. Mr Sharma also has extensive non-contentious experience, having advised clients on various issues in over 300 transactions. He has represented States and private companies in major treaty negotiations and boundary delimitations, including free trade agreements, transboundary unitisation agreements and other energy treaties. Mr Sharma’s clients have included major energy and mining companies; Silicon Valley giants; some of the world’s largest investment funds; and numerous States, including Bahrain, Barbados, Egypt, Kenya, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He also served as an expert witness on international law in proceedings before a European court on behalf of a North American State. Mr Sharma is also an acknowledged thought leader. His work has been cited by numerous authorities, including the US Congressional Research Service. He is regularly consulted by major newspapers and publications, including the NRC in the Netherlands, The Times in England and the Financial Times’s The Banker magazine. Mr Sharma has a Juris Doctor from the prestigious New York University School of Law. He is a Krogh Honors Medallion Scholar and has a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, with a Certificate in Asian Studies, from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Ania is a Partner at Fieldfisher. She is a highly experienced practitioner who advises and represents States and corporate entities in a wide variety of international dispute resolution and public international law matters, including commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. She has over 20 years of experience as counsel; She has acted as counsel in disputes conducted under all of the major arbitration rules including ICC, ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility, LCIA and SCC. She is Chair of the ICC UK Committee for Arbitration and ADR and Co-Chair of the International Arbitration Charity Ball. She also sits as an Arbitrator and is a member of Arbitra. She previously worked at a leading third party funder.

Recognized Fraud Investigator, both in the traditional and blockchain space, cooperating with Corporates, Police Forces, and other agencies from all over the world on forensic investigations including hack, fraud, murder, assault, child protection, terrorism, e-discovery, forensic data analysis, bribery, conflict of interest, tax fraud, and AML. Product Owner of Coinfirm’s Asset Tracking and Fraud Investigation tools. A guest lecturer at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. MIT Certified Blockchain Expert. Admitted as an expert in US federal court.

I am an insolvency practitioner with 12 years’ experience of dealing with complex, contentious assignments; with an emphasis on fraud investigation, identification of assets, tracing exercises, enforcement of judgments and recovery of assets for those who have suffered financial loss or have a claim against another party.

I focus on assisting beneficiaries, trustees and representatives in matrimonial, family, trust and probate disputes. I work to find strategies that ensure the most appropriate action is taken in order to achieve maximum recovery. I use the Insolvency Act, along with other civil legislation, such as the use of liquidations, bankruptcies and court appointed receiverships, as a tool to assist with investigation, asset tracing and recovery processes.

Richard is Gateley’s National Head of Dispute Resolution and a member of our Management Board, he co-leads the complex international asset recovery team and is head of Gateley’s London office. Richard has extensive experience of asset recovery often involving the reversing asset dissipation via complex offshore structures. Richard has successfully applied for in excess of 300 injunctions including Freezing Orders and Search and Seize Orders. In the course of his 25 year career, Richard has worked with both the UK and overseas governments including: the Dutch; Danish; Swiss; and the US Governments. In addition to acting for government bodies Richard has also acted extensively banks/financial institutions ultra-high net worth individuals and insolvency practitioners/court appointed receivers. In recent years Richard has acted extensively for the Ukrainian Deposit Guarantee fund and his practice is now heavily focused on: Central & Eastern Europe; the Middle East and Africa. . Richard has many reported cases including successful appeals to the Supreme Court of England & Wales, the Courts of Appeal of: Singapore; Gibraltar; Hong Kong; and the European Court of Justice. Richard has a particularly strong knowledge of the litigation funding and insurance market and regularly is involved in devising innovative funding solutions to facilitate the recovery of assets for creditors and the victims of fraud.

Ileana Smeureanu concentrates her practice on international commercial and investor-State arbitration. She represents clients from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East throughout the whole arbitral process, covering a wide range of disputes and a variety of jurisdictions. Before joining Jones Day, Ileana worked in London as a research assistant to a renowned international arbitrator and was an associate with the International Law Institute (ILI) in Washington, D.C. During her doctoral studies, Ileana trained with the ICC Court of Arbitration, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and four international law firms in Paris and Singapore. Ileana is author of the book Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2011). She coauthored the English translation of the Romanian arbitration law (ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, 74th Suppl., May 2013) and has published and spoke on numerous topics with special focus on Eastern Europe. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Bucharest Bar Association, and the young international groups of several prominent arbitral institutions.

John Adams is an experienced insolvency and civil fraud partner in the commercial dispute resolution team at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP in London who advises on proceedings at all levels of the English courts. He has significant experience in both domestic and cross-border insolvencies, and has developed a particular specialism in contentious cases arising out of fraud. John has advised on a number of complex, high value matters involving concurrent criminal or regulatory investigations, including the US trustee of Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC, and the estate of Bernard L Madoff. He has specialist expertise in digital assets where he advises clients on cryptocurrency, NFT and blockchain disputes. He also advises on all aspects of asset investigation and recovery, including corporate and personal insolvency, and has assisted in the recovery of all types of assets, from crypto assets to racehorses and overseas properties.

Kateryna Gupalo, Attorney-at-law, Partner, co-head of the White-Collar Crime practice, co-head of the Anticorruption practice. Kateryna’s expertise involves the provision of legal aid to companies with foreign investments, to its top management as well as to private clients in criminal proceedings. Due to her understanding of the relevant business processes Kateryna effectively defends clients at all stages of criminal proceedings (in pre-trial investigations as well as in court). Kateryna also deals with cross-border cases as well as represents her clients before international investigative bodies, including. Interpol. The companies include, in particular, Ukrainian subsidiaries of multinational grain-trading companies and other agribusiness representatives as well as food, pharma, timber processing, construction companies, etc. Kateryna also practices complex litigation and also has extensive expertise in the area of tax and customs litigation. Kateryna is an active participant in scientific and practical conferences and forums.

Piotr is a seasoned dispute resolution lawyer specialising in arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has gained his experience working for eighteen years at top international law firms in Warsaw and London (White & Case, Clifford Chance and CMS Cameron McKenna), as well as in-house in Australia, specifically in relation to a mega arbitration dispute concerning a major LNG project.​Piotr works as lead and co-counsel on significant international and domestic arbitrations and represents clients in Polish state court proceedings. He also frequently acts as a sole, presiding or co-arbitrator. Piotr’s main areas of specialisation include disputes related to M&A, real estate, construction and energy projects. However, throughout his career, Piotr has successfully represented clients in all sorts of disputes. Therefore, he is confident handling even the most unusual and challenging problems.​Piotr is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also one of the founders and a Vice-President of the Arbitration Association for Central and Eastern Europe (ArbCEE).​He is recommended by Who is Who Legal in the Arbitration category, as well as by Chambers & Partners in the Dispute Resolution category.

Will B Jenkins is a Certified Fraud Examiner, independent investigator, and strategic intelligence specialist. He was most recently a Director in the London office of two global investigations firms. He has conducted hundreds of investigative and intelligence cases across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific. His work focuses on complex disputes, due diligence, asset searches, bespoke political risk, and regulatory- and intelligence-led investigations into integrity issues, especially in frontier markets. Will formerly worked in Dubai at the forensic disputes and integrity services section at EY, where he managed over a hundred multi-jurisdictional integrity and compliance investigations across MENA and into Europe. There, he worked on anti-corruption cases and traced assets, money-laundering and sanctioned networks around the Middle East and Eurasia including a number of historic sanctions, forensic dispute, and internal investigation mandates. An Arabic and Persian speaker and Middle East specialist by background, Will is also proficient in German, French, Russian, and Urdu. Will formerly worked at the Australian Senate on trade and defence policy, and at the Australian Chamber of Commerce in trade and productivity research as well as at a boutique business consultancy focused on emerging markets in Sydney. He received his master’s degree with Distinction in global economic history from the University of Leipzig in Germany and the London School of Economics & Political Science. His undergraduate degrees are from the Australian National University, where he also taught.

GRZEGORZ E. WOŹNIAK is a Managing Partner at Woźniak Legal Law Firm in Warsaw, Poland. Mr Woźniak represents clients in the field of mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance as well as private client. Some of his work focuses on helping clients prepare proactive policies to prevent fraudulent activity in companies and to remedy damage suffered as a result of fraud, especially after the takeover. Mr Woźniak has been also trained as a judge. Before setting up Woźniak Legal, he used to work for many years at Allen&Overy in Warsaw. Mr Woźniak was admitted to the Polish Bar in 2001. He is the active member of The International Bar Association.

Louis Wilson is the Head of Fossil Fuel Investigations at Global Witness, one of Britain’s leading campaign groups. He runs a team focused on the political and social influence of the oil and gas industry. Previously, he ran Global Witness’ Ukraine project. That team’s investigations into the oil majors funding and fuelling the war in Ukraine forced major companies to divest from Russian joint ventures, unearthed sanctions violations, and generated a ground-breaking criminal complaint for complicity in war crimes. Before joining Global Witness, he was a Vice President at Mercury Public Affairs in Sacramento and London.

Lara Levinson is an experienced and dual-qualified English solicitor and U.S. lawyer who focuses her practice on complex civil and appellate litigation, regulatory and internal investigations, and asset forfeiture and recovery matters. In particular, Ms. Levinson regularly represents clients in financial products and services litigation in both English and U.S. courts. Ms. Levinson has briefed several civil appellate matters before the U.S. Courts of Appeals, including for the Second, Fourth and District of Columbia Circuits. 

Prior to joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Levinson was an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch in Washington DC, where she received the Civil Division Special Commendation Award. While serving there, Ms. Levinson briefed and argued over 30 federal appellate cases, including en banc matters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit involving government contract disputes, money claims against the government and federal employment disputes. She also served in the Office of the Counsel to the President at the White House and as associate general counsel at the National Gallery of Art.

After law school, Ms. Levinson served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Anita B. Brody of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and worked on appeals for a sitting by designation on the United State Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Dr. Wojciech Sadowski is a partner at Queritius. He focuses on international and trans-border dispute resolution, working as counsel and arbitrator. Wojciech has been extensively involved in advisory work and client representation in matters involving international investment treaties and acted for both investors and states. He has also broad experience in in commercial arbitrations and litigations before domestic courts, the European Court of Human Rights, the General Court of the EU and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has acted in matters relating to, among others, construction, infrastructure, renewable and conventional energy, M&A, real estate, finance, intellectual property, telecoms, mining and metals, pharmaceutical, outsourcing, FMCG, sale of goods, shareholders’ agreements and unfair market practices. Wojciech holds a PhD in legal studies and is the author or co-author of many articles and books on international and trans-border arbitration and litigation. Before founding Queritius, Wojciech was a Warsaw and London partner at a leading global law firm and had almost 20 years of working in top legal brands. Since 2008, Wojciech has been constantly ranked as a leading dispute resolution practitioner by principal directories, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Who’s Who International Arbitration.

Hana Lesenarova has over twenty years of experience in fighting financial crime. She runs the Europe team of Deutsche Bank’s Business Intelligence Unit which advises the bank on its most sensitive clients and prospects, focusing on researching and analyzing their exposure to financial crime and reputational risk. Before joining the bank in 2016 she spent a decade in an international consultancy advising the companies on the same risks in Central European region. And previously she was an investigative journalist based in Prague and later in Brussels, focusing on post-communist privatization process, links between business and politics and the birth of Eastern European oligarchs.

Andrii has a high level of awareness of the Polish and Ukrainian business environment, successfully providing legal support to international companies entering the Ukrainian market and Ukrainian companies entering new European markets. Advises clients on corporate governance, corporate business restructuring, access to financial resources, has experience in implementing compliance systems for business structures, advises on fraud and corruption risk management in the corporate sector, and has skills in conducting forensic investigations. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, holds an international FIDIC certificate (Practical Use of FIDIC Conditions of Contracts, provided by AECU). Andrii Romanchuk has a successful experience in supporting the entry of Ukrainian startups to the Polish market, he is a mentor of two accelerators, namely: Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge and ISE Corporate Accelerator. He consults participants of various programs on corporate law, financial instruments and intellectual property. His network of contacts includes representatives of venture funds (200 thousand-15 million euros), Mezzanine (10-100 million euros), PE (30-150 million euros) funds.