Ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation by The Legal 500, Natalie is a partner specialising in complex multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation including banking and financial services litigation, insolvency, fraud and asset recovery.  She is a “partner who is one to watch”, “personable, professional and user friendly, great to work with, always on top of the detail”. Natalie has expertise in litigation and arbitration involving banking and financial services, insolvency, trust, contractual, partnership, shareholder and commercial disputes.  She has a particular specialism in fraud and asset recovery and has acted on some high profile Russian and CIS cases.  She has worked on multi-jurisdictional asset tracing cases, including obtaining extensive Worldwide Freezing, Search, Disclosure and Passport Surrender Orders in one of Russia’s biggest ever alleged bank frauds.

A business intelligence expert, Dominika amassed over a decade’s woth of experience before establishing Matrix.

With her legal background in complex and white-collar crime, Dominika is responsible for ensuring that all legal requirements are met and leading multi-jurisdictional asset tracing and due diligence projects.

Cathalijne conducts an international practice that consists for the main part of international judgement enforcement and civil asset tracing & recovery, with an accent to financial crime matters.

In addition, because of her special expertise on private international law, Cathalijne van der Plas is frequently called in as ‘lawyer’s lawyer’ by fellow professionals in order to render opinions or give advice on complex issues concerning the international jurisdiction of courts, the applicable law and the recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions or arbitral awards. She has a unique knowledge of the intersections of private international law, public international law and international sanctions law, with regard to among other things supermandatory rules and immunity from jurisdiction and from execution.

Sylvia acts as an insolvency administrator for entities from all industry and business sectors in northern Germany.

As a trusted advisor, she helps clients to navigate complex restructuring processes, both in- and out-of-court, and with a particular focus on operational restructuring, change management issues and cross-border activities. She also regularly advises clients on all types of insolvency and restructuring-related legal matters.

In recent years, Sylvia has developed extensive knowledge of the maritime sector, and she draws on this experience to handle the insolvencies of ship-owning entities, maritime funds structures and shipyards. She also regularly advises clients from the maritime sector with regard to distressed situations.

In the last two years, Sylvia has been responsible for handling more than 30 insolvency cases of ship-owning funds structures. She has also advised on the insolvency-related aspects of more than 40 high yield bond projects.

Sylvia's track record has given her an exceptional understanding of the issues related to German debtor-in-possession and protective shield proceedings. A recognized commentator in these areas, she is the author of the relevant sections of the Hamburger Kommentar zur Insolvenzordnung.

Manuela Serrano has a huge expertise in restructuring and insolvency law. She has acted as receiver, lawyer of creditors, not also labor or commercial, but also financial entities. She has been also lawyer of the debtor who files for the bankruptcy proceeding. Most of these proceedings can be qualified as “special relevance” ones, in national and international terms. She is also specialized in sales of the whole business or business units, special proceedings into the bankruptcy proceeding, and to liability of directors under Bankruptcy Law.

Manuela has a graduated in Law and Business degree from “Universidad Pontificia de Comillas” (ICADE). She is also finishing her doctorate in Insolvency Lax by the “Universidad Autónoma de Madrid”.

Manuela’s professional development has been carried out working at legal firms like DLA PIPER, ROCA JUNYENT and VENTURA GARCÉS-LÓPEZ IBOR.

Manuela is also author of books related to her specialty and lecturer in several Insolvency and Restructuring Law Conferences for professionals. She is also a professor of Law and Business Degree, and Master for professionals ( ICADE) for more than 15 years.

Recommended by the international directory Best Lawyers 2021 as a recognized lawyer in Insolvency Law and ranked in Chambers at Insolvency category.