Women in FIRE presents: Asset Recovery in Action

Antonia is a Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department of N. Pirilides & Associates LLC.

She undertakes a wide range of high – value civil and commercial matters with an international dimension, with an emphasis on corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. She has extensive expertise in high-calibre shareholder disputes, fraud, asset tracing, registration and enforcement of foreign judgments in Cyprus as well as winding-up petitions. She has gained particular know-how in interim relief applications, such as mandatory and prohibitory orders and has successfully obtained and responded to high-value worldwide freezing injunctions.

She regularly appears in Cyprus courts for interlocutory hearings, petitions and trials, with experience in both trial and appellate advocacy.

Antonia is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner and she is also a member of The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, as well as of the Companies, Tax Planning and Capital Markets Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association.

Having over 15 years of experience in the sector, Tatiana routinely advises domestic and foreign investors and creditors on an array of matters. Her expertise includes stressed investments or divestments, acquisition of assets in special situations, debt restructuring and guarantees in complex lawsuits, out-of-court and court-supervised restructurings, mediation, bankruptcy, and corporate litigation and arbitration.

She is also IWIRC-Brazil's communication director, the Brazilian Institute for Corporate Recovery's director, and a CAM-CMR counsellor. Tatiana is also a member of CMR – Women in Restructuring Center and the Bankruptcy and Recovery Committee of IASP. Academically, Tatiana holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master's in Corporate Law from Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

Carla Reyes has a broad practice across the spectrum of criminal and commercial litigation both before state courts and other Swiss federal jurisdictions. In particular, she enjoys considerable experience in domestic and cross-border multi-jurisdictional litigation matters.

She practices, among others, in international commercial disputes of a civil nature, in particular in the banking and trading industry.

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.

Natalie is on the list of Supervising Solicitors and has hands on experience of working on highly contested search orders involving multiple parties.  She recently assisted the Civil Procedure Rules Committee with the drafting of the new precedent Imaging Order.

Natalie typically advises on cases involving fraud, breach of trust, deceit, misrepresentation and conspiracy.  She has acted for a wide range of international clients ranging from insolvency practitioners, a pension provider subject to a pensions’ liberation fraud, creditors of a ponzi scheme, minority shareholders in a large high street brand, an investment bank, a commodities trading entity, to state appointed liquidators of banks in significant claims to recover proceeds of fraud.  Cases often have an international element and involve interim relief applications, jurisdiction challenges, enforcement of awards/orders and asset tracing.

Background

Natalie qualified as a lawyer in England and Wales in 2005 having obtained an LLB Law with German Law Hons from King’s College London and her LPC (distinction) from the College of Law.  She trained and qualified at SJ Berwin LLP.  She has worked in the litigation teams at Lawrence Graham LLP, Signature Litigation LLP and Taylor Wessing LLP.  She joined civil fraud boutique PCB Litigation LLP (which subsequently became PCB Byrne) and was made up to partner in 2019.  Natalie joined Cooke, Young and Keidan LLP in April 2022.

What the legal directories say

The Legal 500 (2022) edition recognises Natalie as a Next Generation Partner in Civil Fraud and Commercial Litigation and recommends her for Banking Litigation.

The Legal 500 describes Natalie as “a hard working, knowledgeable and client oriented practitioner”, “personable, professional and user friendly”, “great to work with, always on top of the detail” and as “a junior partner who is one to watch. Great management of the case team and extremely good at telling the client how it is”.  She is “known for [her] strategic thinking and [is] client-oriented” and has “excellent control of her cases and is an excellent leader”.

In The Legal 500 2020 edition, Natalie is identified as a key lawyer for civil fraud and in the 2021 edition, she is also identified as a key lawyer for Commercial Litigation and Banking Litigation and is described as “creative in approach [with] excellent client communication”.

Professional groups

Natalie is Honorary Secretary of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and is on the Founding Committee for next generation practitioners for Thought Leaders4 Disputes and the IWIRC European Networks Steering Committee.

Her professional memberships include the Law Society of England and Wales, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, Thought Leaders4 FIRE and RAIIDAR International (Recovering Assets, Insolvency, Investigations, Disputes and Restructuring).

Publications, articles and seminars

Natalie is a member of Lexis PSL’s Case Analysis Expert Panel on Dispute Resolution and regularly writes case summaries for that publication.  She is co-editor of the England and Wales chapter of “Enforcement of Foreign Judgments”.  She is actively involved in responding to legal consultations for the LSLA.

She has had numerous speaking engagements including the annual ABA/RAA Conference on the resolution of CIS-related disputes, The Law Society’s English Law Week in Russia and on numerous Thought Leaders4 webinars.