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Stephenson Harwood‘s ’fantastic team of bright and tenacious fraud lawyers’ has a strong reputation for handling high-value, politically sensitive and bet-the-company fraud disputes. The practice, which represents clients from across the globe (particularly parties from emerging markets), has particular strength in cross-border fraud litigation involving injunctions, such as freezing orders. Ros Prince, who is ‘unrivalled in her ability to work on complex multi-jurisdictional cases’, serves as practice head. Prince is supported by global fraud and asset recovery specialist Priya Grigoriadis, who routinely acts in major fraud-related claims before the English courts, and Galina Usorova, an expert in cross-border fraud and asset recovery cases, whose experience additionally includes spearheading the firm’s ESG fraud litigation offering.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘A fantastic team of bright and tenacious fraud lawyers. A truly international fraud practice, and with the team being instructed on multi-billion fraud and asset recovery matters that span the globe, they continue to push the envelope and innovate in their strategy in the courtroom and beyond.’

  • ‘Clients find the team very collaborative, and it allocates the right resource for the right matter to keep costs under control. A great team with decades of experience in complex fraud matters.’

Key clients

  • ABB (Private)

Work highlights

Acting for the former majority shareholders of Yukos in their enforcement action in England, in relation to $54bn-plus arbitration awards against the Russian Federation.
Acting for the joint liquidators of St George's (Bermuda), and others, to recover assets siphoned away through a large-scale and sophisticated cross-border investment fraud.