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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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‘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.