Tatiana Menshenina

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I am a commercial litigator with over twenty years’ experience, working on both cross-border litigation and arbitrations, involving parties from or with interests in UK, Europe, CIS, UAE and the BVI.

I have market-leading experience in complex cross-border disputes involving shareholders, commercial and financial contracts and fraud related to digital finance, cryptocurrency and digital assets, technology, financial instruments and construction, asset tracing, cross–border enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards. My team is advising on various issues related to UK, EU and US financial sanctions regulations. I have led a number of high profile cases for both corporates and high-net-worth individuals facing personal and professional challenges.

I sit as an arbitrator in commercial cases and I am also an accredited mediator, which adds to my experience navigating different routes to dispute resolution. I work closely with my clients to understand all available options and provide strategic solutions to help them reach a resolution.

I am dual-qualified as a solicitor – advocate in England & Wales and Russia. I qualified as a Russian Advocate and was called to the Moscow City Bar in 2002. While this has been a natural geographical focus for me for many years, I have been working with clients based in the UK, US, Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Switzerland, UAE, BVI and Cyprus and have significant experience advising in all manner of cross–border disputes involving these regions.

I am a regular speaker at various dispute resolution conferences and events and publish articles on issues involving digital assets, jurisdiction, enforcement and arbitration.

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Representing a UK marketing and advertising company, in a contractual dispute against a Russian biotechnical company
Representing a high net worth individual in a Commercial Court dispute over art objects ownership in a claim of more than GBP 14 million
Represented the successful Claimant in a three-week Commercial Court trial between two Russian business, with judgment of over US$7.5 million
Representing a state - owned company (the respondent) in a multi - jurisdictional construction dispute in an ICC arbitration claim brought by Italian claimant. This case, apart from complicated construction issues, involves jurisdictional and assignment of FIDIC contracts issues with a crossover of Italian, French and Ukrainian laws
Acting on a multi-jurisdictional litigation concerning the tracing and securing of Russian based assets which have been concealed from our client, as a judgment creditor, by their alleged ultimate beneficial owner by means of a series of transfers through complex offshore corporate and trust structures. The matter has involved leading an effort to obtain Norwich Pharmacal relief in the Seychelles, in coordination with a local firm, providing support and evidence of foreign law for use in Russian proceedings and commencing enforcement proceedings in the BVI Court
Successfully obtaining a Freezing and Receivership Order in the BVI as interim relief to secure the assets pending enforcement of a Russian judgment against shares in the BVI

We’re experienced in coordinating multi-jurisdictional teams to manage our clients’ needs around the globe and have good links with a number of firms in the main crypto-friendly jurisdictions. We combine our lawyers’ experience with that of the most appropriate local law firm. This enables us to provide our clients with advice from specialists with the most relevant experience in each jurisdiction, delivered in a collaborative way.

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