Arbitrations, Injunctive Relief, Frozen Assets and Disclosure in the UK, EU, Ukraine and Russia: Practitioner Tips for Overcoming Vexing, High Stakes Obstacles

Dmytro Marchukov
Partner
INTEGRITES (Ukraine)

Natalie Todd
Partner
Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (UK)

Grzegorz Woźniak
Managing Partner
Woźniak Legal (Poland)

Axel Benjamin Herzberg
Partner
Bodenheimer (Germany)

Stavros Pavlou
Executive Chairman
Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC (Cyprus)
Most fraud victims are concerned about how they can recover from the losses they have suffered, and there are often significant challenges when there are: frozen assets; assets subject to arbitration orders and matters with conflicting disclosure orders. These matters are compounded when the assets and orders involve certain EU, Ukranian and Russian jurisdictions.
When a high-value fraud involves a number of these jurisdictions, it becomes a very complex landscape within which fraud practitioners must navigate, and requires focus and consideration of conflicting regimes, class priorities, foreign substantive law, and an array of other foreign insolvency and fraud-related proceedings.
Bring your questions, as our experts address some of the most pressing and difficult challenges that confront fraud and asset recovery practitioners in complex matters that include these jurisdictions, such as:
- Challenges in selecting the right forum(s) and venue(s) to prevent delay, gain momentum and improve chances of asset recovery
- Issues with obtaining and serving orders against unknown individuals and organizations
- What can be done to overcome a lack of cooperation between attorneys and enforcement authorities in the affected jurisdictions
- Handling the different approaches taken to disclosure, discovery and un-freezing assets in Civil and Common Law jurisdictions