Our firm assists clients across Eastern Europe and the wider post-Soviet region with complex, high-value disputes, drawing on deep knowledge of local business cultures, regulatory frameworks, and cross-border legal systems. Our clients include financial institutions, fintech firms, funds and asset managers, consultancies, brokerages, and real estate developers operating or investing across Eastern Europe. They rely on us not only for legal expertise but for our understanding of the commercial realities of fast-changing markets.
Our dispute resolution work in the region spans our core specialist areas. We currently have mandates on behalf of clients based in Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Croatia, in commercial litigation, civil fraud, and insolvency & restructuring matters.
Alongside litigation, we advise on sanctions, white-collar, and investigative matters across the region. We have supported financial services firms in managing sanctions exposure and compliance risk and worked with our white-collar and investigations team to secure the removal of an INTERPOL notice on behalf of a Ukrainian client.
Our strength lies in combining English law expertise with genuine regional fluency. Many of our lawyers have direct experience working with Eastern European institutions. Whether advising on enforcement strategy, asset recovery, or sanctions risk, our approach is always commercially driven and tailored to the specific contexts in which our clients operate.
Representative matters:
- Acting for a Latvian company in bringing civil and criminal contempt proceedings as a result of the Defendant failing to abide by the terms of a freezing order. Following a committal hearing, we obtained a prison sentence against the Defendant of 15 months.
- Acted for a very high net worth Croatian national in obtaining freezing injunctions and orders for delivery up of a number of high value Rolls Royce classic cars in claims exceeding £10 million.
- Recognition of an arbitral award from the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) pursuant to s.101 of the Arbitration Act 1996
- Obtaining a freezing injunction in support of a foreign arbitral award pursuant to s.44 of the Arbitration Act 1996
- Advising a UK based electronic payment processing company on the impact of Ukrainian sanctions in the UK
- Acted for a Ukrainian national in disclosure applications to the CCF relating to concerns regarding an Interpol arrest warrant
- Advising a Ukrainian national on the impact of Ukrainian sanctions in the UK
- Advising a Bulgarian company on non-party disclosure