Expertise

Xenia works in all aspects of complex international contentions insolvency and civil fraud matters. She acts for UK insolvency practitioners. Xenia also has a significant experience in advising clients at the investigatory stage of matters, assisting clients to identify and prepare claims, identify and recover assets and preparing interim applications for preservation of assets such as world-wide freezing injunctions. 

Xenia has experience in anti-money laundering regulations and KYC checks which she gained in Germany and has worked at a City law firm in London on a debt enforcement matter over a loan agreement for one of the CIS banks.

Xenia is a native Ukrainian and Russian and fluent English speaker. 

Experience

  1. Acting for a Ukrainian government and an insolvent bank in High Court proceedings in respect of a complex international fraud claim exceeding US$ 580 million.   
  2. Investigating a sham supply contracts scheme worth of over US$ 280 million. 
  3. Applying for a world-wide freezing order in the UK High Court against a former UBO of the CIS bank.
  4. Acting for joint trustees in bankruptcy in relation to claims for transactions at an undervalue and transactions defrauding creditors.