Expertise

Tvisa is a is a foreign qualified complex disputes lawyer whose practice focuses on high-value international arbitration, complex commercial litigation, and sanctions-related advisory work. 

She advises multinational corporates, energy companies, project developers, financial institutions and ultra high net worth individuals on matters involving intricate contractual frameworks, cross-border assets and multi-jurisdictional regulatory exposure.

She has experience across a broad spectrum of arbitral and court proceedings, including LMAA arbitrations, construction disputes arising out of major infrastructure projects in the Middle East, and investment treaty matters under bilateral investment frameworks.

Tvisa has a growing practice in sanctions and export control matters, advising clients on the application of relevant sanctions regimes to financial flows, supply chains and technology transfers. 

Tvisa also has experience supporting insolvency‑related litigation, including matters involving the administration of complex estates and disputes arising from alleged breaches of fiduciary duties, misfeasance, preferences, and transactions defrauding creditors. She is familiar with the procedural and strategic considerations that arise in contested insolvency processes, particularly where insolvency intersects with civil fraud, money-laundering and cross‑border asset recovery.

Her prior experience includes a research role at King’s College London examining post-Brexit trade policy, alongside in-house commercial work in the construction sector. This combination equips her with both strong analytical research skills and practical commercial insight into of contracts, due diligence and commercial operations.

Experience

  1. Supporting a national athletics organisation facing potential CAS proceedings, including advising on anti‑doping compliance and various procedural options.
  2. Advised a project developer in construction arbitration proceedings relating to a major wind farm project in Bahrain, including contract analysis across multiple tiers of subcontracting. 
  3. Advised a UK-based company with international business in pipes and fittings on potential applicability of EU and UK sanctions to the sale of shares in Kazakh company to an EU national who on-sold to a Russian entity’s Kazakh entity.
  4. Advised a UK-based company with a US parent company on the applicability of UK and US Export Control Regime to the sale of dual-use software to users and for on-sale in various jurisdictions.
  5. Assisted an oil-trader in an LMAA arbitration under a charterparty against an owner concerning the charterer’s refusal to load oil at a port due to potential sanctions risks, resulting in a notice of termination and claim for damages from owner. 
  6. Assisting the liquidators of insolvent UK companies in claims involving breach of fiduciary duties; fraudulent trading; unlawful means conspiracy; restitution and knowing receipt against a prominent family in a $1.5bn fraud dispute including advising on various legal and procedural aspects. 
  7. Advising and assisting the joint administrators of UK-based entities and SPVs of a public figure in asset recovery involving real estate.
  8. Assisting an African state in ISDS proceedings brought by two UK companies concerning alleged violations of a BIT for the value of c. USD 2bn.