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Priya Grigoriadis

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Work Department

Commercial litigation

Position

Priya is a partner in Stephenson Harwood’s market leading fraud and asset recovery team, ranked Tier 1 in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. She advises clients in large scale complex litigation, including tracing and recovering assets across multiple jurisdictions. Priya is recognised in the directories as a leading lawyer for civil fraud, reporting that she is “seemingly able to do a hundred things at once, all to a very high standard.”

Priya has acted on some of the largest claims to come before the English courts in recent years. Clients praise her ability, with sources reporting: “Priya is one of the best solicitors I’ve ever come across”; “She manages issues very swiftly and efficiently, knows all the minute details and is so responsive and great with clients”.

She has significant experience of large-scale, complex fraud and asset recovery cases, including obtaining and defending freezing orders, disclosure orders and search orders. Most of her cases are international often involving parallel litigation in jurisdictions such as the BVI, Cayman Islands, Southeast Asia and the UAE.

Priya is currently acting for a leading trading house in a £600+ million cross-border fraud claim. She also represents the former shareholders of Yukos Oil Company in relation to the enforcement in England of a US$54+ billion arbitration award against the Russian Federation, the largest enforcement action in legal history.

Priya is also a leading member of Stephenson Harwood’s India group and acts for a number of the leading Indian Banks.

Her clients include high net worth individuals, major corporates and insolvency practitioners.

Career

Priya is a senior associate specialising in large scale complex litigation, arbitration and fraud and asset recovery. She has significant trial experience in addition to experience of interlocutory and post judgment applications including freezing injunctions, receivership orders and jurisdictional challenges. Her work covers proceedings in the High Court in London, international arbitrations and mediations.

Priya has acted in some of the firm’s most high profile civil fraud cases. She is recognised as a ‘next generation lawyer’ by Legal 500 in the civil fraud category, reporting that she has “an excellent grasp of complex legal issues“.

Priya acted for successful defendants Mr Izmaylov and Mr Skarga in the infamous Fiona Trust litigation. The team’s work was praised by the judges of The Lawyer Awards for being “tactically and legally excellent“. She also acted on the high profile BTA v Ablyazov litigation, one of the largest civil fraud claims to have ever come before the English courts. Priya is currently representing the former shareholders of Yukos Oil Company in relation to the enforcement in England of a US$50+ billion arbitration award against the Russian Federation. These cases like most of Priya’s practice have involved a multi-jurisdictional element.

Priya is also the lead associate of Stephenson Harwood’s India group and acts for a number of the leading Indian Banks.

Her clients include companies, directors, banks and high net worth individuals. She has particular experience in Russia, CIS and India related disputes.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil

(Next Generation Partners)

Priya Grigoriadis – Stephenson Harwood

Stephenson Harwood is distinctly well-versed in multinational disputes, including those pertaining to emerging market, with members of the civil fraud team being commended as ‘specialists in fraud and asset tracing with a solid grounding in commercial litigation‘. ‘Market leader‘ Ros Prince co-heads the team and is acclaimed as an expert in cross-border asset recovery, meanwhile Alan Bercow, the practice’s other lead and ‘a senior statesman in this area‘, is relied upon for all-manner of proceedings, acting for both major corporates and high-net-worth individuals; the duo are supported by ‘class act‘ Priya Grigoriadis who made partner in May 2023 and has developed a track record in freezing, search and disclosure order matters.

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