Priya Grigoriadis > Stephenson Harwood > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Stephenson Harwood
1 FINSBURY CIRCUS
LONDON
EC2M 7SH
England

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.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil

(Next Generation Partners)

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Stephenson Harwood‘s ‘fantastic team of bright and tenacious fraud lawyers’ has a strong reputation for handling high-value, politically sensitive and bet-the-company fraud disputes. The practice, which represents clients from across the globe (particularly parties from emerging markets), has particular strength in cross-border fraud litigation involving injunctions, such as freezing orders. Ros Prince, who is ‘unrivalled in her ability to work on complex multi-jurisdictional cases’, serves as practice head. Prince is supported by global fraud and asset recovery specialist Priya Grigoriadis, who routinely acts in major fraud-related claims before the English courts, and Galina Usorova, an expert in cross-border fraud and asset recovery cases, whose experience additionally includes spearheading the firm’s ESG fraud litigation offering.