Veronika Koroleva > gunnercooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
gunnercooke LLP Offices
1 CORNHILL
LONDON
EC3V 3ND
England
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Veronika Koroleva
Work Department
Commodities & Trade Finance and Receivables & Supply Chain Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Veronika Koroleva is one of the most experienced trade and commodity finance lawyers in the market. Until 2016 she has led an award-winning practice at a top 20 law firm and was recognised as a leading practitioner in trade and commodity finance and in emerging markets finance by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Veronika has advised on a wide range of structured trade and commodity transactions, including pre-export and prepayment financings, borrowing base facilities and ownership-based structures, receivables finance and supply chain finance. She has been recognised as Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 2021 and 2022.
Previous Law Firms
- Dentons (formerly Denton Wilde Sapte), London
- Barclays Bank, secondee in-house counsel supporting trade finance business in the UK
- Andersen Legal, Moscow (practising Russian law)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Trade finance
Clients of gunnercooke LLP praise the firm’s ‘excellent product and market knowledge‘ and its ‘reliable and efficient‘ service. Specialist commodities and finance lawyers Marc Weisberger and Veronika Koroleva (who ‘provides exceptional work in developing documentation‘) lead the practice, which acts for lenders, borrowers and many other market participants, with a particular focus on alternative finance providers, international banks with a UK presence, and commodity traders. Since the arrival of Matthew Harvey from Gowling WLG in 2023, Stephan Smoktunowicz joined from the same firm to add notable experience in receivables financing. The firm’s market-leading blockchain and crypto practice places it at the forefront of decentralised commodities trading platform initiatives.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Finance > Trade finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing