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Natalia Chumak

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Work Department

Litigation and Arbitration

Position

Natalia has 20 years of litigation and arbitration experience in complex and high value international disputes often involving several jurisdictions and multiple parties. Her legal career has a strong historic foundation in acting for clients from former Soviet Republics (Ukraine, Russia, Central Asian states).

Natalia has extensive experience in a variety of commercial disputes including contractual disputes arising out of SPAs and related contractual documentation, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements, option agreements, debt finance agreements and related security documentation, personal guarantees, partnership disputes (in relation to offshore private equity structures).

Natalia also has extensive experience in disputes concerning asset valuation, oral high level agreements between international high net worth individuals in relation to joint investments, fraud claims and related asset tracing actions, claims arising out of liquidation of investment funds.

Natalia has significant experience in both applying for and opposing the grant of freezing orders and other interim relief, jurisdictional challenges, enforcement of arbitral awards in offshore jurisdictions and related insolvency proceedings.

Natalia’s experience spans across many industry sectors including oil and gas, water, aluminium, metallurgical, banking, electricity/infrastructure, argotrading, construction, aviation, automobile, railway, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, plastic manufacturing and others.

Natalia has been a regular contributor to a variety of UK and overseas legal publications.

Career

Qualified, 2002; Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse, 2010; Partner, Signature Litigation 2013.

Languages

Fluent English and Russian. 

Leisure

Natalia is the Founder and a Trustee of UK animal welfare charity LAPA (Helping animals in Russia).