Elena is a Managing Associate in the Dispute Resolution department, specialising in civil fraud, commercial litigation and contentious insolvency matters.
She has acted for high-net worth individuals, governments, insolvency practitioners and large companies in a wide range of disputes which are often complex and multi-jurisdictional in nature. She undertakes investigations to identify whether her clients have been the victims of fraud, obtains injunctive relief to protect assets and pursues litigation and enforcement action on behalf of clients all around the world.
Elena has particular experience of:
- Asset Recovery - Obtaining and defending against a variety of High Court injunctions, including, worldwide freezing orders, delivery up orders and proprietary injunctions.
- Commercial Litigation - Litigating claims founded in the torts of conspiracy and deceit, breaches of contract, breach of directors and fiduciary duty and breach of trust.
- Contentious Insolvency - Leading investigations for insolvency practitioners (in particular, using the powers available pursuant to s234, s235 & s236 of the Insolvency Act 1986), advising insolvency practitioners in relation to the realisation of assets and their duties to the Court and creditors, advising the creditors of insolvent counterparties both pre and post an insolvency event.
- Advisory - Advising publicly listed corporate clients on listing, regulatory and competition issues, data breach notification requirements.
- Arbitration – Acting for commercial entities in arbitral proceedings, brought under the major institutional rules (LCIA, ICC) and enforcement of arbitral awards.
- Elena is also a co-founder of the UK Cypriot Enterprise Counsel's "Gen Y Innovation Network".