Since joining the firm in 2018 and qualifying in 2021, Anastasia has worked on applications for innovative interim relief, proceedings in support of arbitration, cross-border contractual disputes and contentious insolvencies.
Anastasia’s practice focuses on disputes arising from bank liquidation proceedings and domestic employee fraud with an accent on technology-enabled wrongdoing. She has acted for traditional financial institutions and fintechs, cryptocurrency developers and fund managers in a full range of commercial disputes, preliminary investigations and enforcement proceedings. These include multi-jurisdictional asset tracing matters, applications for extensive worldwide freezing, search, disclosure and passport surrender orders, such as those obtained by Anastasia and the PCB team in one of Russia’s biggest ever bank frauds. Separately, Anastasia has successfully managed connected proceedings in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, overseen the preparation of various expert evidence reports, and supported a parallel criminal complaint, investigation and prosecution.
Anastasia speaks five languages: English, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Mandarin, also currently learning Romanian and Greek. She is active in the professional community and a regular author of legal analysis publications, listed as a Dispute Resolution Expert on LexisPSL.