Nataliya Yankovska
Senior Associate

Nataliya is a senior associate in PCB Byrne’s civil team. She represents clients in high-value and complex domestic and international disputes, with experience spanning commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. Her litigation practice includes civil fraud, shareholder and trust disputes.

Her investment treaty experience includes assisting investors with claims and a state in defending an arbitration claim, as well as assessing potential bilateral investment treaty (BIT) claims. She also has experience engaging with third-party funders in relation to prospective disputes.
Her crypto disputes experience includes High Court shareholder litigation concerning a global cryptocurrency and digital payments platform. Her work on the case required a detailed understanding of the platform’s cryptocurrency operations and business model, including their relevance to the valuation of the business.
Nataliya has particular experience acting for clients from Central and Eastern Europe and Asia, including ultra-high-net-worth individuals, governments, companies and banks.
Nataliya won the TL4 FIRE Future Thought Leaders Essay Competition 2026 for her essay examining how courts and practitioners can adapt enforcement strategies to the challenges of tracing and recovering digital assets

Notable Experience

• Currently defending company directors against claims concerning alleged transfers of assets worth US$115 million from the company to the directors, involving allegations of breaches of fiduciary duty, transactions at an undervalue and preferences. 
• Acted for a shareholder of a global cryptocurrency and digital payments platform in a High Court shareholders’ dispute concerning joint venture arrangements and beneficial ownership of shares, including claims for breach of confidence and unlawful means conspiracy..
• Acted for a high-net-worth Ukrainian investor in multi-party High Court fraud proceedings involving claims and counterclaims with an aggregate value exceeding US$1 billion.
• Represented two high-net-worth individuals in a multi-party, cross-border trust dispute in the British Virgin Islands. 
• Represented one of the largest state-owned Ukrainian banks in multiple LCIA arbitrations and assisted the bank with an investment treaty claim.

• Assisted an Eastern European state in defending an investment treaty arbitration claim.
• Assisted in a complex arbitration under the SIAC Rules arising from the Myanmar coup d’état.

Background

Before joining PCB Byrne, Nataliya worked in the London office of a global US law firm and at a London-based group and commercial litigation firm.
She holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the International Association of Young Lawyers. Nataliya is fluent in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

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