Lily is a dual qualified lawyer with over 11 years of successful practice in the legal systems of England and Wales, Belgium, and Russia. Lily expanded her legal competence by qualifying in the common-law system of England and Wales, specialising in commercial contracts and litigation, including international commercial arbitration, demonstrating a unique merger of legal knowledge from diverse jurisdictions.
Lily has worked in international law practices in London, Brussels, and Moscow, where she handled complex cases involving construction projects in the oil and gas sector, shareholders’ disputes, property-related disputes and enforcement of arbitration awards.
Lily is a Faculty Leader for Oil and Gas at the Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications and teaches professionals on intricacies of drafting and negotiating oil & gas and LNG sales contracts, and transportation agreements.
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Lisa has particular expertise in bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and market abuse matters and has acted for clients in some of the most high-profile cases brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS and other UK and international prosecution authorities. Many of those cases involved complex cross boarder issues such as requests made pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties, double jeopardy, human rights, and extradition. Lisa has also successfully challenged decisions made by different prosecuting authorities in judicial review proceedings and under the victims right to review scheme.
In addition, Lisa has considerable experience acting for clients in civil fraud and director misfeasance cases, civil tax matters brought by HMRC, as well as personal and company insolvency matters.
Lisa is well known and respected in the industry as someone who can provide pragmatic and results oriented advice.
W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited. The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.
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