Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution, Gateley

Richard has expertise in restructuring matters and complex and international dispute resolution. He has significant extra-territorial experience in cross-border insolvency, tax avoidance, evasion and fraud, asset protection, tracing and recovery and of representing parties in disputes, both in the High Court and London Court of International Arbitration, as well as numerous overseas courts. Richard is heavily focused on asset tracing assignments deriving from Ukraine, Russia and some Former Soviet Union countries. In particular Richard has been retained in a number of matters involving claims on behalf of ultra-high net worth individuals/ corporations emanating from the region.

He has lectured extensively for various UK and overseas organisations including: the St Petersburg International Legal Forum; The EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine; Senior Government Officials in the Republic of Uzbekistan; Sberbank of Russia and others.