Beata
Brachkov
Associate
Commercial Litigation and Securities Litigation
+44 (0)20 7936 8147
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Beata assists with complex and high-value commercial disputes, with a particular focus on banking and financial services disputes and securities litigation. She has acted on a number of the ground-breaking securities cases in the UK as well as several high-profile banking and financial services cases.
Expertise
Beata’s work focuses on high-value, complex, and multi-party disputes. Her cases have included banking and financial services disputes, securities claims, shareholder disputes, and fraud claims.
She has experience of assisting in class actions and group litigation in a securities context.
Beata is a solicitor advocate with Civil Higher Rights of Audience.
Career
Beata joined Stewarts as a paralegal in the Commercial Litigation department, having completed an LLB degree in International and European Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and an LLM degree at University College London.
Beata trained at Stewarts and qualified into the Commercial Litigation department in September 2020, becoming a solicitor advocate with Civil Higher Rights of Audience.
Publications and media
Experience
- Acting for 313 financial institutions in the RBS Rights Issue Litigation to recover shareholder losses arising out of RBS’s £12bn rights issue
- Acting for nine corporate and individual defendants in the SKAT Litigation, one of the largest pieces of litigation in the London courts, relating to the Danish tax authority’s claims to recover £1.6bn of dividend withholding tax reclaims alleged to have been obtained by cum-ex fraud
- Acting for a foreign bank in multi-party proceedings regarding the enforceability of government guarantees supporting over €500m of loans and in a related arbitration dispute concerning contested insurance coverage
- Acting for over 50 financial institutions in their securities claim against Tesco to recover shareholder losses arising from Tesco’s 2014 accounting scandal
- Acting for 44 financial institutions against Glencore in their group securities claim for losses relating to disclosure of Glencore’s bribery and corruption scandal.
Accreditations and memberships
- London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Representative on the Associates Committee of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum
Personal
Beata’s interests include attending all sorts of cultural events, such as classical concerts, opera and musicals. She also enjoys outdoor and sporting activities, particularly swimming.
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