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.

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.

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.

Accreditations and Memberships

• London Solicitors Litigation Association
• Representative on the Associates Committee of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum

Publications and Media

• Margin calls: common sources of dispute and practical considerations
• ESG litigation: key trends on the horizon
• Beata Brachkov, Associate – Commercial Litigation – Career story

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.