Stephanie Silverston

Experience: Representative Matters: Acting for a corporate client in a significant asset recovery claim against a former director, involving assets and trust structures in the UK, New Zealand, France, and Germany.; Acting for a beneficiary of a trust in relation to beddoe proceedings in Jersey with parallel proceedings in Canada which had at the heart allegations of fraud.; Acting for a beneficiary of a multijurisdictional, multimillion-dollar estate in respect of their entitlement under Sharia law and advising the client on strategy for recovery.; Acting for Bank Frick & Co AG to successfully strike out a claim brought by the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals (as liquidator of National Credit Bank PJSC). The claim concerned the scope of s.423 Insolvency Act 1986. [2022] EWHC 2221 (Ch).; Acting for the Official Liquidator of a Cayman Fund in respect of misfeasance claims against the Investment Manager and former directors of the Investment Manager and the Fund.; Acting for a major construction company in relation to various confidential disputes arising from the design and construction of a combined-cycle power plant in Asia.; Acting for a HNW in respect of a just and equitable winding up petition.; Acting for applicants and respondents to letters of request under the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 in respect of obtaining or resisting the provision of evidence in England for use in foreign proceedings.; Acting for the Administrators of London Capital and Finance plc wherein it was alleged that LCF acted as a Ponzi scheme and that hundreds of millions of pounds were misappropriated.; Acting for London Oil & Gas Limited (in Administration) in [2020] EWHC 35 (Ch) where the administrators' appointment was unsuccessfully challenged.; Acting for the Applicants in the matter of AA v BB [2021] EWHC 1833 (Ch)which is the leading case regarding the effect of a proprietary freezing order on the payment of legal expenses.; Acted for a Russian businessman in respect of a claim brought by an organ of the Russian State, in relation to alleged participation in a large-scale fraud leading to the collapse of a bank.; Acted for an UHNW client defending a claim for knowing receipt and dishonest assistance with parallel foreign criminal proceedings. Obtained security for costs against a foreign state-owned oil company.; Acted for HNW defendants and their companies who were served with a worldwide freezing order in respect of a claim for secret commissions and diversion of profits which was settled in the early stages of litigation, prior to defences being filed.; Obtained a post-judgment freezing order for a Saudi prince in a high-profile shareholder dispute, which involved cross-unfair prejudice petitions and the assertion of sovereign immunity.; Obtained Norwich Pharmacal relief against a number of banks in order to trace into the proceeds of a fraud and assets purchased with those funds.; The above representations were handled by Ms. Silverston prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.