Ekaterina Sjostrand
Barrister, England & Wales

Chambers' clients range from individuals and SMEs to large corporations, from solo legal practitioners to international law firms.
Mrs Sjostrand accepts work directly from members of the public, companies and organisations (through Direct Access). Chambers also works, and over years has established professional links, with firms of solicitors, other barristers, foreign lawyers and other professionals in different countries.
English barristers are ideal work partners for companies and firms in need of English law expertise, short or long term, which may be lacking in-house. 

Transactional/ M&A

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• Advising on various aspects of commercial contracts, joint ventures and M&A transactions (their legal status, terms and enforceability)

• Drafting contractual documents

• Assisting in negotiations

Mrs Sjostrand is a member of International Forum of Senior Executive Advisers (IFSEA)

Examples:

• Advising an EU based client in relation to breach of a complex international transportation/freight-forwarding agreement, on matters of force majeur/frustration and sanctions (2023);

• Advising on breach of various contracts, assisting with reaching a settlement (2022/2023);

• Sole arbitrator in a breach of contract claim under the ICAC Rules (Ukraine, Kiev, 2021); 

• English law expert in very high-profile foreign Commercial Court proceedings concerning an option agreement in the context of acquisition of a bank (2019);

• English law expert in various other foreign court cases (e.g. enforcement proceedings between a major industrial player and a foreign bank; breach of a commercial contract between a Russian company and a Cyprus-based group; breach of a loan agreement, and so on);

• Counsel in a case concerning recognition and enforcement in the UK of an arbitration award made by the International Commercial Arbitration Court (“ICAC”) under the auspices of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation, Moscow (2019);

• Counsel in a case concerning enforcement in England of a Freezing Order made by a Cypriot Court (2018);

• Co-counsel in Zavod Ekran OAO v Magneco Metrel UK Ltd [2017] EWHC 2208 (Comm), a high-profile case concerning recognition and enforcement in England of an arbitration award made by the ICAC (Moscow);

• Advisor to a HNW individual in relation to various jurisdictional and choice of law matters in a potential claim for breach of joint venture;

• Sole counsel for the Defendant in a multi-party arbitration case under the ICAC Rules (Moscow) concerning allegations of breach of a joint venture/ shareholders’ agreement;

• Sole counsel for the Claimant in LCIA arbitration (breach of a share purchase/ joint venture agreement); negotiating and drafting a composite settlement agreement;

• Counsel for celebrity dancers in a High Court action for breach of contract (Schaufuss Ballet v Polunin & others);

• Co-counsel in a LMAA arbitration case concerning, amongst others, issues of arbitrability and anti-arbitration injunctions;

• Member of cross-border legal teams in Tajik Aluminium Plant v Ermatov and Others (2006), High Tech International AG v Deripaska (2006), Ashton Investments Ltd v OJSC Russian Aluminium (2006), Cherney v Deripaska (2006-2007, 2011), ADI v Russpetsstal (2010)