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About
Provided by Anna Medvinskaia
Practice Areas
Consumer, financial services, commercial, regulatory and life sciences
Career
Specialist in consumer and regulatory law, including e-commerce and digital rights, unfair trading, advertising and financial services.
• Acts for major online platforms, high street retailers, and regulators and government agencies.
• Regularly instructed in cases involving complex questions of EU law and public law.
• Holds a first class LL.M degree from the University of Cambridge.
• Was a visiting lawyer at the European Commission (Consumer Enforcement Unit).
• Taught EU law at the London School of Economics (having previously worked as a research assistant there).
Professional Memberships
Bar European Group; Young Public Lawyers' Group; Food Law Group; Bar Council's European Committee
Publications
• Author of the advertising chapter and co-author of the consumer rights chapter in ‘Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice’ (Lexis)
• Contributing editor of ‘The Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law’ (Sweet & Maxwell)
• Co-author (with Professor Riefa) of the ‘Consumer Law on the Internet’ chapter in ‘Gringras: The Laws of the Internet’ (Bloomsbury Professional, 2022)
Personal
Fluent in English, Russian and Swedish. Working knowledge of French.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Anna Medvinskaia regularly represents businesses, directors and enforcing authorities in unfair trading, food law and financial regulation cases, among other matters. Her consumer law practice is aided by her background in the European Commission's consumer enforcement unit.
Anna Medvinskaia is a well-respected junior whose consumer finance practice involves representing financial institutions in mis-selling and consumer credit cases.
Contributions
Latest contributions provided by Anna Medvinskaia
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Anna Medvinskaia is very personable, knowledgeable and someone who takes a very commercial approach."
"Anna can be wholeheartedly trusted to get to grips with complex questions very quickly. She delivers pragmatic advice in a way that is easy to understand."
"Anna is a very strong individual with great analytical skills."
"Anna understands issues immediately and is able to give clear and robust advice."
"Anna is approachable, involved and on top of the detail."
"Anna is easy to deal with and achieves excellent results."
"Anna Medvinskaia is very personable, knowledgeable and someone who takes a very commercial approach."
"Anna can be wholeheartedly trusted to get to grips with complex questions very quickly. She delivers pragmatic advice in a way that is easy to understand."
"Anna is a very strong individual with great analytical skills."
"Anna understands issues immediately and is able to give clear and robust advice."
"Anna is approachable, involved and on top of the detail."
"Anna is easy to deal with and achieves excellent results."
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