Natalie Todd

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Civil Fraud

Asset Recovery

Enforcement

International Arbitration

Banking Litigation

Career

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (April 2022-)

PCB Litigation LLP (subsequently PCB Byrne LLP) (September 2018 - March 2022)

Taylor Wessing LLP (September 2014 - September 2018)

Signature Litigation (November 2012 to September 2014)

SJ Berwin LLP (August 2003 to November 2012)

Professional Memberships

Natalie is a founding committee member of a community for next generation disputes practitioners, ThoughtLeaders4’s Disputes.

Thought Leaders4 FIRE

IBA Committee for Asset Recovery

Law Society of England and Wales

Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association

London Solicitors Litigation Association (Committee post as Honorary Secretary)

IWIRC Europe (Board position) (INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S INSOLVENCY & RESTRUCTURING CONFEDERATION)

RAIIDAR International (Recovering Assets, Insolvency, Investigations, Disputes and Restructuring)

Publications

Natalie is a member of Lexis PSL’s Case Analysis Expert Panel on Dispute Resolution and co-edits the England and Wales chapter of ‘Enforcement of Foreign Judgements’ (published by Kluwer Law International).

She is actively involved in responding to legal consultations for the LSLA.

She regularly writes for publications. Recent topics on which he has written can be found here: https://cyklaw.com/team_member/natalie-todd/

Work Highlights

Acting for over 100 victims who have been subjected to multiple ponzi schemes with claims over £40m and liaising with the criminal authorities in relation to the claims

Acting for multiple victims of a high profile bitcoin fraud over £3bn

Advising clients in relation to a high profile contractual dispute named in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022

Acting for Chinese and Chilean clients in relation to an alleged $1bn+ fraud claim

Acting for an insolvent Russian bank relating to a £1.34bn worldwide freezing order and search order in one of Russia’s largest ever alleged frauds (Vneshprombank v Bedzhamov)

Acting for a Trustee in Bankruptcy in the largest fraudulent investment (Ponzi) scheme to hit Jamaica which involved obtaining a worldwide freezing order in Jamaica and a freezing order and Norwich Pharmacal order in the DIFC

Acting for CIS state banks in liquidation seeking to recover assets from fraudulent acts of its former management

Advising Russian and Middle Eastern banks pursuing guarantors and promoters

Acting for a commodities trader in a €225m fraud claim involving multiple arbitration and litigation claims

Acting for a defendant in a c. US$350m Russian oligarch dispute concerning the ownership of a substantial fishing enterprise

Acting on one of The Lawyer top 20 cases of 2014 involving the Blue Skye Investment Group, which was facing allegations of inter alia fraud, conspiracy and unlawful interference

Acting for a pension provider subject to a pensions liberation fraud

Acting for one of the first Eastern European oligarchs in a dispute involving bribery and corruption of foreign public officials

Acting for an international telecoms group lifting a mandatory injunction and at the same hearing, obtaining a freezing injunction and subsequently obtaining a reciprocal injunction in Cyprus