Marina Boterashvili

Marina Boterashvili is a Partner in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. She helps clients navigate complex, high-stakes commercial disputes, often across multiple jurisdictions. Equally experienced in commercial litigation and international arbitration, Marina’s practice covers civil fraud, financial disputes, shareholder and joint venture conflicts, asset recovery, and enforcement. She also acts on matters involving sanctions and contentious trusts.

Marina acts for a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, multinational corporations, sovereign states, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals. Her experience spans key sectors such as energy, natural resources, financial services, technology, real estate and aviation.

A trusted adviser on cases involving fraud, asset tracing and enforcement, Marina has prosecuted and defended multi-billion-dollar claims, and regularly secures or challenges freezing orders, anti-suit injunctions, disclosure orders and other interim relief in English and offshore courts. Her cases are typically multi-jurisdictional, requiring strategic coordination across courts and arbitral forums around the world. She has particular expertise managing proceedings in offshore jurisdictions, working seamlessly with local specialist counsel, where necessary. She is regularly instructed on behalf of ad hoc groups of claimants (including bondholders and shareholders), and has significant experience with putting together such groups, and conducting proceedings on their behalf, including coordination with trustees appointed in respect of complex financial structures.

Marina is often instructed by clients to assess risk and design litigation strategies that anticipate the twists and turns of high-value claims, before proceedings have been commenced or even threatened. She regularly acts on cases through to trial and appeal and has represented clients in some of the most significant matters before the English High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Several of her cases have been recognized in The Lawyer’s “Top 20 Cases” for given years.

In arbitration, Marina has significant experience of acting under ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA and SCC rules, in both investor-state and commercial disputes, and was part of the team recognized as Arbitration Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards in 2021. Marina also frequently advises on the enforcement of arbitral awards and challenges to enforcement.

Her representative matters include defending a challenge to the enforcement of a multi-billion dollar arbitral award on grounds that the underlying contract and award had been obtained through fraud and corruption; acting in a landmark multi-party shareholder dispute involving allegations of deceit and conspiracy between former business partners in one of Ukraine’s largest companies, with total claims exceeding USD 1 billion; representing clients in sanctions-related litigation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and advising ad hoc groups of bondholders and shareholders in disputes over the interpretation of contractual provisions in respect of financial products.

Marina is ranked in leading legal directories across civil fraud, commercial and banking litigation, and international arbitration. According to Legal 500, she “manages complex litigation brilliantly” and is “very talented and always calm and in control.” She has been named a Rising Star by Law.com, a “next generation” arbitration lawyer by Legal Business, and one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Litigators for international disputes and asset recovery.