Kristian Assirati

Kristian acts for clients across a range of sectors in domestic and international litigation and arbitration. He has particular experience and expertise in complex cross-border commercial and fraud matters together with corporate disputes.

Much of his corporate disputes work involves acting on shareholder claims and claims for breaches of directors' duties. His experience includes acting/advising on derivative claims, unfair prejudice petitions, rectification proceedings, and post-M&A contractual disputes. Kristian recently acted for the successful claimants in a derivative claim (Boston Trust Company Limited v Szerelmey Limited). It is one of the very few derivative claims which proceeded to trial and which, prior to trial, involved numerous interim applications and an appeal to the Court of Appeal.

His cross-border disputes experience includes complicated jurisdiction challenges, freezing injunction applications, enforcement of judgments, fraud claims, insolvency disputes.  
He also has significant experience advising international businesses on compliance with UK financial sanctions, including sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Kristian is named in the Legal 500 as a 'rising star'. He trained with Osborne Clarke and qualified in September 2016.

Helping you succeed in tomorrow's world

I look to cut through the complexity of multi-faceted disputes to bring structure and simplicity to claims whilst always looking to achieve my client's commercial objectives. In doing so I look beyond the immediate legal issues in play and take a holistic and strategic view of a matter.