Full Name
Natalia Chumak
Job Title
Partner
Company
Signature Litigation
Speaker Bio
Natalia is a Partner at Signature’s London office. Having joined Signature in 2013, shortly after its inception, Natalia’s current role is centred on strategic development of the firm’s international arbitration practice across all its offices and she is the firm's AI Lead.
Natalia is a regular speaker on AI-related panel events and frequently contributes to publications addressing AI adoption and its value within the legal sector.
Natalia is a seasoned disputes lawyer with over 20 years of arbitration and litigation experience in complex and high value international disputes often involving several jurisdictions and multiple parties. Natalia has significant experience in handling arbitration disputes under most major arbitration institutions with the primary focus on the LCIA and SCC.
Natalia’s experience spans across many industry sectors including energy (oil and gas upstream, electricity/infrastructure), water, mining &natural resources, metallurgical, banking, agro-trading, construction, aviation, automobile, railway, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing (plastics) and others.
Her legal career has a strong historic foundation in acting for clients from former Soviet Republics (Ukraine, Russia, Central Asian states).
Natalia has extensive experience in a variety of commercial disputes including contractual disputes arising out of SPAs and related contractual documentation, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements, memoranda of understanding, option agreements, debt finance agreements and related security documentation, personal guarantees, partnership disputes (in relation to offshore private equity structures).
Natalia also has extensive experience in disputes concerning asset valuation, oral high level agreements between international high-net-worth individuals in relation to joint investments, fraud & corruption claims and related asset tracing actions, claims arising out of liquidation of investment funds.
Natalia has significant experience in both applying for and opposing the grant of freezing orders and other interim relief, jurisdictional challenges, enforcement of arbitral awards in offshore jurisdictions and related insolvency proceedings.
Natalia has been ranked in Chambers Global for nine years including in Chambers Global 2025 and has been recommended in The Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK for several years. Natalia was admitted as solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2002.
Natalia is a regular speaker on AI-related panel events and frequently contributes to publications addressing AI adoption and its value within the legal sector.
Natalia is a seasoned disputes lawyer with over 20 years of arbitration and litigation experience in complex and high value international disputes often involving several jurisdictions and multiple parties. Natalia has significant experience in handling arbitration disputes under most major arbitration institutions with the primary focus on the LCIA and SCC.
Natalia’s experience spans across many industry sectors including energy (oil and gas upstream, electricity/infrastructure), water, mining &natural resources, metallurgical, banking, agro-trading, construction, aviation, automobile, railway, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing (plastics) and others.
Her legal career has a strong historic foundation in acting for clients from former Soviet Republics (Ukraine, Russia, Central Asian states).
Natalia has extensive experience in a variety of commercial disputes including contractual disputes arising out of SPAs and related contractual documentation, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements, memoranda of understanding, option agreements, debt finance agreements and related security documentation, personal guarantees, partnership disputes (in relation to offshore private equity structures).
Natalia also has extensive experience in disputes concerning asset valuation, oral high level agreements between international high-net-worth individuals in relation to joint investments, fraud & corruption claims and related asset tracing actions, claims arising out of liquidation of investment funds.
Natalia has significant experience in both applying for and opposing the grant of freezing orders and other interim relief, jurisdictional challenges, enforcement of arbitral awards in offshore jurisdictions and related insolvency proceedings.
Natalia has been ranked in Chambers Global for nine years including in Chambers Global 2025 and has been recommended in The Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK for several years. Natalia was admitted as solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2002.
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