Ligia is Senior Associate specialising in high value, complex commercial disputes, civil fraud, and financial services disputes both domestic and cross border.
Ligia has significant experience in acting for banks and other financial institutions, corporate clients as well as high net worth individuals on a broad range of complex disputes. Ligia regularly handles disputes relating to trust, investments funds, shareholder agreements, supply of goods, civil fraud, and protection of confidential information. Ligia also advises on matters involving warranty and indemnity claims.
Ligia has also dealt with matters relating to mis-selling of financial products, regulatory investigations, and compliance issues.
Ligia qualified as a solicitor in 2010 and as an advocate in Romania in 2004. Prior to joining Grosvenor Law, Ligia worked both in the City and in the Gibraltar office of an international boutique litigation law firm specialising in complex commercial litigation with international aspect. In 2010 Ligia was also admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar.
Ligia was recognised in the Legal 500 EMEA Guide (2021) as a Recommanded Lawyer, with clients commenting that “Ligia Bob is everything you want – very smart, quick and super efficient”.
Recent cases include:
- Acting for a Liechtenstein insurance company (in liquidation) against its former directors for the recovery of misappropriated funds in excess of £18million, which included obtaining a freezing injunction.
- Acting for a UK car manufacturer in a warranty claim against a German supplier in relation to the purchase of assemblies of vehicle corners which included brake calipers. Connected to the first claim, there was also claim advanced by the German supplier against an Italian manufacturer.
- Acting for a well-known businessman and former Prime Minister of Georgia, in a multi-jurisdictional dispute regarding the investment of funds belonging to a Singapore Trust. Proceedings were issued in London, Switzerland, Singapore, Bermuda and BVI.