The Team

The principal behind LATURIS Limited is Mr. Pavel Prosyankin.  Mr. Prosyankin was born in the Soviet Union.  He was awarded an MSc in International Economics from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1994. In 1995 he received a  Certificate in Banking and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. In 1997 Mr Prosyankin received an  MBA degree from Said Business School at Oxford University. He also holds a CFA designation. He is fully bilingual in English and Russian. 

Mr Prosyankin began his career as a corporate finance and due diligence specialist with Deloitte in Moscow. Upon graduating from Said Business School of University of Oxford with his MBA degree, Mr Prosyankin worked for several years as an investment banker for Bankers Trust in London specialising in structuring various derivative products for corporate clients. Mr Prosyankin continued his investment banking career in Moscow where he worked for local investments banks (Troika Dialog and Renaissance Capital) as well as Credit Suisse where he was the director responsible for structuring equity backed financing and equity derivatives transactions for corporate clients and high net worth individuals. In the course of his work, Mr Prosyankin gained significant experience in managing projects, tasking and overseeing in-house and external legal teams, and educating banks’ clients on complex financial and legal issues.

In 2009 Mr Prosyankin was headhunted to work for BTA Bank, Kazakhstan on what was the largest corporate fraud in Kazakh history and would become the largest commercial litigation in the High Court of England and Wales. Mr Prosyankin worked on the BTA Bank asset recovery project for nearly six years, first as a senior advisor to the bank and later as managing director and member of the bank’s management board. 

Mr Prosyankin successfully led the development and implementation of the international strategy of multi-jurisdictional litigation and asset recovery process on behalf of BTA Bank. 

The main focus of this project was a highly successful $6 billion dollar litigation in the Commercial Court of the High Court of England and Wales. In February 2014 Bloomberg Markets described Mr Prosyankin as the “financial brain” of the entire process.

As part of this work Mr. Prosyankin was responsible for managing teams of professionals (lawyers, forensic accountants, corporate investigators, bankers, etc.) and acting as a liaison between such professionals and the bank’s management board, the board of directors and the shareholders.

Interviewing and selecting solicitors and barristers, determining strategy, appropriate jurisdiction and forum, time planning, budget, PR, training, disclosure and document management matters are all matters in which Mr Prosyankin has had significant experience, in particular in London.

Between 2014 and 2016 Mr Prosyankin had a similar role with another major piece of London litigation and asset recovery on behalf of JSC Mezhdunarodny Promyshlenny Bank, Moscow and its statutory liquidator Deposit Insurance Agency of Russia with a total claim amount in excess of $1 billion.

In 2017 Mr Prosyankin set up LATURIS Limited and has been advising clients on all aspects of commercial litigation management and asset recovery.