Bilshan Nursimulu

Bilshan is a Partner at Orison Legal, a leading commercial law firm based in Mauritius. He read law at the University of Cambridge and Université Paris II (Assas-Panthéon) and also holds a Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration from Columbia Law School.

He was called to the English Bar in 2012 and has practised at the Mauritian Bar since 2015.

Orison Legal combines a leading disputes practice with a significant transactional offering. The firm is regularly instructed on complex cross-border matters arising from the Mauritius International Financial Centre, where it advises investment funds, corporates and financial institutions on structuring, governance and financing. Its disputes team is recognised for its expertise in commercial and corporate litigation while the transactional practice advises on corporate finance, investment structuring and M&A. Orison Legal is known for delivering commercially focused advice to clients operating across India and Africa through Mauritius.

Bilshan specialises in commercial and corporate disputes, with particular focus on international commercial arbitration, insolvency and cross-border asset recovery. His cross-border practice is closely connected to the Mauritius International Financial Centre, with companies incorporated in Mauritius to hold investments in India and Africa. He regularly represents clients in complex, multi-jurisdictional matters, including shareholder disputes, enforcement of arbitral awards and proceedings involving distressed companies.

He is ranked for dispute resolution and arbitration in Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal (now Lexology Index) and Legal 500. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the African Arbitration Awards in the category of the Young Arbitration Practitioner of the Year.

Alice Baccin

Alice Baccin provides judicial assistance and out-of-court advice to individuals and legal entities in all the main areas of white-collar and corporate crime, with a particular focus on corporate and bankruptcy frauds, tax crime, market abuse and financial crime, money-laundering, bribery, environmental crime, health and safety crime violations, cybercrime, IP and copyright criminal law.

She likewise advises clients on compliance-related issues under Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, internal investigations, anticorruption and international sanctions.

As a teaching assistant, she collaborates with the chair of Criminal Law of the University of Verona and is author of several publications related to white-collar and corporate crime.

Yiannis Bazinas

Dr. Yiannis Bazinas is managing partner at Bazinas Law Firm in Athens, Greece. His practice focuses on commercial disputes, corporate law and insolvency. He has extensive experience in advising foreign clients on restructuring and insolvency proceedings, corporate structures and commercial transactions in Greece as well as representing them in related disputes before the Greek courts.

Dr. Bazinas holds a PhD in Law from University College London, where he taught as a Graduate Lecturer, and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago.

He frequently publishes articles in Greek as well as in English in a number of fields including corporate law, insolvency, private international law and intermediated securities. He is a member of INSOL Europe, the International Insolvency Institute’s Next Gen Leadership Program and the Association of Greek Commercialists

Olga Bischof

Olga is a Partner specialising in all areas of commercial litigation and arbitration with an emphasis on complex fraud. She has represented clients in disputes in all divisions of the High Court, the Court of Appeal and pursuant to the rules of many arbitration institutions. Olga also has a wide range of experience of litigating in offshore jurisdictions, such as the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus.

The Legal 500 UK Commercial Litigation, 2016 – 2024. She is described as “a complete delight to work with, very sensible and pragmatic and never flustered. She has a natural instinct as a litigator for the right point and the right approach, not wasting time on grandstanding.”
The Legal 500 UK Fraud: Civil, Banking Litigation: Investment & Retail, 2021
The Legal 500 UK Fraud: Civil, 2024. She is described as “a brilliant and dynamic lawyer. A go-to partner for bringing or defending a civil fraud claim.”

Olga studied European Law at the University of Exeter and completed her course with First Class Honours. She qualified as a solicitor with Brown Rudnick LLP in 2010 and became a partner with them in February 2018. In June 2023 she joined PCB Byrne.Olga is fluent in Russian.

Markus Stadler

Markus is an experienced international legal practitioner specialising in fraud and asset recovery, who is admitted to practice in the BVI, District of Columbia, New York, Massachusetts, and as a solicitor in England and Wales.

He joined MKS Law from Hughes Hubbard & Reed in Washington, D.C., and Paris, where he was part of the Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations practice group.

He has advised on antitrust and anti-corruption matters, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act, and has extensive experience with cross-border matters, particularly involving Europe and North and South America.

Markus is a graduate of Harvard Law School, plus holds a BA in International Relations and German from The John Hopkins University and an MBA from Columbia University.  Prior to his career in law, he worked as an investment banker and financial analyst in the world’s financial centres, including Los Angeles, London, and New York.

Markus is fluent in English, Spanish, and German and proficient in French and Portuguese.

Cathrine Wollenberg Zittan

Cathrine advises on business-related issues, including estate administration, handling creditor positions and reconstruction/refinancing and management liability and the professional liability of advisors.