Elena Edwards

Background

About Elena Edwards

I am a professional interpreter / translator with several years of experience in the UK and US financial sector (reinsurance and banking) and over 20 years of experience interpreting for the City financial and legal firms and for numerous international organisations, as well as senior government officials and business executives. I am a qualified member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (MITI), a member of AIIC and a member of the British-Russian Law Association and British-Kazakh Law Association. I specialize in the following areas: law (corporate, tax, litigation & dispute resolution, including international arbitration, investment disputes, criminal, libel, immigration, human rights, family), banking and finance, medicine, accounting, audit, power and energy. I have translated and interpreted for international clients such as the UN, European Parliament, European Union, Council of Europe, World Bank, EBRD, as well as private clients such as the London Court of International Arbitration, the Royal Courts of Justice (the High Court, most recently, in Avonwick v Dargamo /Azitio et al; Filatona/Deripaska v Navigator/Chernukhin/Navio and in Danilina v Chernukhin/Navigator/Kargin; past cases included Berezovsky v Abramovich; Otkritiye v Urumov; Baturina vs Chistyakov), the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Law Society and the Bar Council of England and Wales, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Skadden Arps, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cleary Gottlieb, King & Spalding, Reed Smith, White & Case, Mishcon de Reya, Hogan Lovells, Hughes Fowler Carruthers (most recently, in Sardarov v Sardarova and in Timokhin v Timokhina), Withers, Akin Gump, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BGI, Shell, Schlumberger, UBS, Schroeders, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Luxoft and other leading firms and organisations. My medical clients included Walgreens Boots Alliance, Parexel, GSK and many others. My working languages for simultaneous and consecutive interpreting are English (B), Russian and Belarusian(A). I also offer translation and interpreting from Ukrainian and Polish (C). elena@japan-translate.co.uk +44 (0)1483 277535 Mob:+44 (0)7932 032 216