Ianika Tzankova

Ianika is the Head of Global Dispute Resolution & Collective Redress. She is a pioneer in collective redress and has held the first European professorship in this field since 2007. She combines academia with practice and is internationally recognised for her knowledge of strategies for resolving cross-border mass disputes, using innovative litigation and alternative dispute resolution approaches. 

Ianika was previously a partner with a large litigation boutique where she was member of the Financial and Commercial Litigation practice group and has also worked in-house for two publicly listed litigation funders.

Having assisted corporate clients, collective redress litigants, litigation funders, governmental and non-profit organisations, ‘bookbuild’ entities, case originators, and Dutch and foreign legal counsel on all aspects of mass claim dispute resolution, Ianika is a ‘mass claims all-rounder’.

She is much sought after for legal opinions and the structuring and implementation of creative litigation strategies in multi-jurisdictional disputes, particularly in the areas of investor protection, competition, data privacy, product liability and consumer law. 

In addition, Ianika assists high-net-worth individuals, family businesses, corporate clients and foreign law firms with litigation project management in complex high-profile commercial disputes, involving the use of PR and litigation financing. She has also a keen interest in multi-jurisdictional asset tracing and enforcement.

Ianika is alumna of Tilburg University and holds a PhD on Access to Justice in Mass Claims.