There is arguably a tendency among those of us who maintain cross-border practices to focus on substantive legislation and perhaps even to make the implicit assumption that attendant procedural niceties will resolve themselves in one jurisdiction in pretty much the same manner as another.
Some time ago, our law firm opened a representative office in London strictly to provide administrative support for our own efforts there. Nonetheless, we attracted the attention of both private individuals and law firms for help with issues in Ukraine and, as a result, developed an English litigation support team.
