Stephenson Harwood has been replaced by Addleshaw Goddard as adviser to the former chairman of Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov on a multibillion-dollar fraud case.

Addleshaws was formally instructed on the case earlier this month, with litigation head Richard Leedham now leading the case for the firm, alongside fellow litigation partners Ian Hargreaves, Jon Tweedale and Jamie Harrison.