Tobias routinely provides investigative support in international litigation and arbitration across CEE, Russia/CIS, SWANA, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America as well as offshore jurisdictions in Europe, the Caribbean and Asia.  

Tobias co-heads Raedas’s CIS practice and leads the firm’s work in the CEE region. 

Evidence gathered by Tobias has been submitted to the High Court of England and Wales, US federal courts in the Southern District of New York, the Guernsey Royal Court, European courts and arbitral tribunals constituted under the rules of and administered by ICSID, LCIA, ICC, PCA and other regional arbitration centres, in support of worldwide freezing orders, Norwich Pharmacal applications, section 1782 applications and civil fraud proceedings. 

Tobias’ recent cases revolve around disputes in the energy, tech, fertiliser, telecoms, real estate, yachting and banking sectors and include:  

• an investigation into fraud and money-laundering in the context of Austria’s largest corporate insolvency in support of an ICC arbitration and an LCIA arbitration which resulted in two awards of aggregate value of over EUR 1 billion, a worldwide freeze order against a trust structure and a Norwich Pharmacal order against a yacht management company; 

• an investigation into the asset position of a Russian banker based in the UK in support of insolvency proceedings in the UK, ancillary Chapter 15 proceedings in the US, disclosure orders in the BVI, Marshall Islands and Cyprus, resulting in a worldwide freezing order in excess of GBP 700 million, a bankruptcy order, and a landmark High Court ruling on ownership and control in the context of the UK Russia Regulation 7 (Hellard & Ors v OJSC Rossiysky Kredit Bank & Ors [2024] EWHC 1783 (Ch));  

• an investigation in the context of a USD 800 million fraud perpetrated against a North African bank which involved over two dozen jurisdictions, including France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Malta, Kazakhstan, the US, the UAE, the BVI, Hong Kong, Panama and Spain;  

• an investigation into corruption at a CIS state-owned oil company and potential collusion between government officials in support of a multi-billion ICSID investment arbitration;  

• providing evidence in support of a PCA investment arbitration on behalf of the respondent state in a EUR 1 billion claim;  

• investigating potential conspiracy between two US-based chemicals companies in an anticipated breach-of-contract arbitration with damages exceeding USD 300 million; 

• advising on the enforcement of an anticipated CHF 300 million award against a party in the Middle East, including against receivables and physical assets in Qatar, Bahrain, Japan and Thailand;  

• tracing the assets of a European bank in Russia in support of a high-profile European litigation around the dispute over a EUR 2 billion LNG project;  

• the tracing the assets of a sovereign southern European state for the enforcement of an anticipated multi-billion US dollar arbitral award for a mining investor. 

In addition to casework, Tobias has extensive experience in providing consultancy and intelligence services in relation to the US, UK and EU sanctions regimes.  

Tobias regularly contributes to panels on international arbitration, sanctions, asset recovery and investigative support of legal proceedings. Tobias has also appeared as a guest lecturer at the Geneva Master’s programme in International Disputes Settlement (MIDS). 

A native German speaker, Tobias is fluent in Russian and speaks conversational Ukrainian and French. He has lived and worked in Germany, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.  

Recent speaking engagements: 

• 16 June 2026 (London, UK): “Reputation in the age of misinformation”. International Forum of Senior Executive Advisers (IFSEA). 

• 13 June 2026 (Riga, Latvia): “Arbitration in Geopolitically Uncertain Times”. ICC YAAF Baltic Arbitration Days Young Arbitrators Forum 2026.  

• 5 June 2026 (London, UK): “Mind the Gap: Transforming Abstract Awards into Concrete Assets”. London International Disputes Week (LIDW) 2026. 

• 26 March 2026 (Paris, France): “Trace, Freeze and Collect – When the Forum Isn’t Your Friend: Enforcement across Eastern Europe and Asia”. Paris Arbitration Week (PAW) 2026. 

• 10 October 2024 (Podgorica, Montenegro): “New Developments in Third-Party Funding and Arbitration in the CEE Region”. Balkan Arbitration Conference 2024. 

• 10 September 2024 (Berlin, Germany): “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Only Upsides to AI in Arbitration?”. DIS Autumn Conference 2024. 

• 20 March 2024 (Paris, France): “VIAC takes a deep dive into enforcement of awards in Central and Eastern Europe”. Paris Arbitration Week (PAW) 2024.