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Dispute resolution

Business disputes are an unwelcome distraction from genuine enterprise. Our focus is to assist you or your business to resolve your dispute without the need to resort to the courts or arbitration wherever possible/advisable. However, if litigation is unavoidable, rest assured, our team will advise and support you throughout that process.

Our business dispute resolution team delivers an exceptional service, working closely with clients to achieve the best possible results throughout the life of a business dispute.

We consider carefully with our clients the respective merits of each party’s position, focusing on the real issues in dispute, the risks involved and the suitability of all forms of business dispute resolution, be it by way of litigation or alternative forms of dispute resolution (ADR) such as mediation or expert determination, thereby keeping your costs in check.

Practice Areas

Arbitration

Acting for claimants and respondents in arbitration before theInternational Chamber of Commerce, London Court of International Arbitration, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Singapore International Arbitration Centre and Dubai International Arbitration Centre, enforcements of awards, application for stay of proceedings and challenges on the jurisdiction, on grounds of bias and on errors of law.

Commercial agency and distributorship

Claims for misrepresentation under Commercial Agency Regulations and claims for damages and injunctive relief in relation to agency and distribution agreements.

Commercial contracts

Claims for damages and specific petitions.

Competition and Markets Authority investigations

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) cartel investigations and consequent director disqualification applications.

Corporate

Claims relating to shareholder agreements, unfair prejudice, injunctive and declaratory relief and derivative claims. Claims relating to compulsory retirement and exits.

Cross border

Claims to enforce foreign judgments and orders.

Directors and senior employees

Claims for breaches of fidelity, fiduciary and statutory duties, breach of confidence, enforcement of garden leave and post-termination restrictions, covenants and team moves.

Financial services

Claims relating to FX trading and disputes between market traders, customers and brokers.

Fraud and asset tracing

Advising on, and subsequently pursuing or defending, freezing and civil search orders and the identification and tracing of assets and their recovery/protection. Pursuing and defending such cases across multiple jurisdictions and dealing with the enforcement of court orders, by appropriate applications, to include contempt of court.

Injunctions and interim relief

Applications for urgent and pre-trial injunctive and other relief (to include freezing, asset tracing and preservation orders).

Insurance

Claims for payments under insurance contracts and declaratory relief as to non-liability.

Partnerships, LLPs and joint ventures

Wrongful trading claims, claims for recovery of unlawful distribution and prefectural pay outs, forced dissolution and appointment of receivers and claims for accounts.

Trusts and proprietary claims

Disputes relating to expenses and constructive trusts, acting for trustees, protectors and beneficiaries.

Expertise

At a glance
  • Successfully acting for a director/shareholder in respect of injunctive proceedings arising out of a dispute with a fellow director.
  • Successful claim for repayment of substantial loans to a borrower for gambling in London casinos. Consideration of Gaming Acts, Consumer Credit Act and allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
  • Successful claim in four jurisdictions relating to the misappropriation of assets by a former professional advisor.
  • Injunctions and substantive proceedings over allegations of breach of distributorship agreement and misuse of domain names and websites.
  • House of Lords negligence case re: duty of care and statutory powers. The local authority applied for an order to close the claimants’ nursing home without notice. The claimants subsequently sought damages from the local authority for breach of duty of care ending in an ECHR claim, which settled favourably.
  • Successfully acting for a minority shareholder in an unfair prejudice petition relating to shares and property in the UK and Russia. The case settled for a large seven-figure sum.
  • Partnership dispute between two surgeons and a lay partner.
  • Pursuing and settling substantial complaint of defective goods in engineering context.
  • Successfully acting for shareholder claimants in a double derivative claim involving UK and Hong Kong companies. Seeking injunctions and securing damages.
  • Substantial High Court claims for breach of commercial referral agreement.
  • Substantial High court claims for non-delivery of goods by a supplier and damages for deceit.
  • Negligence claim against solicitors for failure to advise in respect of compulsory purchase orders on the acquisition of a commercial property.
  • Successfully varying an order requiring a wife to disclose her financial affairs and obtaining a freezing order restraining her husband from dealing with specified accounts and mandates, and requiring him to disclose those accounts.

Costs

Debt recovery costs information and transparency

Please view the following webpage for a full description of our costs and charges in accordance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Transparency Rules 2018.

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