Our commercial disputes team is experienced, proactive, pragmatic, and cost-conscious. We specialise in representing a diverse range of clients, including companies, directors, High-Net-Worth (HNW) individuals, and FCA-registered entities.
Our expertise lies in offering strategic legal support to navigate through intricate disputes where substantial assets are at stake. We specialise in pursuing and defending claims involving high-value contracts, directors’ duties, shareholder relationships, derivative actions, unfair prejudice claims, freezing injunctions, urgent injunctions, civil fraud, tortious disputes, and insolvency.
A substantial portion of our work involves an international dimension, with proceedings spanning jurisdictions worldwide. We are well-equipped to assist in jurisdictional challenges and the application of foreign law.
Throughout the legal process, our focus is on achieving outcomes aligned with your business objectives. Our approach is tough, organised, and collaborative. We will work with you at every stage to try to achieve the best possible negotiated outcome, but we will not hesitate to take your case to trial where necessary – and we will fight for the best possible outcome.
Our experience
- Representing shareholders in a $130 million claim against auditors of a Lebanese bank for failing to identify its use in money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Defending claims brought by liquidators of Bernard Madoff’s US and UK companies in two cases.
- Acting for the defendant in a £95 million civil fraud claim by HMRC, arising from a failed criminal prosecution.
- Representing shareholder claimants in a £38 million fraud claim related to the undervalued sale of a company.
- Successfully concluding the settlement of insolvency claims of £20 million pursued by a liquidator, stemming from VAT assessments, with negotiations spanning over 18 months.