Dispute Resolution

Commercial Litigation

Our experienced team takes a pro-active role in understanding a client's case and ultimate goals.

We advise on and provide representation in respect of a wide range of disputes arising out all types of corporate and commercial activity, including:

• mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
• agency, distribution and franchise agreements
• trade finance
• sale of goods and services
• contractual disputes and warranty claims
• economic torts
• claims alleging conspiracy or unlawful interference with business.

Typical Cases

• Acting successfully for a Defendant who was instructed as the agent to a company which had commissioned the building of several ships to renegotiate the shipbuilding contracts. When the negotiations broke down the shipbuilders brought a claim against our client for conspiracy and unlawful interference with contract.
• Acting for a Defendant against whom a claim had been brought in fraudulent misrepresentation following the sale of shares from one director to another director and then onto our client.
• Acting for a Claimant in a dispute arising out of the alteration of the beneficial interests in a trust, which was used to operate a company in which the Claimant previously had a majority interest.
• Acting in a claim for misrepresentation arising out of the sale of a business to another company, which business did not flourish as anticipated.
• Successfully resisting an attempt by a publicly quoted trust fund to rectify a management warrants agreement following the termination of the management contract.