Director, Shareholder and Partnership Disputes

Shareholder and partnership disputes, especially in small businesses, can have far reaching consequences beyond the business arena.  If the parties are family members, such disputes will ripple through personal relationships and may well have long lasting effects on the remainder of the family.  Our specialist team of dispute resolution lawyers are experts at giving straight forward and correct advice quickly is essential in keeping the area of conflict to a minimum and resolving it speedily.

Such disputes may well need a practical or novel approach.  In one recent case where our dispute resolution solicitors acted, the partners in a family business each wanted to buy out the other but could not agree on how to achieve this.  The court ordered the parties to engage in a private auction whereby the winning bidder acquired the interests of the others.

Our dispute resolution lawyers provide advice to and represent shareholders and partners in:

• minority shareholder claims
• boardroom disputes
• partnership disputes
• acting for one of two shareholder/directors, each with 50% of the capital, on a dispute concerning the company's governance
• representing a partner in a claim against his former partners following the dissolution of the partnership
• representing an off-shore company who had been granted warrants in a quoted UK company whose board subsequently purported to cancel the warrant entitlement

Other cases:

• Acting for one of two shareholder/directors, each with 50 percent of the capital, on a dispute concerning the company's governance
• Representing a partner in a claim against his former partners following the dissolution of the partnership
• Representing an off-shore company who had been granted warrants in a quoted UK company whose board subsequently purported to cancel the warrant entitlement

For more information, or to speak to our dispute resolution lawyers, please Gerard Cukier