Our highly experienced team are here to help, whenever contentious issues arise. From pre-action advice and ‘litigation avoidance’, to interim injunctions, trial litigation, and appeals, our team have the expertise to support you in navigating the most challenging of issues.
In addition to litigation, we have extensive alternative dispute resolution capabilities, with experience in arbitration, expert determination, and, of course, mediation.
We are equally adept in acting for corporates or individuals. On the corporate side, our clients include both ‘household names’ in the form of multinational corporations and major public companies, and also founder-led private companies of all sizes. The individuals we act for often have high media profiles and include inspirational entrepreneurs, trustees and beneficiaries, established families, and international private family offices.
Many of our clients are drawn from sectors for which the firm is best-known – including media, technology and entertainment, fashion and retail, hospitality and leisure, and private wealth. We also routinely act for clients outside of these sectors. For instance, we have for many years represented clients operating in financial services and private investment, in a variety of complex commercial and company law disputes.
In all cases, we work on a seamless cross-departmental basis in order to ensure that our response to any issue is holistic, joined-up, and fully leverages the firm’s deep, industry-specific knowledge and experience.
We provide a partner-led service focused on technical expertise and a deep understanding of our clients’ needs. Our lawyers are pragmatic, with many years’ experience in resolving both commercial and personal disputes, for whom strategic and tactical awareness are at the heart of their advice.
Our team includes specialists in fraud, contentious private wealth, investigations and technology disputes. Our technology disputes capability includes traditional IT disputes, disputes involving emerging technologies, procurement challenges, cyber frauds and the management and resetting of distressed digital transformation projects.
Our team has strong relationships with leading barristers, experts, PR advisors and leading lawyers in all major jurisdictions overseas. Testament to this, we often take on a strategic, global coordination role for clients involved in complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes.
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Notable matters
We acted for an AI technology provider based in the US in a London-based ICC arbitration commenced by a former customer, involving alleged misappropriation of technology and claims of breach of contract, fraud, conspiracy, copyright infringement and breach of confidence.
We advised early-stage investor, Fabric Ventures Group, in relation to claims arising out of the implosion of Celsius Network Limited, a crypto platform and mining business which was the subject of well-publicised allegations of misconduct.
We acted for the live entertainment giant Live Nation in a test case brought by PRS for Music in the High Court, concerning royalties payable at concerts and festivals in the UK, under Tariff LP.
We successfully resisted, on behalf of the majority shareholders of Sargent-Disc, a software company in the film and television sector, an application for urgent interim relief brought by US software giant, Entertainment Partners, seeking to prevent the sale of shares in the company. We also represented the shareholders in associated unfair prejudice petition proceedings.
We advised Tutreke & Ors, the majority shareholders of video games publisher ZAUM UK, as respondents to a petition presented by its minority shareholders for the company to be wound up on the just and equitable ground. The basis for the claim is an allegation that the company’s substratum had been lost, based on a disputed interpretation of a shareholders agreement.
We coordinated global advice and litigation in various jurisdictions including Cayman, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and England on behalf of a UNHW family from the Middle East.
We successfully appealed, in the Court of Appeal, an $18 million Commercial Court judgment based on a breach of contract claim, acting for a UHNW Saudi.
We represented a leading ‘prime of prime’ multi asset brokerage, iSAM Securities (formerly IS Prime) in complex, high-value Commercial Court proceedings and other High Court proceedings. In the same case, we also assisted our client by playing a global coordination role in respect of multiple satellite proceedings in various US jurisdictions.
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