When legal disputes arise, they typically involve exposure to multiple risk factors, which can have a substantial impact on the wellbeing of individuals and businesses alike. For that reason, litigation and dispute resolution has always been at the heart of what we do.
We are equally comfortable acting for corporates and individuals and understand the differing priorities and service requirements of each. Our clients trust us to handle the most sensitive issues with discretion and expertise.
We work collectively with contentious lawyers and teams across the firm to provide a joined-up and comprehensive service to our clients. This includes working very closely with the firm’s dedicated reputation protection, defamation and privacy team which specialises in handling both corporate and personal issues, and with the firm’s contentious trusts and asset-tracing team.
Our team includes specialists in fraud, contentious private wealth, investigations and technology disputes, including data and cyber breaches. 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.
Where necessary, we will waste no time in taking decisive legal action, to protect our clients’ legal rights, interests, assets and information via litigation. But different circumstances call for different strategies, and our approach is always grounded in the commercial and other objectives of our clients.
We have 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.
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 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.
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.
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