Commercial litigation solicitors

Our commercial litigators understand the challenges businesses face and the need to take a bespoke approach to every engagement.  Whether you are looking for strategic advice to manage commercial arrangements, to issue or defend a claim or wish to explore alternative ways to resolve a dispute, our litigators will work with you to get to the heart of what’s important and support your commercial priorities to help you achieve your desired outcome.

We have a large team of skilled litigators across our national offices who are experienced at dealing with complex, strategically important and high value disputes.  Our lawyers have expertise in:

• Shareholder and corporate disputes
• Contract disputes
• Intellectual property and data protection disputes
• Defamation and reputation management
• Banking and financial disputes
• IT disputes
• International Disputes: Arbitration and Cross Border
• Civil Fraud
• Disputed Wills, Trusts and Estates

Our teams are recognised in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners with many of our lawyers recognised as Leading Individuals.

Our commercial litigation experience

Recent case studies include:

• Advising an international company on the interpretation of contractual termination and notice provisions with a key customer and enforcement of its right to terminate to secure payment of a substantial outstanding sums from its customer.
• Advising a client on their majority shareholding in an international supply company, where there were concerns over the actions of the managing director/minority shareholder and alleged breaches of fiduciary duties.
• Acting for the UK’s largest employee-owned provider of social care services defending High Court proceedings brought by a mobile phone provider. The issue at the heart of the case was whether an “administration charge” was onerous and had been fairly and reasonably brought to the defendant’s attention. The court held it had not, and that it was an unenforceable penalty clause.
• Acting for the claimant in 116 Cardamon Limited v McAllister [2019] EWHC 1200 (Com) where (after proceedings were served in Western Australia via WhatsApp) the maximum damages allowable under an SPA were ordered to be paid after it was established that the defendant had breached the warranties it had given to the claimant.
• Acting for two individual clients in a multi-party professional negligence claim against solicitors who had advised on a multi-million pound property refinance deal to develop a stately home, hotel, golf and leisure complex. The claim was issued in the Business & Property Courts in London with a pleaded value of £12m+, and settled prior to a 15 day trial fixed.

How our commercial litigation solicitors can help you

• We consistently receive high praise from our clients demonstrating that we are commercial, collaborative, and strategic. We provide practical, commercial advice from the outset with a focus on dispute avoidance to help clients focus on their business priorities. Where a dispute cannot be avoided we work with you to guide you through the process and manage your time and financial commitments.
• We are experienced in a broad spectrum of commercial litigation disputes and have specialist lawyers across all of our offices who work together ensuring each matter has the right team to achieve the best result that aligns with your objectives. More information about our specialisms can be found on our linked pages.
• We regularly work with funders and have a detailed understanding and experience of funding arrangements, to find pragmatic funding solutions, allowing you to manage litigation costs to suit you. We often share the risk with clients where funding arrangements are in place, offering contingent arrangements. We have developed our own bespoke litigation funding offering which provides third party funding and after the event insurance, subject to your claim meeting certain criteria, allowing funding to be arranged quickly, effectively and on competitive terms.
• We work with third party providers to enable leverage the latest technology allowing us to work efficiently to identify key documents and quickly get to the heart of the issues.
• Depending on the type of dispute and its value, matters are usually Partner-led with a focus on resourcing matters appropriately so that the right person is dealing with your dispute at the right level, at all times. All of our lawyers are responsive and can be contacted directly to discuss your case in a collegiate way, with the benefit of specialist counsel advice where required.

Want to find out more?

If you would like to know more about our services or need advice from one of our commercial litigation lawyers on a potential dispute, contact the team using the details below.