Corporate, Commercial and Contractual Disputes


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 Acted for English company in pursuit of breach of warranty/fraudulent misrepresentation claims of in excess of £10 million arising out of the acquisition of a business. The case involved complex issues of accounting and quantum.
   
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 Acted for the vendors defending a claim of £5 million for breach of warranty brought under a share purchase agreement.
   
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 Acted for Indian conglomerate in defence of proceedings brought under guarantees for approximately US$30 million. Case involved issues of foreign law, and was successfully compromised during the course of a ten day Commercial Court trial.
   
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 Acted for a major Swiss bank in the largest of the civil actions which arose out of the collapse of the Robert Maxwell business empire. In one of the longest trials in English legal history and twice in the Court of Appeal our client successfully resisted a claim for the return of shares worth US$35 million which had been wrongfully pledged to the bank by a subsidiary of Maxwell Communications Corporation. The case settled important issues of English and New York law as to the taking of shares as security and the standard of notice which applies to bankers when taking security generally.
   
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 Acted for international supplier in negotiations and settlements of various complex multi-party disputes arising out of supply agreements and guarantees governed by different systems of law.
   
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 Acted for Danish supplier in dispute with Korean licensee over the supplier’s right to terminate a 10 year license agreement generating turnover in excess of US$50 million per annum. The case was successfully resolved by negotiation after arbitration proceedings in the UK and Court proceedings in Korea.
   
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 Acted for Italian aluminium manufacturer in respect of claims for US$40 million arising out of trading on the LME, and involving proceedings in Italy, Switzerland, the US and the UK, and complex issues of accounting.
   
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 Acted for Norwegian conglomerate in connection with the termination of a 10 year tolling agreement for the supply of alumina. The case was successfully settled after negotiation.
   
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 Advised Taiwanese insurer faced with claims in excess of US$50 million following condenser failures in a Vietnamese power station.
   
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 Acted for UK company in defence of claims for approximately US$4 million arising out of the alleged failure of a motor/heat exchanger which they had supplied to a Costa Rican rubber factory. The case involved two sets of Part 20 proceedings, accounting and other expert evidence, and was successfully resolved by mediation shortly before a three week trial.
   
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 Acted for a UK plc in London arbitration proceedings pursuing a claim for £3 million damages arising out of the early termination of a five year distribution agreement, which was settled just before trial. Case involved an application for a mandatory interlocutory injunction.
   
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Acted for English subsidiary of a major German conglomerate in successful pursuit of claims for £1 million arising out of the sale of one of their UK businesses.

   
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Acted for Scandinavian bank in pursuit of claims for US$3 million secured by mortgages on property in England and personal guarantees. Obtained freezing injunction and recovered claims in full.
   
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Acted for English company in pursuing claims in excess of £1 million arising out of a business transfer agreement. The case involved complex issues of accounting and settled successfully shortly before trial.
   
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Successful defence of claims for Danish manufacturer involved in product liability claims in Greece and substantial pecuniary claims in the UK.
   
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Acted for UK plc in pursuing claims for connection charges payable under the contractual framework resulting from the privatisation of the electricity industry.

   
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Acted for the Chairman of a Coca Cola Championship football club in a shareholders’ dispute arising out of an attempted boardroom coup.

   
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Acted for a Japanese conglomerate in a dispute of approximately US$50 million arising out of a nine year agreement for the supply of seamless chrome pipes.

   
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Acted for a Japanese conglomerate in a dispute of approximately €2 million arising out of an agreement for the supply of steel.

   
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Acted for a Japanese record company in a dispute arising out of the termination of contracts with recording artists.

   
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Acted for a national airline in a dispute with a Czech aircraft manufacturer in a dispute arising out the purported termination of a joint venture agreement.

   
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Acted for an Irish plc in a claim for unjust enrichment against a major UK bank. The claim was successfully resolved by negotiation. <

   
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Acted for a consortium of 11 residential and nursing care home owners in a dispute with a local authority relating to the charges payable for the care services. A settlement was reached following a successful application for Summary Judgment.

   
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Acted for a consortium of 6 residential care home owners in a dispute with a local authority concerning breaches by the local authority of the contracts for the provision of care home owners. A successful result was achieved prior to the issue of legal proceedings.

   
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Acted for a local authority pursuing claims of £4 million concerning contracts for the provision of care to patients resettled from long stay hospitals to nursing homes.

   
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Acted for a major financial services institution in a multi-million pound claim for the misuse of confidential information and the poaching of staff by another major financial services institution. Case involved a successful application for an interim injunction.