Dispute Resolution

KBH has experienced and globally ranked lawyers who advise on litigation, arbitration and mediation. KBH has played key role in development of the DIFC as a favourable jurisdiction for dispute resolution, helped to develop the law, set important precedents and provided access to justice.

KBH advises on:

• Contractual and commercial disputes
• Economic offences
• Employment matters
• Financial services
• Insolvency
• Property dispute
• Reputation management
• Shareholder disputes

KBH was the first firm to:

• Fund a case entirely with litigation funding, successfully pursued a financial mis-selling case
  
• Bring a claim against a bank outside the jurisdiction and set a precedent widening jurisdiction
  
• Obtain a group litigation order
  
• Set precedent as to what amounts to “possession and occupation” in real estate industry
• Conduct proceedings in the UK out of DIFC office
• Acting for the Liquidator in the first ever claim of Unfair Prejudice by Swiss minority shareholders in the DIFC Courts
• Disputes involving the rights of audience before the DIFC Court of an individual not registered as a practitioner with the Court, but who holds a Power of Attorney to represent the Claimants
• Acting for the Claimant Investors in the first proceedings of 2011 brought in the DIFC Court against a prominent Dubai property developer. The case has a novel jurisdictional aspect in that the property is located within the geographic boundaries of the DIFC but the Agreement refers to the jurisdiction of the “Courts of Dubai” (not DIFC)