Chambers Review
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Commercial and Corporate Litigation - UK
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
The firm provides its undivided attention to the matter at hand. The team is able to quickly understand the complicated details giving rise to the litigation and therefore advise very effectively.
Macfarlanes' strengths are its precision, clarity and promptness. The firm promptly identifies optimal solutions for the client, and the litigation team checks the important box for responsiveness.
Macfarlanes excels at coordinating its advice on complex matters of law, to multiple parties who are not always aligned, in different time zones.
Marcfarlanes is a superb blue-chip operating platform. The firm is knowledgeable, commercially-focused, pragmatic and has great strength in depth down to associate level.
Macfarlanes has the technical skills, detailed partner involvement and experience to deal with complex work. The firm's good understanding of key issues means its advice is commercial and pragmatic.
Work Highlights
Macfarlanes successfully applied to the UK Supreme Court for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s November 2023 judgment regarding substantial collective proceedings on behalf of NatWest.
Notable practitioners
Iain is an excellent advisor with bags of gravitas.
Lois Horne heads the firm's litigation practice and focuses on advising clients on complex cross-border corporate and commercial matters, including post-M&A disputes, warranty and indemnity claims, and shareholder disputes. She has expertise assisting clients in sectors including energy, retail and private equity, among others.
Lois is bright, clever, hardworking.
Matthew McCahearty advises clients on commercial disputes in heavily regulated industries. He has expertise in large group action defense work and cross-border disputes.
Matt is a pleasure to work with!
Matthew McCahearty is a truly excellent advisor.
Matthew is incisive and thoughtful about how to deal with sensitive issues without taking the foot off the pedal. He is very good at drawing the context in to ensure his advice lands correctly.
Christopher Charlton advises international clients on a variety of contentious matters. He has a growing reputation for handling complex litigation relating to politically sensitive topics.
Christopher Charlton is a superstar in the making.
Chris is a joy to work with. He is a very savvy, straight to the point, phenomenally bright guy. He shows great commercial judgement and anticipation of what courts want.