About
Provided by Paris Smith LLP
KEY COMMERCIAL DISPUTE SERVICES
We can advise on various types of commercial disputes including:
- commercial contractual disputes including insurance disputes;
- director, shareholder or partnership conflicts;
- debt collection;
- intellectual property infringements;
- construction and property disputes;
- professional negligence;
- insolvency issues; and
- judicial review.
KEEPING YOU OUT OF COURT
Mediation is a very successful alternative to court litigation in resolving disputes. It offers a forum in which an accredited mediator – who is of course also a neutral party – acts as a facilitator in order to help parties resolve their differences.
Arbitration might also be an option for you. Arbitration is where an independent arbitrator is appointed by either the parties involved in the dispute or a third party. Decisions on the merits of the dispute by an arbitrator are usually final and not subject to appeal.
Case studies:
- Making a claim for a director and 50% shareholder against her business partner and ex husband for defrauding the company and HMRC by falsely claiming £hundreds of thousands of expenses.
- Defending a director of a failed business against a Director’s Disqualification claim.
- Pursuing one of four directors of an investment company for wrongly extracting the proceeds of sale of a property for her own personal benefit.
- Seeking the liquidator’s consent via court proceedings to use a “prohibited name” of the previous business in a new copyright and designs.
