Litigation
UK Guide 2025 : Midlands
Band 2
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Provided by Shoosmiths LLP
Our dispute resolution and litigation lawyers are adept at mitigating risk and meeting the rapidly evolving litigation challenges of business today
At a time when businesses continue to face complex geopolitical, environmental and technological challenges, many rightly anticipate increasing caseloads alongside escalating litigation costs.
By bringing together our litigation experts from areas including insolvency, tax, employment, IP, regulatory, real estate and commercial litigation we provide holistic, strategic and pragmatic advice to help you meet these complex challenges. We employ sector and practice specialists with the collective market knowledge to be able to anticipate and minimise risk and, avoid disputes arising.
Where disputes do arise, we work with our clients to provide strategic and specialist guidance to resolve them swiftly on favourable commercial terms or put them in the best possible position to win if contested.
Our litigation teams work with some of the world’s most exciting and rapidly growing businesses, particularly in areas including financial services disputes and investigations, technology, automotive and real estate disputes.
Chambers Review
Shoosmiths represents clients across the energy, banking and retail sectors. The Birmingham team's activity covers fraud claims, asset recovery, contractual cases, shareholder litigation and injunction proceedings.
Work Highlights
- Shoosmiths acted for Simply Asset Finance on the recovery of multiple assets funded by way of a series of leasing agreements, and related losses.
Strengths
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"Theteam are very responsive and engaged. I have confidence in their ability to read the situation tactically."
"A well-rounded team that complement each other well and are always around to speak to."
"They offer a London level of sophistication at regional prices."
"Theteam are very responsive and engaged. I have confidence in their ability to read the situation tactically."
"A well-rounded team that complement each other well and are always around to speak to."
"They offer a London level of sophistication at regional prices."
Notable Practitioners
Alex Bishop offers expertise in commercial disputes concerning a broad range of matters including breaches of contract. She is also head of the national litigation practice at Shoosmiths.
"Alex Bishop is tactically very bright, easy to work with and an excellent litigator."
"Alex is hugely impressive. She’s enormously hard-working and driven, is always focused on getting the client the best possible result, and will leave no stone unturned to that end."
"Alex knows how to exploit the other side's weaknesses."
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Clients
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Ecolab Limited
Ecolab Limited
Electrolux
Simply Asset Finance
The Student Energy Group Ltd