Litigation
UK Guide 2025 : North West
Band 4
About
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 has a litigation team offering expertise in shareholder and contractual disputes, as well as contentious matters involving employment and insurance issues. The firm also provides clients with associated advice on crisis and reputation management.
Work Highlights
- Shoosmiths was instructed by a major structural warranty insurer in the defence of aHigh Court claim for c.£17 million relating to defective cladding and fire stopping on two tower blocks.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Shoosmiths is efficient, cost-effective and on top of the details."
"The team is able to reduce complex issues to manageable commercial propositions and to provide excellent responses to client priorities."
"I have worked with Shoosmiths on cases that need a good commercial approach and a responsive team, and they have the commerciality and a good sense of what the client needs."
"Shoosmiths is efficient, cost-effective and on top of the details."
"The team is able to reduce complex issues to manageable commercial propositions and to provide excellent responses to client priorities."
"I have worked with Shoosmiths on cases that need a good commercial approach and a responsive team, and they have the commerciality and a good sense of what the client needs."
Notable Practitioners
Sylwena Sempa is a principal associate on the commercial litigation team at Shoosmiths, based in Manchester. She is noted for her experience, ranging from commercial cases, pensions, phone hacking and employment disputes.
"Sylwena Sempa is diligent, a good communicator, has a good manner with clients and overall, impressive."
Ranked Lawyers at
Shoosmiths LLP
North West
Clients
Provided by Shoosmiths LLP
Continuum Financial Services LLP
Domain Transport Limited
French Connection
Hoover Limited
MegaGroup BV
Pareto Financial Services Limited
ProAmpac Group
Virgin Media O2