We help clients avoid disputes through careful drafting and preventive mechanisms, and offer seamless, strategic, commercially-focused advocacy across shareholder, director, insolvency, governance, and transactional conflicts using tailored resolution methods.
- Careful drafting to help clients avoid future disputes
- Strategic, commercially-focused advocacy across the full lifecycle of disputes
- Interdisciplinary approach blending litigation with corporate advisory.
Dispute Resolution Overview
Our prime aim is to help clients avoid future disputes through careful drafting of shareholders’ agreements, corporate documents, restructuring plans and transaction documentation that anticipate potential conflict. We implement dispute‑avoidance mechanisms, such as mandatory negotiation, mediation, arbitration clauses, deadlock-breaking provisions, and valuation formulas. Early engagement is often the most cost-effective path.
- Implementation of dispute-avoidance mechanisms
- Expertise in shareholder, director, and insolvency-related litigation
- Robust advocacy in arbitration
- Acting as lead counsel in high-stakes negotiations and mediations
- Conducting urgent litigation
In Brief
Even the most carefully structured transactions and well-run businesses can encounter disputes, especially where corporate governance, shareholder interests, insolvency, and restructuring intersect.
- Transactions
- Governance
- Insolvency
- Shareholders
Practice Pillars
We provide seamless, strategic, and commercially‑focused advocacy across the full lifecycle of a client’s legal issue. These areas frequently overlap -shareholder friction may trigger insolvency proceedings, while director conduct could spur derivative or creditor claims. Our approach is interdisciplinary, blending litigation with corporate advisory. We expertly handle disputes tied to our advisory, transactional and insolvency work, including:
Shareholder and partnership disputes
From minority‑majority deadlocks to forced buy‑outs, freeze‑outs, valuation conflicts, fraud or breach of fiduciary duty.
Director‑related litigation
Derivative actions, claims for mismanagement, breaches of duty or abuse of director powers.
Insolvency‑related challenges
Defending or prosecuting claims in liquidation, fraud or asset recovery, challenging transactions, or navigating creditor rights in restructurings.
Transaction misrepresentation and post‑completion claims
in cross‑border M&A, investment or financing transactions, or complex restructurings.
Governance and contractual disputes
involving deadlock, misapplication of governance provisions and other intra‑corporate conflicts.
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When disputes emerge, we assist with a spectrum of resolution methods:
Negotiation & Mediation
We facilitate productive discussions with opposing parties, from shareholders or directors to creditors and insolvency practitioners.
Acting as lead counsel in mediation proceedings, we drive toward settlement terms that safeguard value, control, and relationships, even in high‑stakes, emotional situations.
We prepare clients thoroughly for each stage, defining objectives, pressure points, and non-negotiables, while remaining adaptable in real-time, and engage in multi-party negotiations, including those involving liquidators, secured creditors, and regulatory authorities, where time pressure and reputational risk are paramount.
Our goal is not just resolution, but durable outcomes that protect business continuity and long-term interests.
Arbitration & Expert Determination
Arbitration often offers advantages such as confidentiality, procedural flexibility, and enforceability of awards across jurisdictions, making it ideal for disputes involving sensitive company matters, private equity investments, or international joint ventures.
Where arbitration is preferred, especially in shareholder disputes or cross‑border cases, we advocate robustly before arbitrators, enforcing or challenging interim measures as needed.
We handle complex arbitral processes governed by institutional rules, as well as ad hoc proceedings tailored to specific commercial relationships.
Our lawyers are adept at securing interim relief, including asset preservation orders, emergency arbitrator applications, and anti-suit injunctions, when speed and precision are essential.
We regularly coordinate with foreign counsel in multi-jurisdictional disputes to ensure a cohesive, globally aligned strategy from filing to final award enforcement.
Litigation
We conduct high‑stakes formal litigation typically related to our other core services: corporate disputes, shareholder oppression or derivative actions, wrongful trading and director liability in insolvency, breach of contract claims, and claims against liquidators or creditors.
We act in urgent situations, in applications for freezing orders, prohibitory injunctions, to prevent dissipation of assets or enforce boardroom rights.
In the insolvency context, we act for creditors, insolvency practitioners, and stakeholders seeking to recover misappropriated assets, unwind unfair transactions, or pursue directors for breaches of duty.
We navigate procedural complexities with precision and coordinate multi-jurisdictional enforcement and discovery efforts, at every step, combining legal precision with commercial realism to advance our clients’ goals.
Have a question or need legal guidance? Our team is here to help.