Business

Company and Partnership Agreement and Dispute Team

Our specialist barristers bring strong forensic skills to resolving director and partner disputes on behalf of businesses and individuals.

We undertake a variety of actions, up to and including complex major claims.

Securing assets sometimes requires an urgent response and we have an out-of-hours helpline that is monitored 24 hours a day. 

As well as resolving disputes, we help many clients avoid them by advising on and drafting legal documents such as terms of partnership/LLP, share sale agreements and reductions in capital.

Our specialisms include:-

• Dissolution disputes
• Forensic partnership accountancy and asset tracing
• Asset recovery from defaulting directors / partners
• Shae sale disputes
• Directors’ duties and disqualification
• Minority shareholder actions
• Winding up petitions
• Advice and drafting in non-contentious matters such as:
• terms of partnership / LLP
• company meetings and resolutions
• share sale agreements
• reductions in capital
• schemes of arrangement

Here are some examples of our recent work:

• Begum v Hossain [2015] EWCA Civ 717 - Christopher Mann for the appellant – successful appeal to the Court of Appeal on the basis that an expert valuer of shares materially departed from his mandate.
• Sethi v Patel & Scitec Group Ltd [2012] (Ch) – Gabriel Buttimore – A valuation trial following finding of unfair prejudice in 2010 establishing share buy-out value of the company of £900,000 including issues of commercial fraud.