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Business and Commercial Disputes

Business and Commercial Disputes

We resolve disputes with a focus on protecting your business, balancing firm representation with pragmatic solutions to safeguard reputation.

TWM has a strong team of experienced litigators with a wide range of expertise in relation to business and commercial disputes involving our clients’ commercial interests in this jurisdiction and abroad.

We cover all types of commercial disputes from personal claims, contractual disputes, misrepresentation actions, shareholder and partnership disputes, freezing injunctions and other interim relief, search orders, group litigation and warranty claims through to jurisdictional challenges. We are experienced at resolving disputes through High Court or County Court litigation or through arbitration or expert determination and always have strong commercial focus on resolving disputes early via the use of alternative dispute resolution such as mediation.

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Breach of contract and contractual disputes – for example refusal to perform contractual obligations, defective performance, failure to pay for a service or delay in the provision of services or work
  • Corporate management and corporate control disputes
  • Business dissolution and organisational disputes
  • Shareholder and partnership disputes
  • Employment disputes
  • Debt collection actions
  • Misrepresented actions
  • Freezing injunctions
  • Search orders
  • Warranty claims
  • Jurisdictional challenges.

    Our Dispute Resolution team

    As part of a full service firm, our Dispute Resolution team is able to call upon the expertise of their corporate, property, and tax lawyer colleagues.

    The team works closely with a number of selected Barristers, so that when circumstances require it, there is immediate access to additional expertise and resources. We also enjoy close links with accountants and other trusted experts, whose expertise we can call upon as required.

    Here’s why you should choose our team

    We have a range of lawyers at different seniorities in the team to enable us to match the right level of lawyer to the complexity and value of the matter.

    Our goal is to establish long-term and meaningful relationships with our clients.

    We work closely with other specialist teams at the firm, such as the Business Law and Property teams, to ensure a range of specialisms are available to contribute to the resolution of disputes where appropriate.

    We have a proven and long-standing reputation for delivering outstanding services and expertise.

    We offer high quality advice at great value.

    Our team of specialist dispute lawyers are consistently recognised in the legal directories (Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners) as being one of the leading firms in the South and South East for commercial disputes of all kinds.

    FAQs

    Below are some questions that we are frequently asked by clients who require advice on Business and Commercial Disputes Law.

    A commercial dispute is any type of conflict relating to business. The range of work covered is extremely broad and can cover issues, such as ownership, management, breaches of contract and fraud, to name only a few examples.

    We are able to deal with most, if not all, types of commercial dispute – though we may be restricted from acting by, for example, issues of proportionality or conflicts of interest.

    We advise on the law as it applies in England or Wales and therefore disputes within that jurisdiction. That mainly involves businesses and contracts formed in the UK, but we often act for clients based overseas with disputes in the UK, or in disputes which span different jurisdictions. We also work with lawyers in other jurisdictions, if needed.

    The answer to this will depend on your specific situation, including the terms of any agreement relating to your dispute. The rules and procedures regarding costs are complex and we will explain them to you in more detail as your dispute progresses.

    Each dispute is different and the answer to this depends on the individual circumstances. However, one of our first actions when acting for you would be to determine whether it is proportionate to procced and how best to do that.

    Contact the team

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    What our clients say...

    "Simon Brew is hugely experienced and a calm fount of good sense."

    The Legal 500 - 2027

    "I have dealt with only one partner on one single, though rather complex, case. I was impressed by his patience, clarity of explanation, and particularly by his research into relevant precedents. He demonstrated a sympathetic understanding of financial constraints. It has altogether been a pleasure to work with Simon Brew."

    The Legal 500 - 2027

    "David Hitchcock has great tactical nous."

    The Legal 500 - 2027

    "David Hitchcock was very good. Approachable and always took my calls or got back to me the same day."

    The Legal 500 - 2027

    "The team was experienced with my subject and provided concise and clear advice."

    The Legal 500 - 2027

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