Our Sectors
Professional
Negligence
Corporate &
Commercial
Property, Land
& Real Estate
Insurance
Construction &
Engineering
Banking &
Financial
Insolvency/
Bankruptcy
Employment
We list below some examples of typical issues in disputes in which we have good experience. If your issue is not listed we may still have experience of it. Please contact us and we will let you know promptly whether we do.
Professional Negligence
Solicitors
Typical issues:
- Conduct of litigation
- Limitation
- Risk analysis
- Property/land acquisition/disposal
- Loan agreements
- Corporate and commercial
- Shareholder issues
- B2B sales
- Insolvency/bankruptcy
- Banking
- Development finance
- Personal Injury
- Matrimonial
Surveyors
Typical issues:
- Valuation (commercial and residential)
- Building Surveys
- Estate Management
- Lenders/Borrowers
- Mortgage Finance
- Legal Charges
- Agency
- Development
- Retail/Office/Industrial
- Acquisition/Disposal
- Rent Review/Lease Renewal
- Landlord and Tenant
- Authorised Guarantee Agreements
- Leasehold Enfranchisement
- Dilapidations
- Service charges
Financial Advisors
Typical issues:
- Mis-selling
- Investment management
- Pensions
- Mortgages
- Corporation Tax
- Tax avoidance schemes
- Inheritance Tax
- Capital Gains Tax
Accountants
Typical issues:
- Audit
- Tax
- Accounts
- Valuation
- Misrepresentation.
Brokers
Typical issues:
- Non-disclosure
- Policy Breach
- Aggregation
- Exclusion Clauses
Architects, Engineers, Project Managers
Typical issues:
- JCT contracts
- ICE contracts
- Feasibility
- Procurement
- Design
- Certification
- Programming
- Workmanship
- Delay analysis/critical path
- Performance Bonds
- Over/underpayment
- Termination
- Consequential loss.
Corporate and Commercial
Typical issues:
- Asset sales
- Directors
- Shareholder Agreements
- Breach of contract
- Suppliers
- Termination
- Loss of profit
Property, Land and Real Estate
Typical issues:
- Assignment
- Authorised Guarantee Agreements
- Licences
- Termination
- Repossession
- Development finance
- Guarantors
- Equity release
- Lenders/Borrowers
- Right to buy
- Legal Charges
- Off-plan Purchases
- Leasehold Enfranchisement
- Service charges
- Rent Review/Lease Renewal
Insurance
Typical issues:
- Avoidance
- Coverage
- Aggregation
- Breach of Warranty
- Non-disclosure
- Notification
- Condition Precedents
- Business Interruption
- Exclusion Clauses
- Run-off Cover
Construction and Engineering
Typical issues:
- PFI
- JCT Contracts
- ICE Contracts
- Feasibility
- Procurement
- Design
- Programming
- Workmanship
- Delay
- Certification
- Bonds
- Warranties
- Termination
Banking and Financial Services
Typical issues:
- Mis-selling
- Tax
- Commission
- Loans
- FSMA
Insolvency / Bankruptcy
Typical issues:
- Liquidation
- Administration
- Pre-pack Administration
- CVAs
- CVLs
- IVAs
- Directors
- Trustees
- Creditors
- Preferences
- Transactions at Undervalue
- Charges
Employment
Typical issues:
- Dismissal
- Termination
- TUPE
- Restrictive covenants
- Compromise Agreements
- Redundancy
- Commission
- Consultancy Agreements