Current Matters

 

The firm’s current and recently concluded cases include:

• Acting for the former chairman and major shareholder of Queen’s Park Rangers football club in a multi-million pound dispute arising out of the takeover of the club by Flavio Briatore

 

• Acting in connection with an ongoing £1 billion-plus joint venture dispute in the Chancery Division

• Successfully defending four individuals in proceedings brought by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986

 

• Acting for the former shareholders and undated bondholders of Bradford & Bingley Plc in connection with potential claims arising out of the nationalisation of the bank in 2008
• Acting on behalf of an individual concerning a substantial dispute arising from a private equity venture

 

• Acting in connection with a claim between two Russian oligarchs in ongoing Commercial Court proceedings in which damages in excess of $1 billion are sought

• Advising a hedge fund in relation to potential claims arising out of a series of under-performing investments

 

• Acting on behalf of Gazprom in an LCIA arbitration

 

• Advising a number of shareholders in relation to potential claims arising out of the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley

 

• Acting on behalf of a boutique investment bank in relation to a dispute with a number of investors

 

• Acting for a US corporation in defamation proceedings against a UK website provider

 

• Acting for a company seeking to rectify a sale agreement relating to the purchase of a substantial commercial building in London

 

• Acting for two companies seeking compensation from the London Development Agency following the making of a compulsory purchase order

 

• Acting for a company in a professional negligence claim against a London law firm arising out of an aborted float on the Alternative Investment Market

 

• Acting for a beneficiary under a substantial Jersey Trust in proceedings against the corporate trustee

• Acting for a company in proceedings against a UK clearing bank for breaches of various loan agreements