Litigation is always the final resort and we make every effort to resolve issues through alternative pre-litigation methods of dispute resolution before moving to more aggressive formal proceedings. Our focus is on achieving commercial solutions by giving practical and effective advice.
Client understanding and support is paramount. We are strongly committed to forging close working relationships with our clients and to delivering a service that doesn't just quote the law, but that delivers added value now and for the future.
Our fee structures are flexible and depend on the complexity and specific legal needs of each client.
Areas of expertise
The team has considerable experience in:
- Business and commercial banking issues
- Enforcement strategies, particularly the enforcement of corporate and personal guarantees and security realisation with enforcement of charges over residential and commercial properties, life policies, deposits, shares and livestock comprising the mainstay of the litigation work. An example of regular defended work includes disputes over matters such as interest rates, undue influence, overriding interests and fraud.
- Conduct of LPA receiverships
- Recovery of unsecured facilities and shortfalls
- Enforcement of corporate and personal guarantees
- Professional negligence claims
- Fraud investigations in the context of mortgages, discounting facilities and insolvencies, including litigation to adjust fraudulent transactions and recover assets that have been wrongly removed
- Actions to adjust fraudulent transactions and actions against delinquent directors
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