Business disputes and commercial dispute resolution

Efficient and cost effective legal advice

As frustrating as they can be, you may find yourself at some point in an unavoidable dispute with a business partner, a supplier, a creditor, or with your business colleagues or staff. Fortune Law’s commercial dispute resolution solicitors move fast to provide efficient and cost effective legal advice to bring a resolution to your dispute.

Solving your business disputes

Business or commercial disputes we regularly help clients with include:

  • Founder disputes – Partnership disputes, director and shareholder exit disputes.
  • Intellectual property disputes – Copyrights, Patents, Intellectual Property and Trademarks.
  • Commercial disputes – Distribution and franchise disagreements, various issues arising from breach of contract, advice on the legal position in the absence of contracts.
  • Employment disputes – for example breach of employment contracts. Find out how we can help with employment issues in employment law or useful articles including this one on “Dismissing an employee”.

How we’ve helped our clients with shareholder and other business disputes

Examples of specific business disputes where our advice helped clients with dispute resolution include:

  • Termination of IT software development and services contracts and recovery of outstanding fees in excess of €1million.
  • Dispute between exiting director/shareholder of a management consultancy and the other directors/shareholders in relation to alleged breach of fiduciary duties (by solicitation of clients prior to exit) and the division of clients and future profits.
  • Multi-million shareholder dispute involving family members and various assets and claims in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Founder dispute after one co-founder refused to continue working for the business but there was no shareholder’s agreement dealing with transfer of shares or restrictive covenants and no service agreement requiring a time commitment to the business.
  • Shareholder dispute after decision making conflicts forced one founder away from the business but there was no mechanism to obtain financial information relating to the business or any agreed exit terms.
  • A shareholder dispute where a shareholder lost total control of the business as the appropriate forms were never filed at Companies House recognising the shareholders shares in the company and there were no other contracts in place.
  • A shareholder dispute where a director was removed from the board without consent and shares transferred to a co-shareholder without consent – the filings simply being made at Companies House by the remaining director/shareholder.
  • Issue of claim for unpaid fees (circa £80,000 including interest and costs) and subsequent settlement.
  • Pre-litigation settlement of claim in restitution for a £30,000 refund paid twice in error by our client to its own client.
  • High court injunction brought ex parte against our client for breach of restrictive covenants.
  • Freezing order placed on our client’s assets amidst a dispute over theft of intellectual property.
  • Pre-litigation settlement of claim for non-payment of invoices and breach of consultancy agreement between our client and a multinational energy provider.

 

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We can help with your commercial law disputes

Fortune Law are commercial dispute resolution solicitors, based in the heart of central London.
Speak to a specialist about your business dispute. We can help.

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