Confident dispute resolution
Our Commercial Dispute Resolution Team acts for a full spectrum of clients, from the smallest of start-up companies to international corporations.
Strategic and commercial
No matter the size of your business, we work with you to provide clear, strategic advice to enable you to prepare for and manage the risks it is facing. In fact, managing risk and ensuring that we have a defined commercial strategy for dealing with your dispute is central to what we do. We also have extensive reputation management experience and take a pragmatic and commercial approach to dispute resolution.
We are experts at resolving disputes without litigation becoming necessary and use negotiation, mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution. However, we also have significant expertise in litigating disputes (either through the courts or through arbitration) when it becomes necessary.
We regularly conduct litigation using non-traditional funding methods such as contingency or fixed fees, volume discounts and success-driven fees. We believe our willingness to consider and act on often complex litigation on a non-traditional funding basis sets us apart from our competitors.
We have considerable experience of working in international jurisdictions or litigating on behalf of or against parties domiciled abroad. Details of our international experience can be found here.
A non-exhaustive list of the types of commercial disputes we handle:
- Contractual disputes
- Shareholder and director disputes
- Professional negligence disputes
- Product liability disputes
- Intellectual property and technology disputes
- Defamation
- Retention of title disputes
- Insolvency
Our recent work
- Successfully defending an English Commercial Court fraud and breach of contract claim asserting the misappropriation of a port facility and other corporate assets in Moldova, alongside parallel proceedings in the Netherlands and Moldova.
- Representing a Claimant private off-shore bank in respect of a multi-million pound mortgage fraud case including contractual and negligence claims. The case ultimately settled at mediation.
- Representing a former Renault F1 engineer in the Spygate II case before the World Motorsports Council in Monaco in relation to formal charges against both McLaren and Renault F1 for the alleged theft of data from competitors.
- Acting for a company in a multi-million professional negligence claim against a firm of accountants who advised and prepared a due diligence report in respect of a US investment.
- Acting for an individual and company in a shareholders’ dispute arising from a joint venture to sell lateral flow tests on a mass level to the Government, along with corporate entities.
- Acting for a high profile events company in relation to significant claims against the director and shareholder of a property development company; including successfully making an urgent administration application in the Insolvency and Companies Court. The matter also includes related defamation proceedings.
Our expert team
At Gardner Leader we support you with complete access to our full team of lawyers. We also ensure that your matter is dealt with by those with appropriate expertise, so that we can deliver the result you want, efficiently and cost effectively.
