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Business-to-business dealings: commercial contracts and their interpretation, sale of goods and supply of services, warranties and indemnities, agency, distribution and franchising, guarantees, and commercial arbitration disputes. Distinct from Company Law: a case belongs here when it concerns bargains between businesses, not the governance, membership or insolvency of a company.
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Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery Limited (PLOR) owned and operated a refinery at North Killingholme. Under a set of Transaction Documents entered into in July 2024, Glencore Energy UK Ltd was PLOR's exclusive supplier of crude oil…
By a Loan Agreement dated 18 December 2019, governed by English law under clause 8 of that agreement, the claimant, Mr Mark Denning, lent US$1 million to the first defendant, Arcem Resources Limited, to provide emergency funding…
Grainful Holding Limited brought proceedings in the Commercial Court against Igor Mineev in respect of a debt. In aid of those proceedings a disclosure order was made on 22 October 2024, requiring Mr Mineev to provide a range of…
The Rogano was one of the oldest and most celebrated restaurants in Glasgow, first trading in 1874 and operating continuously at 11 Exchange Place from 1935 until it closed in 2020 during the Covid-19 restrictions. Forthwell…
The claimant, Maire S.p.A., an Italian company, guaranteed the performance of three contracts by which its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont's Russian subsidiary MT Russia LLC agreed to build the Kingisepp-2 ammonia…
Intralinks Inc, a US provider of virtual data rooms, supplied services to Nexans SA, a French cable company, for "Project Otto" under a contract made on 2 or 3 October 2024. Two competing work orders existed. The first, sent by…
The claimant, Coventry & Warwickshire Development Partnership LLP, engaged the defendant, Avison Young (UK) Limited, from January 2020 to January 2023 to act as NEC project manager and NEC supervisor on its development works at…
The claimant, NoCopyrightSounds Limited ("NCS"), holds rights in a catalogue of music and sound recordings and carries on business as a YouTube channel, music publisher and record label. The defendants, AEI Music Limited and…
The dispute concerned the historic sale of payment protection insurance alongside retailer store cards, from the 1970s until 14 January 2005. The policies were underwritten by Financial Insurance Company Limited and Financial…
The claimants, Teh Hong Eng Investments Holding Limited and Meridian Investment Group Pte Limited, brought a high value Commercial Court claim against Kropz plc, Cominco Resources Limited and Mr Michael John Nunn arising out of…
The claimants, Degroma Trading Inc. and Neriman Associates S.A., are Turkish SPVs whose only business concerned two vessels, the "Diamond-T" and the "Ruby-T". In December 2022 they entered sale-and-leaseback financing with…
The claimants are nine Lloyd's syndicate interests ("the Insurers") who wrote the Second Excess layer of Petrofac Ltd's Directors & Officers programme, Policy No. FD1640350, providing £45 million of cover in excess of £30…
Conex Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd ("COGH"), a British Virgin Islands company heading a group selling oil and gas in West Africa, gave a guarantee delivered to PSTV Energy FZCO on or around 4 September 2023 of the obligations of its…
In 2013 the claimant, Derek Richardson, purchased Moonstone Holdings Limited, a Maltese company which owned 98% of the shares in Wasps Holdings Limited, the owner of the Wasps rugby club. Between 2015 and 2017 the first and…
IRB-Brasil Resseguros S.A. ("IRB"), a Brazilian insurance company whose UK branch is regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority, and Community Reinsurance Corporation Limited ("Community…
The claimant, Tour des Finances NV GVBF, owns the Tour des Finances in Brussels, said to be the largest office building in Belgium and let principally to the Belgian federal government. It financed its acquisition of the property…
Mr Roberts had spent his career in pensions, joining the 3173 group as a consultant in Glasgow on 1 September 2011 and moving to Manchester in 2015 to set up a regional office. He became a director of Dalriada Trustees in October…
CoreLogic UK Limited (formerly ETech Solutions Limited) develops SurveyHub, a back-end business management tool used by mortgage valuation providers. Landmark Valuation Services Limited (formerly Quest End Computer Services…
360 Recruitment Limited is a specialist recruitment agency supplying temporary and permanent staff across industries including construction, engineering and manufacturing, with offices in London and Nottingham. Samuel Amos was…
Pedregal Maritime SA ("the Owners") owned the vessel "Taikoo Brilliance" and carried a cargo of timber comprising 36,934 JAS CBM of New Zealand Pine Logs from New Zealand to Kandla, India. Batavia Eximp & Contracting (S) Pte Ltd…