Practice area
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.
Del Bosque Limited ("DBL") provides project management services to the construction industry; at the material time its largest client was the Department for Work and Pensions. The first defendant, Mr Amir Shafie, was a director…
Denaro (UK) Limited, an English company incorporated in July 2011, opened an account with Barclays Bank PLC in around January 2013, as did Denaro Partners LLP, a limited liability partnership of which the company was a member…
Petropavlovsk plc, an English company concerned in gold mining in Russia, was the borrower under a US$200m term loan facility from JSC Gazprombank, the benefit of which was assigned on 19 April 2022 to the Russian company Atlas…
The applicants, Mr Thomas Benski and Ms Marisa Clifford, were the founders, directors and shareholders of Pulse Films Limited, an independent media and production company in which the Vice Group had acquired a majority stake in…
The claimant, Mark Grogan, described himself as addicted to gambling, having lost around £250,000 on online gaming platforms before 2018, including £256,000 with bet365 over 16 months from August 2011. In May 2018 he opened a…
The claimants are ten Swiss and German companies in the Swatch group of watchmakers, whose brands range from Swatch in the basic range through Tissot, Mido and Hamilton, Longines and Omega to the prestige marques Breguet…
Virgin Media Limited creates and expands fibre optic data networks in the UK through contractors engaged under framework agreements, and since 2023 has provided network services to a single customer, Nexfibre Networks Ltd, which…
The claimants, David Harris and Ewelina Dulewicz, borrowed from Peninsula Finance plc under a staged development finance facility secured by charges over two properties, Oakdale and Ford Plantation. They complained that the…
Mr Matthew Shaw was involved in a road traffic accident on 30 June 2018, the alleged tortfeasor being Ms Gillian Wilde, whose motor insurer was Advantage Insurance. Mr Shaw issued proceedings and judgment was entered after a…
The claimant, Bernadette Rogers, sued her brother, the defendant Andrew Wills, in his capacity as executor of the estate of their late mother Ursula Wills — known within the family as Sheila — to recover £135,000 in contract and…
Zinnwald Lithium Plc, incorporated on 21 June 2017 and admitted to trading on AIM since 21 December 2017, develops a mining project in Saxony, Germany, with the aim of becoming a significant supplier of lithium hydroxide to the…
Nexedge Markets Limited is an FCA-authorised introducing broker in contracts for difference, whose sole shareholder and director is Mr Sami. Apollo XI Limited is a BVI special purpose vehicle which Nexedge says is ultimately…
On 18 June 2005 the appellant, Mr Christopher Berry, bought a Volkswagen Golf from a dealer identified variously as Car Giant and Twickenham Volkswagen for a cash price of £8,588.50. He paid a £500 deposit and financed the…
The claimant, Inner Mongolia King Deer Cashmere Company Limited ("IMKD"), manufactures cashmere products in China. The defendant, Mr Haian Ma, became its UK agent in 2004 for sales of cashmere products to Marks & Spencer. On Mr…
The Second Claimant, Cronus Finance Limited (now in administration), entered into a series of transaction documents on 27 October 2025 with Market Financial Solutions Ltd (MFS), a bridging loan lender and specialist property…
The claimants, Kenneth Alexander and Lee Feldman, are former directors of Entain plc, which from about January 2011 ran an online gambling business directed in one respect at people in Turkey and, in November 2011, reached a…
NFE Global Holdings Limited and NFE Brazil Newco Limited, two English-incorporated members of the New Fortress Energy group headed by the Delaware parent New Fortress Energy Inc, applied for permission to convene meetings of…
Mr Doubtfire and Mr Horrell are both businessmen and property developers whose dealings covered two ventures. The first concerned Silversword Developments Limited, of which Mr Doubtfire was a director and whose shares were held…
Riyad Bank, London Branch, had issued three letters of guarantee, in the nature of on-demand bonds, in favour of Ma'aden Wa'ad Al Shamal Phosphate Company in connection with construction contracts relating to the Umm Wu'al…
The claimant, Involve Visual Collaboration Ltd, is a limited company specialising in audio-visual collaboration solutions and the incumbent provider of audio-visual services to the Department for Work and Pensions, supplying the…