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The internal life of companies: shareholders and shareholder disputes, directors and their duties, unfair prejudice petitions, derivative claims, share capital, registers and filings, and corporate insolvency (administration, liquidation, winding-up). Distinct from Commercial Law: a case belongs here when it concerns the company itself — its governance, officers, members or insolvency — even where a commercial contract forms the background (e.g. a shareholder dispute arising out of a sale contract is Company Law).
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The claimants are creditors under two arbitration awards made in London-seated arbitrations. The first claimant, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan ("SOCAR"), is the direct or indirect parent of the other…
The claimants were Wenda Co Ltd, a Chinese company manufacturing and trading in food ingredient chemicals, and its founder and chairman, Mr Xiong Wei. They sought to enforce at common law in England a judgment of the Intermediate…
BOH Investments Ltd was wholly owned by Mr Gary Quillan, who was also its sole director. On 16 January 2017 BOH passed a resolution for voluntary winding up and Andrew Rosler of Ideal Corporate Solutions Limited was appointed…
The second defendant, Hunkemöller International BV, is a Netherlands-based European retailer of intimate apparel. In October 2022 it issued €272,500,000 of Senior Secured 9% Notes under an indenture governed by New York law, the…
Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (CYK), a firm of solicitors, sued Mr Laurence Davis and Mr John Baker for unpaid fees of £194,137.72 by a claim issued on 22 July 2021. The defendants counterclaimed for professional negligence, valued…
The Claimants, Domestic & General entities, brought long-running proceedings alleging that a succession of businesses used fraudulent "association misrepresentation" telephone sales calls to sell appliance warranty products…
Float Capital Limited was in creditors' voluntary liquidation, with Mr Bouchier and Mr Woodthorpe appointed as joint liquidators. On 24 July 2026 Chief ICC Judge Briggs handed down a judgment, [2026] EWHC 1891 (Ch), and made two…
TG Jones High Street Limited (HSL) and TG Jones Retail Holdings Limited (RHL), together the Plan Companies, formed part of the Modella Capital Limited group, which had acquired WH Smith PLC's high street retail business in 2025…
Mr Spencer Golding was one of the individuals behind London Capital & Finance Plc (LCF), which operated a Ponzi scheme funded by some 11,600 bondholders from whom around £237 million was raised, many of them people of modest…
P1 Pit Stop Limited was incorporated in August 2014 by Mr Palmer and Mr Forland, who each took 200 shares, with 100 going to a third subscriber, Mr Marmon; Mr Forland has been the sole de iure director throughout. In breach of…
Glint Pay Ltd (GPL) and its subsidiaries Glint Pay Services Ltd and Glint Pay UK Ltd operate a gold-backed debit card app. In January 2019 GPL borrowed £1.65 million from Brahma Finance (BVI) Ltd, secured by a debenture granting…
Dogwoof Ltd is a London documentary film company whose shareholders are Mr Paul Andrew Whittaker (approximately 25%), Bertha UK Ltd (approximately 40%), Ms Anna Godas and Mr Oliver Harbottle, their relations governed by a…
NGHL and AFL (formerly AFL Insurance Brokers Limited) brought claims against Alec Finch and his son Bob Finch, former directors of AFL. NGHL claimed fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of warranty over its 2017 purchase of a…
The claimant, The Wine Enterprise Investment Scheme Limited ("TWEISL"), in liquidation and acting by its joint liquidators, sued its former auditors, Crowe U.K. LLP (formerly Clark Whitehill LLP), alleging that competent auditing…
Mr Philip Gamett and Mr Paul Hughes have known each other since childhood and began a wholesale t-shirt business, Hardwear Inc, together in about 1994. Continental Clothing Company Limited was incorporated in July 1998 as its…
The applicant, NW Publishing UK Ltd, provides support and back-end services to digital news publications and, until 2022, formed part of the Newsweek business; its sole director is Mr William Henry Dove. The respondent, Newsweek…
Green Parks (Holdings) Limited owned the freehold of the intended Westbeach Holiday Resort at Westward Ho! near Bideford, Devon, which it proposed to develop in seven blocks. On 4 April 2016 it granted a 999-year headlease to…
High Resolution Design Limited, trading as The London Toy Company, was incorporated in 2015 by Mr Joel Berkowitz, a transport and automotive designer. Mr Matthew Hellens acquired a 50% shareholding for £80,000 in February 2022…
Cogefin (Bermuda) Limited was incorporated in Bermuda in February 1996 as an exempted company wholly owned by the Poole Family Trust, of which Mr Giuseppe Ciardi was the economic settlor and beneficiary. It was funded with some…
Reddleman Properties Ltd ("RPL") was incorporated in August 2000 by Mr Stuart Walker and his wife, who between them owned the whole share capital. In December 2000 it bought commercial premises at 15 Princes Street, Thurso, about…