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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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Interactive Media Group Ltd ('IMG') was incorporated in 2009 and traded in the supply and installation of audio-visual equipment through a group of subsidiaries, including Arcstream Limited, Philharmonic Audio Visual Limited and…
The Appellant, Katarina Poznic, was a director and later an employee of StudioAnyo Architects Limited. The company was an architectural practice incorporated in 2011 as Maja Architects Limited, and it had adopted modified model…
Fulmar Contracting Ltd was an umbrella company incorporated on 3 March 2021 which supplied locum doctors to NHS end users through the employment agency Fresh Recruitment Limited, trading as Fresh Medical. It paid its workers…
The appellant, Jody Scheckter, a South African business proprietor and former motor racing driver who had realised a substantial gain on the sale of his firearms training simulator company FATS Inc., moved to England in 1996 and…
The fourth respondent, Liberas Solutions Limited, was an IT consultancy services company incorporated on 12 November 2014 by the first respondent, Deon Minaar, and Michael McIlroy, both IT consultants who had met while working on…
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…
Mr Gaymer is the freehold owner of two golf courses, a club house and ancillary buildings originally known as the Mentmore Golf Course and Country Club, land adjacent to Mentmore Towers, a Grade 1 listed house held ultimately for…
The Third Defendant, then called Pride Planning Ltd, sold funeral plans. Customers paid not the company but the Pride Planning Trust, of which they became beneficiaries; Pride Planning could appoint the trustees. When the…
Golf Holdings Ltd ("GHL"), incorporated in 2001 and at all material times a close company, acquired the shares in Wine Inns Ltd, James McCabe Ltd and City of Belfast Warehousing Ltd in 2002. The three appellants — Mr Paul Hunt…
The claimant, Cavendish IP Solutions Ltd, a litigation funder, took an assignment from the liquidator of One Property Group (UK) Limited of all the company's claims against the defendants. The company had gone into creditors'…
The dispute concerned the beneficial ownership of three two-bedroom mid-terraced properties in Chatham, Kent: 28 Grange Hill, 130 Castle Road and 44 Albany Road. HRP Complete Solutions LLP ("the Old LLP") was the beneficial…
The applicants — Thomas James Francis, Oakleigh Ventures Ltd, Patrick Higham, Adegboyega Bello and Henchoz Family Investment Ltd — were former clients of Silver Law LLP (previously Silver Shemmings Ash LLP), which acted for them…
The appellant, Michael Haslam, set up M and J Builders Ltd on 11 January 2016 and was its sole director. From July 2019 the company struggled financially, accruing tax and national insurance liabilities and taking out loans; by…
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…
Apple Properties Limited, incorporated in the Isle of Man in 1995, holds a portfolio of some 11 rented properties in London. Its two shares are held by nominee companies: one now by APL Holdco Limited for Mr Habib Bush, the other…
LM1 Limited and Seacroft Film Investments Limited settled a County Court at Leeds claim (J00LS572), in which Seacroft was claimant and LM1 defendant and counterclaimant, by a Settlement Agreement dated 28 February 2024 annexed to…
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…
Van Elle Holdings Plc, one of the UK's largest geotechnical and ground engineering contractors whose ordinary shares of 2p each are admitted to trading on AIM, applied to the court for sanction of a proposed scheme of arrangement…