Practice area
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).
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…
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…
H and M are former spouses whose financial dispute following a foreign divorce is being litigated in England under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984. The case had already produced two reported judgments…
The claimant, Garden House Software Limited ("GHSL"), is the assignee of the claims of Serisys Limited (in liquidation) ("the Company"), an English company compulsorily wound up on HMRC's petition on 27 March 2019. The Company…
Mr Parwinder Singh Gill left school without qualifications and worked as a ground worker in construction before incorporating PS Gill Construction Ltd in 2008 at the suggestion of his main client, Houlihan & Co (Excavations) Ltd…
The claimant, Alliance Petrochemical Investment (Singapore) Pte Ltd ("API"), is a Singapore company and shareholder in Mehr Petrochemical Company ("MHPC"), an Iranian producer of high-density polyethylene, whose product API was…
Alexander Luxury (Yorkshire) Limited owned a property at 2 Southfield, Hessle, and engaged Developstate Limited to redevelop it and manage the works. No written contract was entered into; the parties proceeded on an "elemental…
The claimants, Mr Evans, Mr Walters and Mr Wood, were members of JNP Northern LLP ("JNP North"), a civil engineering practice operating from Brighouse and Sheffield, which collaborated with JNP Engineers LLP ("JNP South"), based…
The claimant, Balbinder Singh Battu, invested in a residential property development in Southampton. He had first lent money to Canal Walk Developments Ltd ("CWD"), which owned the site, advancing some £597,000 in 12 tranches…
The claimant, Xenfin Fund 1 Trading Limited (in liquidation), is a Guernsey non-cellular company incorporated on 9 March 2017 as the special purpose vehicle through which the Xenfin Securities Debt Fund 1 Cell of GFG Funds PCC…
The applicant, Mr John Bladon, owns 4 Polls Yard, Castor, Cambridgeshire, one of four dwellings arranged around a communal courtyard developed under a 1991 planning permission for two barn conversions and two new dwellings. A…
Genesis (2014) UK Ltd was incorporated in October 2014 and operated a haulage business, with Mr Marcus Hughes as its sole director and shareholder until 4 December 2018. He resigned after the traffic commissioner disqualified him…
Mohammed Sarwar and his wife Robina Kausar built up the Cambridge Hotel in Huddersfield, run through Cambridge Hotel and Lodge Limited, and later expanded the family's interests, acquiring the Ibis Hotel in Bradford through a…
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…