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).
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…
The Companies formed part of the Orthios Group, which operated various businesses from the former Anglesey Aluminium Ltd site in Holyhead. The group raised £66m in bonds from Cresta Energy Limited through MPB Eco Parks Limited…
Mr and Mrs Ronnan and Mr Stansfield were the shareholders and directors of Rumour Bar & Club Limited, incorporated in October 2021 to set up and operate a bar and nightclub in Clitheroe. Mr and Mrs Ronnan held 55% of the shares…
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…
The applicant wife, LE, and the respondent husband, EL, began living together in late 1995 or 1996 and married in May 1997. There are two children of the family, both now adult and living with their father. The wife put the…
Inmarsat plc is a globally recognised provider of mobile satellite services, formed in 1979 as a treaty-based organisation and listed in England since 2005, with some 463,058,610 shares in issue. Part of its income derives from a…
Mr Philip Brown, a quantity surveyor, went into business in 2007 with Mr Stephen Bray and Mr Philip Sharp through Audas Project Management Limited ("APML"), each holding an equal shareholding and working full time in the…
Ready Rentals Limited, now in liquidation, brought proceedings in 2010 against Mr Kaamran Ahmed and Mr Aref Zakari concerning a property at 4-6 Victoria Terrace, Leamington Spa. On 28 March 2011 Judge Cooke, sitting as a Judge of…
A Ltd is a company incorporated in England and Wales, part of a multinational conglomerate operating in the power generation and transport sectors. In November 2000 X was appointed chairman and chief executive of A Ltd, while Y…