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).
The claimant, Burnden Holdings (UK) Limited, now in liquidation, was a holding company whose subsidiaries carried on a conservatory supply and construction business and, through Vital Energi Utilities Limited, a combined heat and…
Optaglio Limited, founded by Mr Philip Hudson in about 2000, manufactures optical technology including holographic security foils and labels, and by 2006 had a turnover of some £15 million and a Czech subsidiary, Optaglio s.r.o…
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…
Sunwing Vacations Inc and Vacances Sunwing Inc applied against E-Clear (UK) PLC, a company in voluntary liquidation, and its liquidators, Mr Cohen and Mr Nygate. The applicants sought an order that the company, through its…
The White House, a villa in Spain, was once the matrimonial home of Mr Andre David Salt and his wife, Mrs Janet Salt, though neither owned it directly: it was held by a Spanish company, Proserpina Investments, itself owned by a…
The appellant, S Patrick Erdal, held 17,131 Ordinary Shares and 53,476 non-voting "A" Ordinary Shares in Tullis Russell & Company Limited, a private paper-manufacturing company incorporated in 1906 whose business dated back to…
Richard Carr was a director and chief executive of TransTec Plc from November 1994 until his resignation on 23 December 1999. A chartered accountant by training, he pursued an ambitious acquisitions programme for the engineering…
Mr Philip Phillips, a valuer and estate agent, began in business in the 1950s and by his death on 22 March 2000 owned shares in eight related family companies, among them P P Investments Limited, an unquoted company established…
The appellant, British Telecommunications plc, was a publicly quoted UK-resident telecommunications company which had acquired a 20 per cent shareholding in MCI Communications Corporation, a US telecommunications provider, in…
Mohenderjit Singh Khaira traded as Tony Fish Bar, a fish and chip shop in Hayes, Middlesex, registered for VAT from 21 December 1989 as a partnership on the application of Mr Sukkdev Singh Nahal, a silent partner holding 25% to…
Noved Investment Company, incorporated with limited liability in 1919 by two members of the Foyle family to sell books, was later re-registered as an unlimited company with a share capital and, following the transfer of the…
Company Registrations Online Limited provided an extensive range of corporate services, mainly to solicitors and accountants but also directly to the public. The service in issue was its online company formation service, sold in…
Mr Peter Schroeder, a Canadian national living in Denmark, at all material times owned and controlled The Arena Corporation Limited, a company incorporated in the Isle of Man in March 1993 whose directors belonged to an Isle of…
In 1995 Mr Sandhu and Mr Gill agreed as partners at will to purchase 59 Mountdale Gardens, Leigh On Sea, Essex, to convert it into an old people's residential home and to carry on that business there. The property was duly…
The dispute arose within the extended family of C. B. Shah, who died in 1984 leaving twelve children — six sons and six daughters. From about 1966 Ratilal and Rajnikant came to the United Kingdom and started a drapery business in…
Mrs Dyanne Cheung was a director of West West Ltd, which traded as Mr Au Restaurant, a buffet-style Chinese restaurant just off Leicester Square in central London. The company registered for VAT from 26 August 1998 and opened…
Buildlead Limited was the wholly owned subsidiary of Quicksons (South and West) Limited. Each company in the group had given the bank, Lloyds, a debenture securing its indebtedness by fixed and floating charges, overdraft…