Corporate Disputes of any nature can be daunting and stressful to navigate. Our team of dispute resolution solicitors are able to offer an individually tailored/tactical and personal service using their specialist knowledge to ensure your commercial and contractual dispute settles with the best possible outcome.
The legally qualified members of the team are able to use their years of knowledge to offer tactical expertise in dealing with matters involving commercial and contractual disputes. They also utilise the same knowledge and experience to pursue or defend your matter in a strategic and constructive manner, and do so, for a wide range of businesses.
We understand that all disputes and business are unique, requiring us to work closely with you to fully understand the issues in which you are facing. This enables us to provide the right pragmatic and strategic advice to ensure that your business objectives are being supported to the best of our collective ability whilst at the same time ensuring the most expeditious and economical result.
Our team of dispute resolution solicitors are astute, grounded, and aim to deliver the clearest candid commercial advice with the aim to protect your interests and rights or those of your business.
Not all disputes need to go to court in order to resolve the issues involved. In fact, we advocate mediation and negotiation, putting litigation as the last possible course of redress. This is the method advocated by the court and the civil/commercial system. Our procedural knowledge helps us to guide our clients through what is required of them with a creative and tactical approach to the resolution of the disputes. This often takes the form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) or mediation.
Experience
- Shareholder or Partnership Disputes: advising clients who trade with others either in partnership or as directors of limited companies. This includes advice to minority shareholders on their rights and remedies, including the possible presentation of unfair prejudice winding up petitions.
- Restrictive Covenants: advising commercial clients on potential remedies against former directors or employees who appear to be in breach of restrictive covenants contained in their contracts of employment, including the removal of confidential information. Advising individuals and their new employers on whether they are able to resist such a claim.
- Contractual Disputes: advising clients on how to deal with disputes arising from Commercial contracts including breach of contract claims, whether that be failure to comply with terms of a formal written contract or failure to pay invoices. Claims include seeking a specific amount or seeking an award of damages with the amount to be determined by the court.
- Debt Recovery: advising clients in the most economical and effective method of pursuing any debt owed or the negotiation with creditors to avoid the court or bankruptcy/insolvency proceedings.
- Bankruptcy/Insolvency: advising clients about insolvency matters, assisting other lawyers with insolvency implications, and reviewing work carried out on behalf of insolvency practitioners.
How we work
We will meet with you to take instructions in relation to all of the issues and provide you with a pragmatic plan to resolve the issues you have effectively. We will provide you with advice and guide you though the process using our expert knowledge to the systems and procedures available.
Why choose Hunt & Coombs Commercial Disputes?
All of our fee earners within the Dispute Resolution department are fully qualified solicitors. The solicitors have varying levels of experience and we work as a team to progress a claim pooling our knowledge and experience to pursue the best possible outcome for our clients.
We provide a personal service so you will know who will be conducting your matter from start to finish and how to contact them.
To discuss a potential commercial dispute, please contact our Dispute Resolution Team on 01733 882800, email [email protected] or fill out our Contact Us form.
