Company, partnerships & LLPs
We pride ourselves on the multi-disciplinary skills of our members and our ability to offer the right mix of seniority and experience to deal with any dispute in the fields of our expertise, ranging from the largest and most complex pieces of litigation and arbitration, to the smallest disputes. Thus providing our clients with an advantage when different areas of specialism overlap.
Company, partnership and LLP disputes regularly throw up complex issues involving a wide range of legal disciplines including fraud, insolvency, trusts, property rights and negligence, and Maitland is able to put together a team which can readily cover all such issues.
Members of Chambers are – and have been for many years – highly ranked in the legal directories for company and partnership disputes, in addition to several other key legal fields which often overlap with company and partnership disputes.
With a vast number of silks and juniors specialising in company and partnership law, our members regularly appear in courts and tribunals of every level in England and Wales (including the Privy Council) and internationally.
We have been instructed in relation to many of the major domestic and international disputes involving company and partnership matters in the last few decades across a wide variety of industries, including banking and financial services, private equity, hedge funds, sport, retail, tech, fishing, construction and charities. Key highlights include: British American Tobacco v Sequana, Tugushev v Orlov, Various Shareholders v Tesco Plc, RBS v Hicks and F&C Alternative Investments.
In addition to heavy trial and arbitration hearings, members are regularly instructed in the appellate courts on complex and important questions of company and partnership law. Recent examples include members’ appearances in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in the Lehman Brothers Waterfall proceedings, Jetivia v Bilta, FHR European Ventures and Sinclair v Versailles.
Our members are also often instructed to provide company and partnership advice and assistance in a range of jurisdictions, including the BVI, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore. A number of members are already called to the Bar of some of these jurisdictions and others are willing to be called on an ad hoc or permanent basis where the need arises.
For further information regarding specific areas of our expertise in the field of Company, Partnership and LLPs, please see below.
Expertise
General company work
General partnership work
Corporate governance, directors’ and partnership duties
Shareholder disputes and unfair prejudice
Corporate insolvency
Directors’ disqualification claims
International and offshore company and partnership work
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