Commercial Disputes

Taylor Wessing's Commercial Disputes group typically handles high value, complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes across a wide range of sectors. The group contains a range of specialists with particular skill in providing, as appropriate:

  • Dispute avoidance advice to clients, highlighting sector specific issues and providing guidance on the implementation of policies and procedures to enable clients to minimise their dispute/litigation risk, an aspect of our work that is particularly important in the current economic climate, and
  • Practical solutions to commercial disputes when they do arise, positioning clients to the best advantage either to negotiate a successful outcome or if that is not possible, to maximise the chances of success in litigation or arbitration.  

We aim to provide advice that is pragmatic, concise and commercial. We have quick response times and a solutions driven approach with a "can do" attitude.

The group's expertise includes:

  • Banking and financial services
  • Commercial and corporate disputes, director's breach of duty, joint venture disputes, partnership disputes
  • Contractual disputes, supply disputes, agency disputes
  • Fraud and asset tracing
  • Technology disputes
  • Insurance and reinsurance disputes
  • International arbitration
  • International trade and shipping
  • Multi-jurisdictional litigation
  • Product liability
  • Professional negligence
  • Regulatory and regulatory investigations
  • Shareholder and investor disputes  

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US

"Taylor Wessing boasts an ambitious and successful litigation team." - Legal 500  

"Witnesses to the team in action laud the 'responsiveness and reflexivity' of its members in proceedings" - Legal 500  

"Taylor Wessing LLP continues to develop its emphasis on financial services litigation and has made considerable progress thanks to the efforts of Shane Gleghorn.  The firm is frequently instructed in relation to FSA investigations, including prosecutions of insider dealing, and is also in SIV related matters" - Banking litigation - Legal 500  

"Clients were vocal about this group's ability to compose a 'clued-up and results-oriented team, irrespective of tight time schedules,' and were just as complimentary about its aptitude for fraud recovery." - Chambers