We regularly advise both sellers and buyers on claims arising from corporate acquisitions and disposals, including for breaches of warranties and amounts owed under indemnities (including tax), locked box, completion accounts and earn-out procedures.
We also have wide experience advising clients involved in shareholder and other private company disputes, most often where allegations of conduct which causes unfair prejudice to the minority are made, but also where directors are alleged to have breached fiduciary and other duties.
In all such claims, we work closely with relevant accountancy, valuation and tax experts with whom we have strong relationships.
Our experience includes:
- Representing a household name travel business on its claim against the sellers of a niche ski company for indemnification in respect of its latent Swiss tax liabilities.
- Representing buyers of an SME in relation to a claim for breach of warranty based on a key employee’s misuse of confidential data, and in relation to simultaneous exercise of contractual set-off against deferred consideration payable to sellers.
- Representing shareholders in various quasi-partnership family and other businesses in relation to claims of unfair prejudice alleged to have been caused by alteration of compulsory share purchase articles and/or exclusion from management and/or non-payment of dividends and/or diversion of business.
- Disputes
- Commercial disputes
- M&A and shareholder disputes
- International arbitration
- Employment disputes
- Defamation and reputation management
- IP disputes
- Fraud and asset recovery
- Will, trust and estate disputes
- Construction and engineering disputes
- Real estate disputes
- Franchising disputes
- Technology disputes
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