England - East Anglia • Dispute resolution

Fraser Dawbarns

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Fraser Dawbarns‘s team has developed a capable dispute resolution practice in Wisbech, where practice head Neil John resides, and King’s Lynn, where associate Joshua Shuardson-Hipkin is the key contact. The practice is noted as being ’pragmatic, responsive and very supportive of its clients’. Shuardson-Hipkin ‘brings a sophisticated, subtle and strategic approach to his cases’; he recently handled a complex commercial partnership dispute regarding substantial assets, involving the dissolution of said partnership following the death of one party.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team are pragmatic, responsive and very supportive of their clients.’

  • ‘Joshua Shuardson-Hipkin brings a sophisticated, subtle and strategic approach to his cases.’

  • 'The team quickly understand your aims and desired outcome and work efficiently and pragmatically to achieve it.'

  • 'Joshua Shuardson-Hipkin deals with everything in a pragmatic manner.'

Work highlights

  • Advised in a commercial partnership dispute involving the dissolution of the partnership following the death of one party which involved a substantial overseas property portfolio.
  • Advising a technology company whose rights to supply a piece of security equipment to an airport, and to benefit from the multi-million pound contract associated with it, are being challenged by another party who claim they were the original designers of the equipment.
  • Advising a client in the renewables sector on a dispute concerning the provisions of a loan agreement form a third party. The outcome of the dispute was critical for the implementation of a new wind turbine project.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Neil John

Other key lawyers

Joshua Shuardson-Hipkin