A ‘match for any of the market leaders’, DAC Beachcroft LLP’s London commercial litigation group is regularly sought out by financial services, energy, technology, telecoms, and health sector corporations, as well as senior managers, professionals, shareholders and investors. The team’s disputes expertise ranges from contractual and shareholder conflicts, to contested share purchase agreements and corporate control matters. ‘Extremely effective at procuring good outcomes for clients’, John Bramhall is experienced in acting for (and against) financial institutions in disputes over financial product mis-selling; accountancy service line leader Richard Highley has ’excellent judgement’; Jonathan Brogden‘s caseload covers contractual, banking and finance disputes, along with financial services regulatory investigations and white-collar crime; and Clarissa Coleman represents corporations and individuals in multi-jurisdictional disputes. Among the department’s other experienced practitioners, Laura Berry is an expert in multi-jurisdictional matters; multi-party civil fraud and conspiracy disputes specialist Lisa Skipp is ’committed to clients’; Pippa Ellis assists with corporate and shareholder disputes; contract disputes expert Lucy Grivvell ‘always gets the best results’; and Julian Bubb-Humfryes’ practice includes cross-border evidential issues. Commercial disputes practitioner and former partner Ken Forsyth is now a consultant at the firm.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘They care about client outcomes and work intensively to achieve positive results.’
‘A match for any of the market leaders.’
Key clients
- Delta Capital International
- Viaro Energy
Work highlights
- Defending Delta Capital International (the second defendant), and its CEO Milen Veltchev (the fourth defendant), against wrongful sale of company shares actions, which were commenced by LIC Telecommunications and Empreno Ventures (as well as V2 Investment).
- Instructed by Viaro Energy, RockRose Energy (and the statutory directors of such entities ) to defend joint venture-related claims brought by TAQA Bratani, TAQA Bratani LNS, Spirit Energy Resources, and JX Nippon Exploration and Production (UK).