DWF‘s ’incredibly strong, client-focused team’ specialises in three main areas: technology disputes, namely software disputes and project delays or failures; trade disputes, with expertise in commercial agency claims within the aerospace and retail sectors; and fraud disputes. The team is led by Andrew Leach, who has notable expertise litigating shareholder claims, contractual disputes and corporate disputes, while Darren Kenny represents high-net-worth individuals, banks, and companies in a broad range of disputes including commercial fraud claims. Ben Griffin has significant experience acting for clients in a wide variety of industries including the energy and natural resources, IT and telecoms, financial services, aerospace, transport, healthcare, and food and hospitality sectors.
Testimonials
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‘Top-notch team - Andrew Leach is a very qualified lawyer.’
‘I often work with Andrew Leach. He is very clever and strategically astute. He understands the ins and outs of cross border litigation.’
Key clients
- British Telecommunications Plc
- Emirates NBD Bank
Work highlights
- Acting for Emirates NBD Bank in obtaining a judgment for £81m as well as a freezing injunction and reversing transfers of £2.5m and an apartment in London which were found by the judge to be transactions defrauding creditors.
- Acting for two defendants in the high-profile claim concerning the alleged 'Wirecard fraud'.