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Whatever issue you're facing, we use our experience to find the best solution for you. Here you can read case studies demonstrating how we have helped other clients to find commercial solutions to their problems and enable them to get on with business.

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Dispute resolution, Private client commercial litigation & dispute resolution, Debt recovery

Using a winding up petition to recover a £33,086 debt plus legal costs

Our client needed urgent help recovering £33,086 from a debtor. The debtor refused to respond to a letter before action and so a decision...

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Dispute resolution, Debt recovery

Achieving full recovery of a debt through a winding up petition and safeguarding the money from a supporting creditor

Our client, a recruitment company in the construction industry, needed our help recovering a debt of £4,393 following non-payment of temporary labour service.

Private clients
- Personal insolvency
SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Debt recovery

Preparing a statement of costs to maximise recovery of a small debt claim

Our client, a large collection agency, needed our assistance recovering outstanding accommodation charges on behalf of a customer.

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Dispute resolution, Shareholder and member services

Mediating between two shareholders to reach a resolution which satisfied both sides

Our client was an engineer who suspected that his fellow business owner was conducting competing business, separately drawing excessive sums, introducing associated parties as...

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Dispute resolution, Shareholder and member services

Recovering losses for members of an investment company whose returns on interest had been diminishing while the business flourished

We were approached by a large number of members of an investment company with complaints about the direction and management of the company. In...

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Dispute resolution, Shareholder and member services

Settling a shareholder dispute with an offer which exceeded our clients’ expectations

Our clients were two former shareholders (and directors) of a business which had been acquired and disposed of by a larger company. They had...

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Dispute resolution, Freezing orders, Shareholder and member services

Assisting hotelier to resolve a shareholder dispute and helping him avoid a freezing order

Our client, a hotelier with a large chain of hotels, was facing a worldwide freezing injunction and claims by shareholders over his personal assets...

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Freezing orders

Successfully obtaining a freezing order to help a leading invoice finance business deal with a fraudulent debt of circa £400k

Our client, one of the leading independent invoice finance businesses in the UK, contacted us for advice on their options for dealing with a...

Private clients
- Commercial litigation and dispute resolution, Personal insolvency

Obtaining a validation order to facilitate the sale of a property in the face of a bankruptcy petition

HMRC had presented a bankruptcy petition against our client, a private individual in the process of selling his home. The petition was for historical...

Banks & financial institutions
- Client take-on, Debt recovery, Day-to-day support, Litigation and dispute resolution

Efficiently getting debts paid by a debtor outside the UK

Our client, an invoice factoring company, was faced with a situation where a significant debtor based in Northern Ireland had gone to ground.

Private clients
- Commercial litigation and dispute resolution, Debt recovery

Stepping in to help when money came between friends

An individual approached us when money he had lent to a friend remained unrepaid. Unable to get hold of the former friend, they asked...

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