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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, Director services, Shareholder and member services

Achieving a beneficial settlement for a Director who had experienced unfair prejudice

FWJ helped its client in an unfair prejudice petition against his co-director/shareholder and dealt with a winding up petition

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Dispute resolution, Tax disputes

Helping a client with a Code of Practice 9 defence and a Worldwide Disclosure Facility response

We helped our client by making full disclosure to HMRC and mitigating penalties and the amounts he paid back

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Commercial litigation, Tax disputes

Successful defence of HMRC Code of Practice 9 (COP9) claim

Through our help we saved our client over £500k by defending an HMRC Code of Practice 9 claim.

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Director services

Assisting father and son directors facing 9-year disqualification periods for alleged COVID-19 related offences

Through our expert advice, we helped reduce the amount of compensation the Insolvency Service was claiming from former company directors over a Bounce Back...

Insolvency practitioners
- Administration

How we helped a company to trade whilst awaiting an arbitration appeal

We acted for the administrators of a design and construction company which had lost an arbitration

Insolvency practitioners
- Administration

How we successfully oversaw a pre-pack sale of a restaurant chain.

We acted for the administrators of an American style chain of restaurants in a successful pre-pack sale of six of its outlets.

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Director services

Assisting a director of a company facing a 6-year disqualification period for alleged COVID-19 related offences

We helped our client avoid a 6 year director ban following a company Bounce Back Loan in the pandemic

Insolvency practitioners
- Administration

Helping administrators with the sale of a nightclub

We acted for the administrators of a London Nightclub which suffered in the pandemic.

Insolvency practitioners
- Administration

Supporting administrators in a successful pre-pack sale

When a temporary recruitment business went into administration, the administrators sought our help with selling the company

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Debt recovery

Fully recovering a PR company’s unpaid fees through a letter before action

Our client, a PR company, needed help recovering unpaid fees worth circa £60,000. We had been recommended to them by another client of ours.

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Debt recovery

Using a Part 36 offer to achieve more than a full recovery of unpaid solicitors’ fees

Our commercial approach ensures we get our clients debts paid, whatever it takes.

SMEs, directors & shareholders
- Tax disputes

Negotiating with HMRC to withdraw a statutory demand

Our client had been served with a statutory demand by HMRC which they believed to be unjustified and wanted cancelled.

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