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- Debt Recovery and Contract Litigation Since opening for business in 2002, we have provided debt recovery services to our recruitment clients. This form of contract litigation spans the various recruitment sectors, including construction, R2R, accounting and financial services, IT and...
- Director £100 million turnover group of companies Our client was a director of a £100 million turnover group of companies involved in property development work. He had also become a director of a recruitment company (on the recommendation of a friend). Unfortunately that company (which he had no day...
- Injunctive Relief Advice and Representation We have experience of complex litigation on behalf of clients seeking to protect their businesses following the unexpected departure of a team (or teams) of individuals who then set up their own recruitment company. One case involved the suspected theft of...
- Litigation Avoidance through Negotiation / Mediation Services Recent cases in this area involved a parent company disputing their position as a contracting party and seeking to pass on liability to its insolvent subsidiary (relying upon a complicated group structure, varying letterheads and banking arrangements to...
- Restrictive Covenant Advice We were recently involved acting for a recruitment client who had been sued by another recruitment agency after a team of individuals joined our client from the other agency. We also acted for the individuals concerned in a personal capacity as they had also...
- Sales and Acquisitions of Insolvent Businesses Over the last few years FWJ have dealt with over 10 recruitment companies that have been placed into administration. In each of these cases FWJ has assisted the insolvency practitioners appointed in trading the recruitment company in order to preserve...