London · Established 1987
Counsel for the decisions that cannot be undone.
A disputes and corporate practice of eleven partners. We take a small number of matters and staff them with people whose names are on the door.
The record · 2025
£640m
Value of matters in 2025
94%
Disputes resolved pre-trial
11
Partners
On how we work
Litigation is a commercial decision that happens to involve lawyers.
Almost every client who walks through our door is certain they are in the right. Most of them are. It is rarely the relevant question.
The relevant question is what the outcome is worth, what it will cost to obtain, how long the business will be distracted, and what happens to the counterparty relationship afterwards. We give you that assessment in writing within ten working days of being instructed — including the case we would put against you.
Roughly a third of our advice in the first month is that a matter should be settled rather than fought. It is a poor way to maximise fees and a very good way to keep clients for twenty years.
Practice areas
Six · select to open
01 Commercial litigation +
High Court and arbitral disputes, from injunctive relief through to enforcement across jurisdictions.
02 Corporate & M&A +
Acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations for owner-managed businesses and mid-market funds.
03 Employment +
Board-level exits, restrictive covenants and the tribunal claims that follow them.
04 Real estate +
Development, institutional investment and landlord-and-tenant disputes on commercial portfolios.
05 Regulatory & investigations +
FCA, HSE and internal investigations where the commercial risk outruns the legal one.
06 Private wealth +
Succession, trusts and the contentious probate that families do not plan for.
Recent matter · Commercial Court · value £64m
Freezing injunction obtained within thirty-one hours of instruction.
Acting for a manufacturing group whose finance director had moved £11m through four jurisdictions over nineteen months. We obtained a worldwide freezing order and an ancillary disclosure order on a without-notice application, traced the funds through Jersey and Dubai, and recovered £9.4m inside a year.
£9.4m
Recovered
31 hrs
To order
Four
Jurisdictions
The first conversation is privileged and costs nothing.
Tell us what has happened. We will tell you whether you have a case, what we think it is worth, and whether you should bring it — before any question of fees arises.