Kamal Aggarwal
Partner and Head of Thames Gateway office
Specialisms and expertise
- Applying for or opposing urgent injunction applications.
- Disputes involving directors, shareholders, partners and/or members.
- Contract disputes involving either UK or overseas parties and/or subject matter.
- Construction disputes by way of litigation, adjudication and arbitration.
- Gaming, international debt recovery and agency disputes.
Past and present projects
- Multi-party disputes involving directors' breach of fiduciary duties, negligence, conflict of interest and substantial property transactions.
- Breach of warranty claim actions representing both claimants and defendants following company acquisitions or disposals.
- Obtaining world-wide freezing orders and securing substantial assets obtained by fraud and breach of fiduciary duties.
- Tracing and pursuing individuals both in the UK and overseas to recover sums due to casino clients.
- Claims involving financial assistance, minority shareholder rights, transactions at an undervalue/ preference and directors' duties.
- Construction disputes relating to RAF runway contract and part demolition and construction of a major care home facility.
Reported cases
- Thespar SA v Richard Hochfeld Ltd and Banco de Sabadell [2000] CLCCBL
- Aspinalls Club Ltd v Halabi [1998] BPIR322
- Macpherson and another v European Strategic Bureau Ltd [1992] 2BCLC203.
Achievements and other appointments
Kamal has acted as Chair of The Thames Gateway (Kent) Chamber of Commerce, the North Kent Employment Skills Board and as a member of the Thames Gateway Kent Partnership.
Kamal is recommended by The Legal 500 2008 in the field of Commercial Litigation. The Dispute Resolution team is praised in Chambers UK 2009 for its “prompt, clear and effective responses”.
Profile
Kamal joined the firm in 1992. He became a partner in 1997 and Head of the Thames Gateway office in 2005.