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Our approach
When conversation turns into conflict, you need a legal team with the experience and expertise to protect your interests and achieve swift, commercially realistic results in the most cost efficient and risk free manner possible.
Clients ranging from individuals and entrepreneurs to corporations and multi-national organisations trust our commercial litigation lawyers, based in Kent, to deliver results for them in even the most complex of cases. We make it a point to get to know our clients, to understand their objectives thoroughly, provide clear advice and commercially minded recommendations in plain English, and to make ourselves available whenever and wherever our clients need us.
Our commercial litigation lawyers specialise in helping settle disputes using mediation, arbitration and other ADR approaches, but are equally skilled and experienced in fighting our clients’ corner in court where necessary. We can also offer risk management and litigation avoidance advice, to help stop issues developing into full disputes.
Accreditations & awards
The team are excellent - they are always attuned to the commercial goals a client is seeking to achieve and are therefore pragmatic in their advice.
International arbitration
We have significant arbitration experience and expertise in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations pursuant to the rules of:
- The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA).
We also have extensive experience of working with trade bodies such as:
- The Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA)
- The Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association (FOSFA)
- London Metal Exchange (LME).
Our experts regularly assist with complex, cross border arbitration and we have links with specialist experts across the globe.
Recent examples include:
- Acting on behalf of buyers and sellers in numerous high-value GAFTA and FOSFA arbitrations
- Acting for an international mining company in multi-million dollar dispute arising from non-payment for a shipment of coal. LCIA arbitration
- Acting for a defendant in a complex dispute arising from the sale of steel mills in Russia. Claimants seeking USD 69 million in repayments of funds invested in the mills. Contracts subject to English law and Swiss Rules of arbitration.
Key contacts
James is very strong in delivering high-quality client service, responsiveness and procedural mastery but also displays very strong legal and tactical awareness.