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Area of Law: Property
Christopher Stoner QC appeared in Horsford v Horsford, a 10-day Chancery Division trial, acting for a son who had been sued by his mother for £2.5m for her share in the family farming partnership. The son counterclaimed on the grounds of proprietary estoppel alleging he had given his life over to the farm following a lifetime of assurances it would one day be his.
Read MoreArea of Law: Civil Fraud
Lance Ashworth QC and Dan McCourt Fritz represented the Defendants in a 6-day Chancery Division trial, defeating claims for conspiracy to defraud in connection with the Van Dutch luxury yachts in Taylor v Van Dutch.
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Hugh Norbury QC and Mark Wraith appeared for the claimant in Saatchi v Gajjar [2019] EWHC 3472 (Ch), and obtained permission to continue a derivative claim arising out of alleged misappropriation by the defendant from a company involved in the storage and transportation of Mr Saatchi's art collection.
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Lance Ashworth QC and Zahler Bryan have been acting for the claimant in the case of de Silva v Lucas & Ribeiro, a claim in respect of the ownership of an Estonian holding company, which (through Estonian and Portuguese subsidiaries) owns a very substantial property development in Lisbon, Portugal.
Read MoreArea of Law: Partnership and LLP
James Mather acted for the respondent fund management company in Lady Moon v Petricca, in which an SPV of the American private equity firm Cerberus sought to wind up a substantial Italian investment fund. This was the first claim of its kind in which an allegedly insolvent foreign fund was sought to be wound up in the English Court on the basis that it is analogous to an English trust. Petricca successfully disputed the English Court's jurisdiction to hear the claim.
Read MoreArea of Law: Partnership and LLP
In Re Infund LLP, John Machell QC and Dan McCourt Fritz act for the appellants in respect of a claim brought by Grupo Mexico seeking to avoid the restoration of an LLP to the Register of Companies. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court in October 2021 and concerns the proper construction and effect of section 1096 of the Companies Act 2006.
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In Brown v MML Capital Timothy Collingwood QC acted for the petitioners in an unfair prejudice petition in which he succeeded in obtaining an injunction to restrain the continuation of disciplinary proceedings concerning disputed allegations of misconduct pending resolution of the Petition ([2020] EWHC 23 (Ch)).
Read MoreArea of Law: Company
Jonathan Adkin QC acted for a number of dissenting shareholders in two high-value company share appraisal actions arising under s.238 of the Cayman Islands Companies Law. In Re Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd he appeared in a three-week trial in the Grand Court of the Cayman Island for the determination of the fair value of a Chinese web-based travel company's shares. In Re: Nord Anglia Education Inc he acted in a three-week trial in the Grand Court for the determination of the fair value of shares in the world's leading private school business.
Read MoreArea of Law: International and Offshore
In AF v SF [2019] EWHC 1224 (Fam) Dakis Hagen QC and James Weale acted for a respondent husband who lacked capacity in relation to a substantial financial remedy claim against a suite of ancient and dynastic trusts.
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