Dispute Resolution
Things Do Go Wrong
Even the best run businesses can find themselves involved in disputes whether with their customers, suppliers, advisers or as a result of contention within the business itself. Dealing with disputes ties up valuable management time and can damage reputation and commercial relationships.
Strategic Approach
We will work with you to quickly get on top of the issues associated with your dispute and help you to devise a strategy to achieve an outcome which is aligned to your commercial objectives as well as being realistic and cost effective. We offer transparency on costs and a range of funding options.
Flexibility and Commitment
We are committed to mediation, arbitration and other means of alternative dispute resolution. We are also formidable litigators.
The Benefit of Hindsight
There are often steps that can be taken to avoid the most common forms of dispute or to place yourself in an advantageous position should a dispute arise. We will work with you to implement those steps and to reduce the risk of similar disputes occurring in the future.
Key Services
- Supply of goods and service agreements;
- Business sale and purchase agreements;
- Partnership agreements;
- Shareholder agreements.
- Shareholder's disputes;
- Director's disputes and breach of duty claims;
- Franchise disputes;
- Warranty claims.
- Professional negligence claims
- Restrictive covenant litigation
- Injunctions and emergency remedies
- Property litigation
- Landlord and tenant disputes;
- Dilapidation claims;
- Contested lease renewal proceedings;
- HM Land Registry adjudications;
- Possession proceedings;
- Forfeiture claims;
- Covenant litigation.
- Defamation and malicious falsehood claims
- Constructions disputes
- Intellectual property disputes
- Breach of copyright claims;
- Infringement of trademarks, patents and design rights.
Recognition & Accreditation
Chambers UK, 2012
"Serious commercial litigator", "completely uncowed by larger London firms." One client marvels at the panache with which [Langleys] "steered our plan of defence and made a fantastic counterattack."
The Legal 500, 2011
Within Commercial litigation: Elsewhere in the East Midlands, Langleys is a third tier firm.
In addition to handling professional negligence, shareholder and director disputes and judicial reviews, the team at Langleys has been active in contentious property matters. Graeme Stenson obtained relief from forfeiture for a tenant in a Court of Appeal judgment.
The Legal 500, 2010
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The increased team at Langleys has seen a rise in a range of instructions across the corporate and private client spectrum ranging from debt collection, boundary and contract disputes, negligence cases, shareholder disputes (including one resolved by payment of £2.5million to an unfairly prejudiced shareholder), and insurance claims.