A ‘fantastic firm with quality from top to bottom’, Withers LLP is ’very well placed to deal with commercial disputes’. The sizeable practice represents family offices, HNW individuals and large corporate entities in multi-jurisdictional disputes, including asset recovery and enforcement matters, and contract, company and financial services disputes. The team is also highly experienced in disputes involving fraud, white-collar crime, professional negligence, insurance, and insolvency. It is additionally experienced in challenging decisions through judicial review claims. Company disputes specialist Peter Wood is global dispute resolution CEO and the ‘excellent’ Stephen Ross is civil fraud head. Roberto Moruzzi is an expert in domestic and international contractual disputes, mis-selling claims, fraud and asset tracing and Andrew Wass is also experienced in financial mis-selling work. The practice further showcases Eleni Polycarpou, who acts in commercial litigation claims alongside her commercial arbitration work, commercial disputes practitioner Sinead Harris, and financial services, banking and corporate litigation expert Henry Farris. Lesley Timms is experienced in contractual and shareholder disputes, and fraud and asset recovery matters. ’Great strategist’ Tatiana Menshenina is a specialist in disputes involving Russia, Ukraine and the wider CIS region. Daniel Gore, Joshua Swift and Ruzin Dagli are also experienced litigators.
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- ‘Withers is a fantastic firm with quality from top to bottom. They have a strong international presence and are very well placed to deal with commercial disputes. Strongly recommended!’
- ‘Knowledgeable, on top of issues, thorough, responsive, respectful, and diplomatic. Punctual and will send follow-up chasers. The team is also multilingual, and incredibly efficient at managing very difficult time differences. They also have cross-subject expertise, which is very important, and they all operate very effectively.’
‘Very effective litigators with a collaborative approach. Partners and associates work well across multiple offices. Communication is excellent, and there is real depth of knowledge and experience. ’
‘Tatiana Menshenina is a great strategist. She never loses sight of the bigger picture and is extremely knowledgeable about particular issues that can arise in connection with Russia and Ukraine-related disputes (including sanctions).’
- ‘A standout partner is Lesley Timms who is very competent and a pleasure to work with.’
‘Eleni Polycarpou is a fabulous strategist and incredible manager of very complicated global litigation - works very quickly in fast-moving cases.’
‘Stephen Ross is excellent. He is very experienced in fraud claims, and maintains a very calm head in challenging moments.’
‘Daniel Gore is definitely one to watch. Knowledgeable and committed, he drives cases forward. Ruzin Dagli is a commercial litigator, who is thorough and incisive and very well versed in procedure. She works all hours to get a result.’
Clients clés
- Blackmoor Investment Partners
- The Family (Holdings)
- The Family (Fellowship)
- The Family (Consigliere)
- The Family (SPV-III)
- The Family (SPV-III BIS)
- The Family (SPV-III TER)
- The Family (Global Godfathers)
- Church Bay Trust Company
- Transomas
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Responsable de la pratique
Peter Wood
Autres avocats clés
Roberto Moruzzi; Andrew Wass; Stephen Ross; Eleni Polycarpou; Lesley Timms; Tatiana Menshenina; Sinead Harris; Henry Farris; Joshua Swift; Ruzin Dagli; Daniel Gore