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A shareholder or partnership dispute solicitor will ensure you and your business don’t suffer unnecessary losses.
Internal conflicts can threaten your company’s stability, causing uncertainty, and potential loss of earnings. Our solicitors can help you to resolve disputes, reach agreements, and keep the business running.
FAQs
A shareholder or partnership dispute arises when members breach their agreement or simply disagree on an issue. The impacts of such a disagreement can range from the tiny to bringing down the entire business and its management, depending on the severity.
Examples of shareholder and partnership disputes include:
To contact one of our shareholder and partnership dispute solicitors, please call us on 020 3007 5500.
If you’re looking to enlist the help of a solicitor to resolve a shareholder or partnership dispute, you have likely been unable to do so yourself.
We employ dispute resolution and negotiation tactics such as mediation and arbitration to resolve these kinds of disputes amicably in the first instance.
Should there still be no agreement, we will assist in launching a litigation process to ensure your business and any other business shareholders or partners are protected.
Again, this will depend on the complexity of your matter. It could be as short as 1-2 weeks for straightforward cases that settle after the initial negotiation.
For cases that proceed to the County or High Court, this will depend on the court’s availability and could be anything from 6 months to 2 years from start to end.
Each case is different, which is why we offer an untimed initial consultation, at which stage your solicitor will provide an estimate for:
Should you choose to instruct our firm, we will write to you confirming our fee estimate.
If your case needs to be referred to a court, there may be additional administration fees (printing, bundle assembly and postage), as well as any relevant court fees payable to the court.
Shareholder and partnership matters are not one of those scenarios where you should represent yourself, simply because they can be extremely complicated with severe consequences.
For all shareholder and partnership disputes, we require clients to come in for an initial consultation.
Instructing a solicitor will ensure:Â
To contact our shareholder and partnership solicitors, please call us on 020 3007 5500.
Call, email or provide us with a few details of your matter, and we’ll help you arrange an initial consultation. You’ll get:
We know legal matters can be stressful, but we’re always here to help.
No fee surprises. With monthly itemised billing and a range of fee options from fixed fees to deferred fee arrangements, we’ll help you keep costs down.
No chat bots or lengthy phone menus. Speak directly to a member of our team every time you contact us.
We’ll reply to any questions you have within 24 business hours so you’ll have the information you need to make the right decisions.
What we do
Our untimed initial consultations provide you with as long as you need to speak to a specialist solicitor about your matter.