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Sydney Mitchell LLP

APSLEY HOUSE, 35 WATERLOO STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B2 5TJ, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0121 698 2200
Fax:
Fax 0121 200 1513
DX:
13054 BIRMINGHAM 1
Web:
www.sydneymitchell.co.uk
Email:
Shirley, Sheldon, Birmingham

Kamal Majevadia

Tel:
Work +44 121 698 2200
Email:
Sydney Mitchell LLP

Work Department

Dispute resolution, insolvency.

Position

Kamal specialises in all types of insolvency, commercial disputes, commercial litigation and financial recoveries. Helping clients to: carry on in business; restructure in order to carry on trading; resolve commercial and contractual disputes by dealing with third parties and/or suppliers; resolve professional negligence claims against surveyors, other solicitors and accountants; financial recoveries of money when companies: default on terms and conditions, default on loan agreements, breach mandates or conditions; realising assets; saving companies as a going concern; advising directors on personal liabilities and consequences of insolvency. Kamal advises and works with the following client sectors: financial institutions including: banks; building societies; secondary lenders; insolvency practitioners; businesses, ranging from SMEs right through to multinationals; owner-managed businesses; international organisations. Clients Kamal has worked for include: MB Plc; KPMG; BDO; West Bromwich Building Society; Smith & Williamson. Recent cases: lead partner in the disposal of assets for the administrators of First Quench Ltd (Threshers etc). Kamal led the Sydney Mitchell team in the disposal of a large number of retail units as quickly and cost effectively as possible; the administration of a group of waste companies, including landfill site and recycling plant. This involved the Environment Agency and effected local and national issues; contractual dispute between a UK supplier and a Dubai national telecoms company; advising an offshore company in respect of $1m loan agreement and commencing arbitration proceedings pursuant to the UNICTRAL rules.

Career

Trained Tollers; qualified 1997; Wragge & Co 1997-03; Hadden/Ansons 2003-06; partner Sydney Mitchell 2006 to date.

Languages

Gujarati.

Member

Regional committee member R3.

Education

Queen Elizabeth’s Boys’ School, Barnet; De Montfort University; Chester Law School.

Leisure

Golf, tennis, rugby, cycling, reading.

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