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Acuity Law Offices

Acuity Law
EXCHANGE BUILDING
CAMBRIAN PLACE
SWANSEA
SA1 1SH
United Kingdom
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Hugh Hitchcock

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Work Department

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Position

Hugh is a senior partner and shareholder, and a member of our Senior Leadership Team. He heads up the Acuity Litigation and Dispute Resolution department, comprising Commercial Litigation, Property Litigation and Construction Litigation.

Before joining Acuity, Hugh gained a wealth of experience as a partner/director at a boutique law firm, and in the media litigation department at Frere Cholmeley Bischoff, where he acted for an array of notable clients including Elton John, Sting, and The Beatles’ record company.

Hugh works both nationally and internationally with clients on a wide range of commercial litigation cases. He has vast experience in high-value contractual claims against large national firms, recovery claims and minority shareholder claims. He has also practised in the niche area of defamation and has had notable successes against several national newspapers.

Hugh has consistently been noted in The Legal 500 as a tenacious litigator with successful reported results against national and international firms.

Expertise:

  • Commercial contract disputes
  • Director and shareholder disputes
  • Professional negligence
  • Contentious insolvency and antecedent transaction claims
  • Defamation, privacy and reputation management
  • All types of injunction proceedings
  • Intellectual property disputes

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Wales > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation

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Hugh Hitchcock – Acuity Law

The ‘partner-led’ team at Acuity Law provides a ‘commercial service’ to local, UK-wide and international corporates across a broad swathe of commercial litigation, ranging from shareholder and commercial contract disputes to public procurement and construction matters. Clients also benefit from access to a range of useful internal products, including Litigation Funding Assist, which affords clients the opportunity to achieve favourable rates via the firm’s arrangements with various litigation funders. Swansea-based partner Hugh Hitchcock brings a high degree of commerciality to the table as a result of his vast experience handling both corporate and media-related disputes and is noted for his ‘practical, pragmatic and pugnacious’ approach. ‘Brilliant in the detail and strategy’, Cardiff-based Aisha Wardell co-heads the team alongside Hitchcock and is noted for her ‘calm and considered approach’, including in the context of arbitration proceedings.

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