Irwin Mitchell’s commercial dispute resolution team boasts specialist expertise which spans the sport, manufacturing, and consumer sectors. The practice is also particularly noted for its strength in the financial services space, advising on FCA regulatory and enforcement matters. The Birmingham team is led by Garon Anthony, who has a wealth of experience acting for corporates and clients in the financial services sector.
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- Katherine East is exceptional, providing first-rate, commercial legal advice tailored to the specific objectives of a client's business.
- The team is excellent. My go-to choice in Birmingham.
- Joanna Wilkinson is an absolute star. She is meticulous, commercially minded, and a team player.
- Katherine East has strong commercial know-how and has built client relationships that would be the envy of many partners.
- This firm offers a high-quality but reasonably priced litigation service to its clients, which, in addition to lawyers in its Birmingham office, also draws upon expertise from solicitors in other offices of the firm (including, in my experience, London and Leeds).
- Katherine East has been receptive to understanding how we work, what is important to us, even under great pressure, to both protect our position and fight where necessary, but balance this against the commercial (and complex) position of continuing to trade with other parts of the organization with which there is conflict.
Key clients
- Professional Independent Advisers
- Hadley Industries
- Gravity Fitness (and subsidiaries)
- Offside Limited
- Reconomy Limited
- Kinstellar SPARL (leading law firm in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia)
Work highlights
Defending Gravity Fitness in High Court proceedings in a multi-million-euro cross-border dispute that concerns the enforceability of an alleged parent company guarantee in respect of a lease of a property in Germany and related conflicts of law issues.
Representing European property investment companies in multi-million-pound negligence claims against foreign and UK based banks.
Advising Offside Limited in a cross-border dispute (UK and Italy) concerning the recovery of £16 million misappropriated in a Ponzi scheme.
Practice head
Garon Anthony
Other key lawyers
Katherine East