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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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