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Commercial litigation: Birmingham

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Irwin Mitchell

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Irwin Mitchell‘s commercial dispute resolution team provides a comprehensive service, with specialised teams handling disputes in the sport, manufacturing, and consumer sectors. Furthermore, the practice evidences strong capabilities in the financial services sector, especially in relation to FCA regulatory and enforcement issues. The team benefits from the joint leadership of Garon Anthony and Katie Byrne, with Katherine East providing key support to the team.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘A strong ability to cover a range of areas relating to commercial litigation, including financial services and employment expertise.'

  • 'Garon Anthony - Expert knowledge, clear and concise delivery of information, always acting within a timely matter with our best interests at heart.'

  • ‘Katherine East - a star in the making, surely will not be long before she makes partner.’

  • ‘Katherine East is a first-rate litigator with excellent technical knowledge and experience.'

  • ‘Katherine East works particularly hard to achieve clients' objectives, guiding them through the litigation process in the best way possible.’

  • 'Garon Anthony provided efficient and commercially minded advice.'

  • 'Having dealt with Garon Anthony and his team I wouldn't go hesitate to recommend their services. Garon and his team went above and beyond providing regular updates and provided excellent advice throughout the process.'

  • 'Concise and efficient UK law support'

  • 'A hard working team, with a good blend of technical expertise and client focus.'

  • 'A strong ability to cover a range of areas relating to commercial litigation, including financial services and employment expertise.'

Key clients

  • Professional Independent Advisers
  • Hadley Industries
  • Gravity Fitness
  • Offside Limited
  • Reconomy Limited
  • Kinstellar SPARL

Work highlights

Defended 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.
Represented Hadley Industries in High Court proceedings brought by a customer that concern tooling products manufactured by Hadley for a significant number of customers.
Advised Offside Limited in a cross-border dispute (UK and Italy) concerning the recovery of £16m misappropriated in a Ponzi scheme.

Practice head

Katie Byrne; Garon Anthony

Other key lawyers

Katherine East