Leading Commercial Law Firm
Serving Manchester and Cheshire

Commercial Litigation

Our specialist dispute resolution solicitors provide professional, practical and clear advice to our clients.

If you have a business dispute you will want to win it.

If you cannot win you will want to get the best outcome possible.

Above everything you will want advice about how to deal with the dispute as quickly and as cost effectively as possible to give you time to concentrate on running your business. Early expert legal advice is essential and our team of specialist dispute resolution solicitors has experience of providing professional, practical and clear advice to our clients on a wide range of commercial matters. We promise always to consider what you want to achieve.

Although Court actions still form the basis of most litigation we have substantial experience of alternative dispute resolution such as informal or formal mediation. Mediation ranges from early discussions at “round table meetings” to formal mediation involving the appointment of a professional mediator. We have the experience and flexibility to be able to advise you how best to deal with the matter.

We recognise that you need to keep control of the costs of litigation and be able to budget for those costs. We offer a comprehensive Litigation Cost Scheme which includes arranging Litigation Cost Insurance and where appropriate Conditional Fee Agreements.

Our litigation team has experience of a wide range of issues including:

• Commercial contract disputes
• Property litigation
• Company, shareholder and partnership disputes
• Professional negligence claims
• Commercial debt collection
• Intellectual property and IT disputes
• Insolvency and bankruptcy litigation (including claims against directors and directors disqualification)
• Disputes with banks
• Commercial agency compensation claims
• Defective goods and products
• Liability claims
• Inheritance disputes
• Mediation and Arbitration

The items listed above cover the main areas in which we regularly advise but our commercial experience enables us to advise in connection with most aspects of commercial disputes.

Key Contacts

Tim Norman, Partner
0161 941 4000
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Adam Maher, Partner
0161 941 4000
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Sarah Wellicome, Solicitor
0161 941 4000
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Laura Evans, Solicitor
0161 941 4000
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Testimonial

"It has been my unfortunate burden to have been involved in a number of litigious encounters during the nearly twenty years I have been running my own businesses. In all that time, I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that Adam Maher is by far the best litigator it has been my (dubious pleasure) to work with. Adam is that rare bird – a commercially oriented legal professional. His advice is clear and unequivocal ensuring you only litigate when the prospects for success and the investment of time and money that will be needed are clearly understood. During the litigation process itself, Adam is an Herculean force. He blows away the fog of war keeping his client and more importantly, the other side, clearly focussed on the real shape of the argument. In the many times I have engaged Adam, I have never been anything other than delighted with the outcome"
Gary Nield - Catalyst Management Ltd