Commercial litigation

Our award winning litigation practice has a market leading reputation and is highly respected by clients and peers alike.

We handle all aspects of litigation and arbitration, including financial and banking disputes, recovery and insolvency, professional indemnity, intellectual property, information technology, construction and engineering, fraud and asset tracing, property disputes, trust litigation and business investigations and regulation.

We are highly respected among our peers.  In addition to the firm’s own clients, we are frequently referred work by top international law firms when they are faced with conflict situations.

We have acted in many of the UK’s top litigation matters in recent years, including Maxwell, Lonrho/Fayed and Kuwait Investment Authority/Grupo Torras. Indeed, we acted in six of the top 10 ‘disputes of the decade’, as identified by Legal Business magazine.

We won the Legal Business 'Dispute Resolution Team of the Year' award in 2005 for the successful asset-tracing operation on behalf of Westminster City Council against Dame Shirley Porter.  We were also shortlisted by The Lawyer for 'Litigation Firm of the Year', 2009.

We can help you with:

  • Risk assessment and management
  • Financial and banking disputes
  • Recovery and insolvency
  • Professional indemnity
  • Intellectual property disputes
  • Real estate litigation
  • Construction and engineering disputes
  • Trust litigation
  • Information technology disputes
  • Fraud and asset tracing
  • Investigation and regulation
  • International litigation
  • Shareholder and joint venture disputes

Extraordinarily impressive team of tremendous
litigators

Chambers UK 2009

"The kind of top client service that is hard to find"

Chambers UK 2009

"The sheer commitment of Stephenson Harwood is key to its success"

Chambers UK 2010

"Total dedication"

Asia Pacific Legal 500 2009/2010

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