Alternative Dispute Resolution lawyers

Daniel Sheehan

Partner

Fieldfisher

Daniel Sánchez

Partner

OLIVARES

Dario Milo

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Darragh Killeen

Browne Jacobson Ireland LLP

Darren Willans

Darren Willans has been a director of Werksmans Attorneys since 2009 and is part of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice areas.

Werksmans Attorneys

Daryll Ng

Daryll is a partner at Virtus Law and also heads the Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance dispute resolution practice in Singapore. He specialises in marine and commercial dispute resolution. Qualified to practice both in Singapore and the UK, Daryll has appeared at all levels of the Singapore Court and has acted in numerous arbitrations and mediations.

Virtus Law LLP

Dave Boolauky

Head of Dispute Resolution, Mauritius

Bowmans

David Bondt

Partner David specialises in commercial litigation. He is noted by clients for handling sensitive, complex and urgent cases with a strong mix of tenacity and commerciality. David helps clients deal with a broad range of disputes including breach of contract claims, shareholder disputes and professional negligence claims. His practice covers general commercial litigation in both the County Court and the High Court including experience in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. David advises clients in relation to intellectual property matters including contentious trade marks disputes, passing off, copyright, databases, designs, patents and disputes involving confidential information. He regularly advises clients in the High Court and IPEC (Intellectual Property Enterprise Court) including obtaining urgent injunctive relief. David has particular expertise dealing with Trust and Probate claims. His practice includes trust disputes, making and defending claims brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, challenging and defending wills, disputes over co-ownership of property included in an estate, claims arising against Executors and professional negligence claims against solicitors and will writers. Recent Experience Bringing a multimillion-pound claim on behalf of a national retailer for breaches of their trade mark, copyright and passing off. Obtaining urgent injunctive relief for a property developer client to restrain breaches of confidential information by a former employee. Defending a substantial multi-million-pound claim for complex breaches of contract and implied terms relating to the Oil and Gas industry. Advising on a high value shareholder disputes including a claim for an Unfair Prejudice petition and relevant arbitration procedures. A £200m case brought against one of the UK’s largest ecommerce business. Defending a £40m claim brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Acting for the claimants in a multi million pound trust dispute described by the Judge as “the single most complex and challenging case he has ever seen in his career”. Advising on cross border I.P disputes including enforcement of judgments. All forms of ADR, particularly mediation and arbitration.

Orwins

David Bowman

Legal Director - Litigation National

Weightmans LLP

David Crockford

David is a Partner in our Real Estate Disputes team. David has more than a decade of experience in real estate disputes and previously created and managed a large specialist regional team. He provides clear strategic advice to his clients across the entire property sector and at all stages of transactions. He focuses on ensuring that as few disputes as possible arise for his clients but where they do, are litigated proactively and successfully. David deals with a wide variety of real estate disputes and has specialisms in right to light matters, issues concerning development of land including dealing with overage and portfolio asset management work and lease renewal proceedings, dilapidations, applications for consent, forfeiture and disputed rent reviews. He has a particular interest in working to resolve potential and actual litigious issues on development land and at business premises to facilitate construction and redevelopment. He also enjoys portfolio work for clients, where solutions need to be tailored not only to the property but to the client’s broader real estate needs. David has acted across all levels of the Court and Tribunal process. He also has considerable experience working on disputes where clients need solutions that require the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He has expertise in resolving disputes concerning land that is being used for the purposes of biodiversity net gain or nitrate mitigation, which include supporting those considering such schemes to avoid litigation pitfalls, enforcing breaches and resolving disputes using ADR. David is the Chair of Property Litigation Association on the South Coast. He also regularly facilitates and delivers training to clients and colleagues.

Hamlins LLP

David Farnell

David is a financial services disputes solicitor with more than 30 years’ experience, both in private practice and in-house (at RBS and CYBG). He has acted for many banks and other commercial lenders, principally those engaged in asset finance. David often helps recoveries managers or in-house counsel to formulate an early strategy for avoiding litigation. Such advice may concern an individual facility or lease, multiple agreements or portfolio management. When litigation is required, David pursues the process best suited to achieving the client’s desired outcome quickly and cost-effectively, using forms of ADR where appropriate. Common issues that David deals with include civil fraud, contractual termination, cross-border/jurisdiction, delivery-up or preservation of goods, enforcement of related security, guarantees and indemnities, quality of goods and services, broker/alleged secret commission, title disputes, liens and wrongful interference with goods. He also takes action to enforce settlement agreements and judgments, both in England and overseas.

Keystone Law

David Feist

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Gwillim

David is a construction lawyer and solicitor advocate of the Senior Courts, specialising in resolving disputes through arbitration, mediation, adjudication, expert determination, and complex litigation. He has expertise in risk management, dispute avoidance, and resolution for a broad range of clients involved in building and engineering projects worldwide. David also represents clients before the courts and professional bodies such as ARB and RIBA. David also advises on crisis and reputation management and his experience covers fatalities, construction collapses, and urgent court applications for injunctive relief.

Keystone Law

David Hitchcock

Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution

TWM Solicitors LLP

David Kessaram

Senior Counsel

Cox Hallett Wilkinson Limited

David Leibowitz

David is a Partner in Dispute Resolution department. He is an insolvency litigation specialist. David acts regularly for banks, insolvency practitioners, trade creditors, directors, shareholders, the Insolvency Service and foreign lawyers on both domestic and cross border insolvencies. He has extensive insolvency litigation experience, in particular in the context of fraud, cases concerning validity of security, asset recovery, guarantees, director’s duties, office holders duties, transaction avoidance and disqualification proceedings. He has particular expertise in restructuring and insolvency assignments in the insurance and financial services industries and the interaction between FSMA and the Insolvency Act. David is a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the R3 Education Committee. He is a consultant to Oxford University Press and is on the Consulting Editorial Board for LexisNexis and is recognised by both Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in insolvency law. He lectures regularly on insolvency litigation and related topics and is the co-author of the Administrations chapters in the current edition of Tolley’s Insolvency Law. David has recently been appointed by the Ministry of Justice onto the Insolvency Rules Committee. David sits on Consulting Editorial Board for LexisNexis, the Education Committee of R3 and is a peer reviewer for Oxford University Press on restructuring and insolvency publications. He also sits on the Insolvency Rules Committee, appointed by the Ministry of Justice

Mishcon de Reya LLP

David McGuire

Partner - Litigation National

Weightmans LLP

David Toulmin Van Sittert

David specialises in complex and high value defendant clinical negligence claims representing both general practitioners and consultants.

Browne Jacobson LLP

David Weare

Partner – Head of Construction & Engineering

Fladgate LLP

Davide Pozzoli

Counsel

Greenberg Traurig

Davranbek Ahmatov

Managing Partner

PraeLegal Uzbekistan

Dawn Wong Keng Jade

Position: Partner Practice Areas: General Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Corporate & Securities Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring, Real Estate & Property, Utilities, Infrastructure & Construction. Dawn practises in the field of civil and commercial litigation, with a focus on construction-related disputes. She has acted for and advised major developers, contractors, architects, and engineers in litigation, arbitration, and adjudication proceedings and is familiar with all major standard forms of construction and consultancy contract, including PAM, PWD, CIDB, and IEM forms. Dawn is also experienced in contract administration and the drafting and negotiation of project documentation. Quite apart from construction-related matters, Dawn has also handled company and shareholder disputes, defamation claims, contentious probate disputes, restructuring and insolvency proceedings including judicial management, abuse of dominance claims in the aviation sector, and disciplinary proceedings held before the Investigation Committee of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Steven Thiru Advocates & Solicitors

Deborah Evelyn Panjaitan

Partner

AFS Partnership

Debra Burton

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP