Commercial Litigation lawyers

Chuan Thye Tan, SC

Partner, International Arbitration, Appellate Advocacy

Rajah & Tann Asia

Chuck Klein

Winston Taylor

Chun (Jason) Jiang

Founding Partner

Dehehantong Law Offices

Cian Clinch

Cian is a partner in the Commercial & Business team at Hayes solicitors. He advises clients on a wide range of commercial and corporate matters, mainly in the retail, hospitality, advertising and charity sectors. He is highly experienced in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, drafting and advising on terms and conditions of sale and the legal aspects of marketing and advertising campaigns. His corporate work includes advising clients on shareholder and partnership agreements, the sale and acquisition of businesses, and company law compliance matters. Cian has significant experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, with a particular focus on shareholder disputes, contract disputes and enforcement.

Hayes Solicitors LLP

Ciara FitzGerald

Partner

Dentons Ireland LLP

Ciara O’Kennedy

Ciara acts in a broad range of employment, commercial, contractual and tortious disputes. She advises on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues with significant experience in contentious employment matters and in particular resolving complex and sensitive disputes involving the senior executives and employee shareholders, to include the negotiation and drafting of severance packages relating to senior management exits and advising on all aspects of corporate governance issues associated with such exits. Ciara advises on all legal issues arising out of the employment relationship including employment contracts, TUPE disciplinary issues, dismissal, together with partnering with clients to implement remote working and hybrid working policies, tailored to the specific industry needs. Ciara is the Chair of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Employment Committee and is a regular speaker at employment events.

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Ciaran Dearden

Ciaran specialises in commercial dispute resolution and has a breadth of experience including in complex contractual disputes of a technical nature, shareholder and director disputes, professional negligence and in matters of reputation management including the bringing and defending of claims in defamation. Ciaran is recognised as a leading junior lawyer, having been shortlisted by The Law Society as Junior Lawyer of the Year in 2017 and Highly Commended as a Rising Star in the Modern Law Awards in 2018.

Freeths LLP

Ciarán Leavy

Partner, Head of Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Lavelle Partners LLP

Cindy Caranella Kelly

Commercial Litigation; Complex Financial Products Litigation; Plaintiffs' Litigation; Securities Litigation

Kasowitz LLP

Cindy Chen

Associate

Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson

Claire Brown

Partner in the Commercial Litigation department. Claire has experience of handling a broad range of commercial disputes, including within the sporting sector. Such commercial disputes comprise contractual disputes – including for example warranty claims, breaches of restrictive covenants and misrepresentation claims – professional negligence claims, shareholder and partnership disputes and applications for injunctive relief.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Claire Di Patrizio

Associate

CGR Avocats

Claire Gill

Claire is a partner at Carter-Ruck and has over 20 years’ experience as a High Court litigator. Claire’s practice focuses on defamation and privacy, in addition to data protection and protection from harassment. Claire also undertakes complex High Court commercial litigation, including claims for professional negligence and financial mis-selling. MEDIA Claire recently led the ground-breaking litigation against Google which established the so-called ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ in England and Wales. The court ordered Google to delist results about a man’s past conviction from searches against his name, upholding his claim for breach of data protection rights and misuse of private information. The case addressed what the judge called ‘novel questions which have never yet been considered in this court.’ For this, Claire was named ‘Lawyer of the Week’ in The Times newspaper. Claire has worked on a wide variety of cases, including complex libel litigation to trial and in the appellate courts (for example Berezovsky v Fridman, in which a jury awarded Mr Berezovsky £50,000 in damages and Berezovsky v Terluk (in which Mr Berezovsky was awarded £150,000 in libel damages), defending a Twitter libel, and numerous claims against various national newspapers and broadcasters. Recently, Claire acted for Impresa Publishing SA, a leading Portuguese publisher defending a libel claim brought by a Portuguese-Angolan national whose claim was struck out as an abuse of process. Claire’s clients include politicians, celebrities, business people, professionals and academics. She likes to work with her clients to find practical solutions to their problems. She has considerable experience in reputation management, providing urgent trouble-shooting advice pre-publication or pre-broadcast and, often working alongside PR advisors, she gives discreet advice to companies and high-profile individuals on how to deal with unwanted media scrutiny generally. Claire maintains a broad media practice extending to advice on passing off and trade mark infringement and regularly gives lectures and conducts seminars on the subject of defamation and privacy and reputation management. COMMERCIAL Claire has acted on behalf of a large number of individuals and businesses against banks relating to the mis-selling of derivative products. In 2014, she acted for a company in liquidation in a claim for professional negligence against the company’s former solicitors, which resulted in a payment in damages of £10m. Claire is a member of the business advisory board of the School of Business and Law at the University of East London.

Carter-Ruck

Claire Graham

Partner

TLT

Claire Jiang

Claire specialises in both contentious and non-contentious shipping and offshore matters. Claire assists clients in drafting, reviewing, commenting and negotiating various type of contracts in relation to shipbuilding, international trade, offshore construction, transportation, charterparty, bill of lading and other general corporate matters. She advises major Chinese state-owned shipyard groups, including without limitation China State Shipbuilding Corporation Group, China Merchant Industry Holding, COSCO Shipyards, as well as the major international manufacturers and suppliers in the shipping and offshore industry, etc. Claire also has extensive experience in handling international arbitration and court proceedings including LMAA, LCIA, HKIAC, SIAC, and London and Hong Kong court litigations. In addition, Claire has a broad range of experience specializing in handling all post-casualty issues, including without limitation investigations, post-casualty analysis, legal advice, negotiations and litigation. Her clients include the P&I club members within the I&G group and the top H&M insurers and the international shipowners worldwide.

Wikborg Rein

Claire McNamara

Claire is a partner in the firm’s best practice group and a member of the strategy board. As director of knowledge and learning, she is responsible for developing and driving the firm's knowledge management strategy and leading a highly regarded team of knowledge lawyers, knowledge and information professionals and technologists. She guides the learning and development team in delivering and supporting the firm’s training and continuing development programmes. Claire qualified as a construction litigation lawyer in 1999. She has acted for clients across the industry in a broad range of engineering, construction and commercial disputes. successfully concluding cases through negotiated settlements and where necessary at trial including to the Supreme Court. Having established and led knowledge functions at her previous firms, she joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2023. With over 15 years of knowledge management experience, her focus is on using knowledge, technology and project management expertise, to ‘makes things better’ - better for clients, better for the business and better for employees. One of Claire’s main drivers for her and the team is to identify opportunities for the firm to collaborate with clients, to help them deliver their own strategic goals. As a keen supporter of Penningtons Manches Cooper’s ambition to be regarded as the most human law firm and a qualified Mental Health First Aider, Claire works closely with colleagues on the delivery of the firm’s inclusion agenda. She is a qualified solicitor advocate and change management registered practitioner. She is a member of several key networks and committees supporting KM and innovation in the legal industry as well as a regular speaker at KM events and contributes to their advisory boards.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Claire Stockford

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Claire van Overdijk KC

Partner

Appleby

Clare Arthurs

Clare heads the dispute resolution division and is a member of the firm's strategy board. A former commercial and public law litigator, Clare led the knowledge function for the commercial dispute resolution team prior to her appointment as partner in 2021, working across a broad range of specialisms including international litigation and arbitration, group actions, professional negligence, reputation management, and regulatory compliance. In recent years she has played a pivotal role in the introduction of new technology, business improvement and team leadership. Her responsibilities have also included organising training for fee earners and drafting and maintaining the department’s precedent documentation. She has devised and delivered a variety of client facing seminars. Clare is an established author in the legal press, writing for journals such as New Law Journal, Solicitors Journal, Commercial Litigation Journal, the International Bar Association Newsletter and Insolvency Intelligence. She has also edited the CDR department’s publications including client updates, topical ebulletins and the Commercial LiteBites series, which aims to provide clients with important practical pointers.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Clare Mackay

Principal Associate Solicitor | Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution An experienced commercial disputes lawyer, with expertise in urgent injunctions, Clare brings extensive experience to contract disputes. This includes, but is not limited to construction of terms, allegations of breach and misrepresentation. Clare regularly provides companies with commercially astute advice prior to the termination of agreements, so that this step can be taken knowing the implications and the risks. For private individuals, Clare advises on professional negligence claims, predominantly against solicitors, as well as on probate and inheritance disputes. Clare has particular interest in education law, advising schools and universities on sensitive issues including withdrawals and exclusions of pupils, bullying, discrimination and the recovery of unpaid fees. Her education work also includes advice to parents on issues such as appeals against school admissions and pupil exclusions.

SA Law LLP

Claudette Dutilleux

Claudette Dutilleux is a Director in our Dispute Resolution practice with a primary focus on commercial litigation. Claudette is experienced in Superior Court litigation as well as commercial arbitrations and mediation.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Claudia Cheah Pek Yee

Partner

Skrine

Claudia Jackson

Partner

Bowmans

Claudia Moser

Claudia Moser is an Associate in our Dispute Resolution practice. She has experience in construction, administrative and public Law, mining law, evictions, business rescue and insolvency, commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution infrastructure.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr