Commercial Litigation lawyers

Elliot Aron

Elliot is an advocate and counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation group. He advises international and local clients on a wide range of contentious matters, specialising in complex and high-value commercial and trust disputes. Elliot is an experienced litigator in both domestic and foreign courts and has worked extensively on cases with challenging international and cross-border elements.

Carey Olsen

Elliot Rosner

Principal

Offit Kurman

Elliott Phillips

Elliott is the Founding Partner of Signature’s Gibraltar office. He is an internationally recognised barrister and specialises in offshore contentious trusts, estates and private wealth disputes. His practice also includes commercial litigation, civil fraud, asset tracing, insolvency and shareholder disputes. His dual qualification as a barrister in England and Gibraltar places him in a unique position, enabling him to accept instructions to appear before all Courts in England and Wales. Primarily based in Gibraltar, Elliott is regularly instructed by leading international firms in which Gibraltar proceedings are issued or where there is a strong Gibraltar connection to the litigation. Elliott has considerable experience in the area of contentious trusts and appears regularly before the Chancery Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council on matters relating to the administration of trusts. Elliott’s cases involve removal of trustees, protectors and executors, challenging trustees’ decisions, breach of trust, advising trustees and beneficiaries on freezing orders, in both domestic and in support of foreign proceedings, as well as advising on trusts in the divorce context. Beyond his chancery/commercial work, Elliott led a team in Gibraltar’s first ever abuse of dominate position claim under the Competition Act 2020 and related regulatory appeals up to Gibraltar final appellate level before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Elliott is also a proponent of pro-bono and has led the advocacy on behalf of many families in the context of inquests involving, health authorities, the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Navy, the Prison Service and law enforcement agencies including successfully securing a verdict of unlawful killing. In 2015, Elliott was duly elected as a Member of Parliament in Gibraltar and served as the Shadow Minister for Justice between November 2015 and November 2017 and as HM Leader of the Opposition from 4 December 2017 to 19 October 2019. Elliott was re-elected in 2019 for a further four years and currently serves as Shadow Minister for Health and the Environment. Elliott retired from front line politics in October 2023. Elliott is a Barrister at Law in Gibraltar and admitted as a regulated foreign lawyer in the UK.

Signature Litigation LLP

Ellrico Parulian Situmorang

Ellrico Heads the Dispute Resolution practice in PSHP Adrem and he specialises in the areas of arbitration, commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy and restructuring.

PSHP Adrem Law

Emad Elhabbak

Senior Legal Advisor

SAT & Co.

Emanuel Băncilă

Senior Partner, Leader of the tax controversy practice

Bancila, Diaconu ?i Asocia?ii SPRL

Emil Andersson

Harvard Law School alumnus Emil Andersson works as an arbitrator and litigator specialising in national and international commercial disputes. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Swedish Bar Association. In recent years, Emil’s practice has focused on disputes involving construction, IP and tech, insurance, and non-contractual damages. Emil has extensive experience as an arbitrator under the SCC rules and in ad hoc arbitrations, as well as representing clients in complex civil cases. He lectures on contract law, mediation and negotiation techniques and is an author with Norstedts Juridik.

Advokatfirman Delphi

Emil Bivolaru

Emil Bivolaru is Executive Partner at NNDKP. Over the course of a career spanning 25 years, Emil has represented key players in various industries before Romanian courts of justice and arbitration courts, specializing in complex tax disputes, administrative and urban planning conflicts, arbitration and commercial disputes as well as restructuring and insolvency matters. He regularly coordinates high-profile cases for clients active in industries such as oil and gas, real estate and construction, banking and finance, insurance, industrial and manufacturing or technology. Emil advises extensively on tax litigation, tax inspection and tax evasion cases and has successfully represented clients in challenging tax controversies, with hundreds of millions of euros at stake. His expertise also extends to debt recovery and distressed debt disputes, real estate disputes and cases related to the civil implications of white-collar fraud.

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen

Emilie Danglades-Perez

Emilie is a managing associate in the Dispute Resolution group in Paris and is specialised in Data Protection and Privacy. She has provided advice to a wide range of clients within the course of their GDPR compliance plan. She has also provided practical assistance to handle data subjects access requests, personal data breach, and complaints relating to infringement of privacy regulations. She has assisted in advising clients from various sectors to develop innovative and digital tools in compliance with privacy regulations, Internet users rights and consumer law. She has also helped in implementing digital marketing projects in accordance with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements. She has a significant experience in the Life Sciences sector where she assists pharma and medical device companies in their projects involving digital therapeutics and Big Data. She also provides assistance for the development of clinical trials in France and in Europe in accordance with privacy regulations. She is also specialised in commercial and product liability litigation, and represents French and foreign companies before civil and commercial courts.

Simmons & Simmons

Emilie Vasseur

Partner

Mayer Brown

Emily Aggett

I’m a Senior Associate in the Commercial and Regulatory Disputes team. I advise local, national, and international clients on a wide range of commercial and contractual disputes, high court litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Alongside my general commercial litigation work, I specialise in advising clients on data protection law and compliance issues, in relation to complex Subject Access and Freedom of Information Act requests, data breach situations and data sharing arrangements including as part of due diligence for corporate and property transactions. I am a French speaker and experienced in French law having studied Law with French at University including a year studying law at university in Bordeaux. Once a qualified lawyer, I worked on several occasions in the Paris office of a global, commercial law firm. At Michelmores, I am involved with maintaining and strengthening the relationship with our best friend firms in France. Outside of work, I volunteer with the National Youth Advocacy Service as an Independent Volunteer Visitor which involves being a trusted friend for a young person in care in Devon. I am passionate about raising the profile of Volunteer Visiting amongst the business community in order to recruit more Visitors for looked after children in our county. Expertise Commercial Data Protection & Privacy Education International Arbitration Partnerships/LLPs Professional Negligence Public Sector Technology & Innovation Emily Aggett - Senior Associate - Commercial & Regulatory Disputes | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Emily Chick

Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department Experience Handling a wide range of contentious intellectual property work such as instituting and defending trademark / copyright / patent / registered design infringement claims and applications for cancellation of existing registrations; advising on domain name dispute; handling claims against passing off; representing clients in their applications for interlocutory injunctions to protect their intellectual property rights Extensive experience in handling property disputes; representing clients in the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal in various property disputes involving arguments on land title and forfeiture of deposit Wide experience in banking litigation; acting for local and international banking corporations and advising on various aspects of banking practice; instituting proceedings and taking enforcement action to recover securities Handling a wide range of contractual disputes, including shareholders' disputes and international trade disputes Advising on enquiries and investigations by the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Commercial Crime Bureau Handling bankruptcy and winding-up cases; advising creditors and liquidators on insolvency matters; acting as liquidator and trustee-in-bankruptcy

Gallant

Emily Hansen

Partner

Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson

Emily Hughes

Emily Hughes is a litigation partner in Kirkland's Washington office. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, and the arbitration of complex commercial disputes. Emily has represented Fortune 500 companies in a variety of complex commercial and class action litigations involving contract disputes, fraud and fiduciary duty claims, securities fraud, shareholder derivative suits, and bankruptcy matters. She also routinely advises and counsels private equity and corporate clients on litigation risks associated with deal structures and targets.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Emily Nicholson

Emily is a Partner in Mishcon Private. Her practice centres on complex commercial cases and she acts for a wide range of clients including individuals, families, companies and not for profit organisations. She has experience across a range of commercial disputes and in a variety of forums, often acting for international clients in complex and multi-faceted disputes. In particular she has experience in breaches of contract, confidence and fiduciary duty, fraud claims and shareholder disputes. As a key part of her offering, Emily acts as a trusted advisor to her clients - assisting with any dispute that might arise including issues between partners (business and romantic), disputes over gifts/loans, problems involving privacy and data protection or issues with friends and family. Notably, Emily acted for Gina Miller in both of her successful landmark constitutional judicial review cases against the government – the first in 2016 in relation to parliamentary approval of the triggering of Article 50 and the second in 2019 in relation to the legality of the Prime Minister's prorogation of parliament. Emily is a trustee of the Book Bus Foundation, a charity that is working to improve child literacy rates in Africa, Asia and South America by providing children with books and the inspiration and skills to read them.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Emily Ting

Denis Chang’s Chambers

Emma Anderson

Director

Freeths LLP

Emma Flower

TLT

Emma Hughes

Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution, Construction

Anthony Harper

Emma Jeffries

Emma Jeffries is a Principal Associate Solicitor and Costs Lawyer who leads the Commercial Litigation Costs arm of the business. Emma has a wealth of experience in dealing with high value costs claims ranging from catastrophic injury costs, through all facets of commercial litigation and claims proceeding in the Competition Appeals Tribunal. Working with Insurers and Private Clients, Emma provides a true cradle to grave approach on cases, being involved from the outset with the implementation of retainers and reserves/costs estimates, through any costs management process which is required and thereafter dealing with any costs claims at the conclusion. Emma has been instrumental in the building of technology aimed at assisting Clients with the introduction of the new Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime, working closely with the Innovation Department to map all aspects regarding Fixed Recoverable Costs and build a user friendly product to streamline the costs calculations required. Notable cases include: 1. Russian Aircraft Operator Claims/Ukrainian Aircraft Operator Claims – multi billion pound aviation litigation. 2. London & Quadrant Housing Trust & Anor v WPHV Limited (in administration) & Ors (June 2024) –2 day costs management hearing to deal with costs budgets of 6 parties amounting to £21million. 3. Pacific Estate v Akhtar (March 2024) – recovered 89% of costs.. 4. Robinson v Havant Borough Council (February 2024) – recovered over 86% of costs through negotiated agreement. 5. Bocking v Taylor-Perecod (October 2023) – notwithstanding the Claimant’s application to amend the claim form to a value exceeding £10million to escape the costs management regime, the parties engaged on the issue of costs budgets to ensure the same were in place to assist with Client reserving and the forthcoming JSM. 6. Associated Newspapers Ltd v Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd (Cost Budgeting) [2022] EWHC 2767 (TCC) Costs management case whereby the Claimant Solicitors hourly rates were scrutinized and used as a tool by which the Court considered the overall costs budget to be disproportionate. 7. Sultan & Ali v Luton Borough Council (November 2022) – successfully recovered defence costs from Claimants Solicitor when ATE cover withdrawn.

Weightmans LLP

Emma Linch

Emma is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Media & Communications Disputes teams. She has gained litigation experience with specific involvement advising on high profile media, content and publishing matters.

Simons Muirhead Burton

Emma Lowe

Emma is an experienced commercial litigator who advises on high value commercial disputes. Emma has significant experience in acting for large international organisations, PLCs and SMEs as well as private individuals. Emma has particular experience in advising clients in complex contractual, shareholder, warranty, confidential information, professional negligence and pensions disputes. She has represented clients seeking High Court interim injunctive relief, including Freezing Orders and advised on Search and Seizure Orders. She has represented clients in the High Court and has adopted many forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution including mediation and arbitration. Emma also specialises in acting for employers and senior employees in relation to the enforcement of restrictive covenants and has experience of High Court unfair competition actions. She can also advise employers and employees alike in relation to team moves. Emma is a very capable ambitious lawyer and an invaluable part of both the Leeds and national dispute resolution teams. Clients and colleagues continue to praise Emma for her thorough yet common sense approach to litigation. As well as her legal work Emma is also on the firm’s National Equality and Diversity working group, leads the Leeds Office’s inclusion and diversity programme and is one of its mental health and wellbeing champions.

Shoosmiths LLP

Emma Sutton

Associate

LK Law LLP

Emma Wightman

Emma is a Senior Associate in the Litigation and Dispute resolution team in the Belfast office and specialises in various aspects of commercial litigation including banking litigation, contract disputes, secured and unsecured recoveries from consumers, corporations and other commercial entities, defended and complex mortgage proceedings. She also deals with bankruptcy and insolvency actions. Emma acts on behalf of various leading banks, lending institutions, debt purchasers and asset finance companies.

Shoosmiths LLP