Global competition and increasing regulation mean commercial disputes are increasingly a fact of life. While businesses may turn to litigation as a way of gaining commercial advantage, disputes can be extremely damaging, exposing financial liabilities, injuring commercial reputation and hampering business relationships. In addition, if the dispute is complex, uncertainty can disrupt the planning processes and distract from core business activities.
At Lovells, we offer comprehensive bespoke advice to help you manage the risks and implement the most appropriate and timely solutions. By drawing on our extensive experience, we tailor solutions to meet your business needs. We have advised on a wide variety of disputes and offer detailed understanding of many industries and sectors, broad commercial awareness and in-depth technological and scientific resources.
We assist many well-known UK and international commercial and manufacturing businesses on supply chain, customer/consumer and related disputes in Europe, the US and Asia and advise on matters concerning agency and distribution of goods, including issues of compliance with EU law, arguments on restraint of trade, claims for compensation on termination and related issues such as pre-contractual misrepresentation and the construction of contractual terms.
Our dispute resolution practice is unmatched in terms of its size, international reach and breadth of experience. We have over 300 lawyers who have experience of disputes in over 100 countries around the globe making us one of the largest and most successful practices in the world. Chambers and Partners commented "Lovells' dispute resolution group has established itself as a 'class act' in the realm of commercial litigation."
Our legal, technical and procedural knowledge of dispute resolution is unsurpassed. We practise in many different kinds of domestic courts and tribunals as well as before international tribunals such as the European Court of Justice. In England, over 70 of our lawyers can act as advocates in the higher courts and all our new solicitors are required to obtain the necessary qualification as solicitor-advocates.
In appropriate cases we litigate vigorously, but we also understand the need to resolve disputes swiftly and amicably where necessary to protect commercial relationships. Where litigation is not the best method we will advise clients on options suitable to their needs including mediation, arbitration and other ADR techniques.
The full range of our specialist litigation and dispute resolution areas can be accessed via the links on the left.
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