Dispute resolution

Acting for claimants and respondents in arbitration before theInternational Chamber of Commerce, London Court of International Arbitration, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Singapore International Arbitration Centre and Dubai International Arbitration Centre, enforcements of awards, application for stay of proceedings and challenges on the jurisdiction, on grounds of bias and on errors of law.

Claims for misrepresentation under Commercial Agency Regulations and claims for damages and injunctive relief in relation to agency and distribution agreements.

Claims for damages and specific petitions.

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) cartel investigations and consequent director disqualification applications.

Claims relating to shareholder agreements, unfair prejudice, injunctive and declaratory relief and derivative claims. Claims relating to compulsory retirement and exits.

Claims to enforce foreign judgments and orders.

Claims for breaches of fidelity, fiduciary and statutory duties, breach of confidence, enforcement of garden leave and post-termination restrictions, covenants and team moves.

Claims relating to FX trading and disputes between market traders, customers and brokers.

Advising on, and subsequently pursuing or defending, freezing and civil search orders and the identification and tracing of assets and their recovery/protection. Pursuing and defending such cases across multiple jurisdictions and dealing with the enforcement of court orders, by appropriate applications, to include contempt of court.

Applications for urgent and pre-trial injunctive and other relief (to include freezing, asset tracing and preservation orders).

Claims for payments under insurance contracts and declaratory relief as to non-liability.

Wrongful trading claims, claims for recovery of unlawful distribution and prefectural pay outs, forced dissolution and appointment of receivers and claims for accounts.

Disputes relating to expenses and constructive trusts, acting for trustees, protectors and beneficiaries.

RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) acts for Alexander Nix in Commercial Litigation – January 2025
Artificial intelligence will be challenged – May 2023
Pandemic insurance claims set for settlement following ruling – January 2021
Delayed, but not cancelled: Company directors’ responsibilities – June 2020
Don’t put your footer in it when it comes to contracts – January 2020
What happens when you only receive part of an enforcement debt? – January 2015
HMRC launches Alternative Dispute Resolution service – January 2014

• Representing Alexander Nix in a case stemming from Cambridge Analytica’s collapse. The court rejected claims against Mr Nix, valued at over £50 million. The case also saw the success of Mr Nix’s cross-claim for $12 million owed by Emerdata. Read more here.
• Successfully acting for a director/shareholder regarding injunctive proceedings arising from a dispute with a fellow director.
• Successful claim for repayment of substantial loans to a borrower for gambling in London casinos. Consideration of Gaming Acts, Consumer Credit Act and allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
• A successful claim in four jurisdictions relating to the misappropriation of assets by a former professional advisor.
• Injunctions and substantive proceedings over allegations of breach of distributorship agreement and misuse of domain names and websites.
• House of Lords negligence case re: duty of care and statutory powers. The local authority applied for an order to close the claimants’ nursing home without notice. The claimants subsequently sought damages from the local authority for breach of duty of care, ending in an ECHR claim, which was settled favourably.
• Successfully acting for a minority shareholder in an unfair prejudice petition relating to shares and property in the UK and Russia. The case settled for a sizeable seven-figure sum.
• Partnership dispute between two surgeons and a lay partner.
• Pursuing and settling substantial complaints of defective goods in an engineering context.
• Successfully acting for shareholder claimants in a double derivative claim involving UK and Hong Kong companies. Seeking injunctions and securing damages.
• Substantial High Court claims for breach of commercial referral agreement.
• Substantial High Court claims for non-delivery of goods by a supplier and damages for deceit.
• Negligence claim against solicitors for failure to advise regarding compulsory purchase orders on acquiring a commercial property.
• Successfully varying an order requiring a wife to disclose her financial affairs and obtaining a freezing order restraining her husband from dealing with specified accounts and mandates, and requiring him to disclose those accounts.

For businesses:

• Corporate insolvency
• Employment law for businesses
• Professional negligence
• Property litigation for businesses
• Regulatory, serious fraud & business crime

For individuals:

• Contentious probate
• Criminal defence
• Dispute Resolution for individuals
• Employment law for individuals
• Family law
• Personal insolvency
• Property litigation for individuals

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