Before court. In court. Beyond court.
We assist individuals, entrepreneurs, companies and executives in disputes, negotiations and sensitive legal matters, before litigation starts, while proceedings are ongoing, or when a conflict can still be resolved out of court.
Business and Commercial
Disputes
Most commercial disputes don't begin as legal problems. A delivery gets missed, a partner stops answering emails, someone reads a clause differently than you do. By the time it lands on our desk, the relationship is usually already strained and the contract is being read for the first time in years. The first question is rarely "who's right", it's whether you're better off negotiating, pushing, or both at once, and getting that sequencing wrong is often what turns a fixable problem into an expensive one.
Corporate and Shareholder
Disputes
Money is rarely the real issue here. Control is. A founder falling out with a co-founder, a minority shareholder being frozen out of decisions, a fight over how a company should be valued on exit: these all come down to what's actually written in the shareholders' agreement or articles, which most people haven't reread since the day they signed them. We spend real time on that document before we talk strategy, because it usually decides more than anyone expects.
Post M&A Disputes
These disputes tend to live in the fine print: earn-out formulas, warranty and indemnity clauses, price adjustment mechanics, escrow conditions. The temptation is to argue the deal in principle. We'd rather start with the SPA itself, because a claim that doesn't hold up against the actual drafting won't hold up in front of a judge or arbitrator either.
International Disputes
Cross-border matters bring a fight most domestic ones don't have to deal with: where the case is even heard. Jurisdiction clauses, conflicting laws, the risk of proceedings running in parallel in two countries at once. Get this wrong early and it can decide the outcome before anyone's argued the substance. So that's usually where we start. We represent clients through the full proceedings that follow, commercial claims with parties or assets in more than one country, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, coordinating with counsel abroad when the matter calls for it.
Arbitration
Enforcement and Asset Recovery
European Law
Urgent Measures
Employment
Real Estate and Construction Disputes
An arbitration award is only as good as its enforceability, and that depends on choices made at the very start (the seat, the rules, who sits on the tribunal), long before anyone argues the merits. Get those choices wrong and you can win the case and still walk away with nothing. We act as counsel throughout, from the request for arbitration to the final award and through enforcement if it comes to that: drafting the claim or the defence, handling document production, preparing witnesses, arguing the case at the hearing. We think about the end of the case when we're making decisions at the beginning of it.
Winning is the easy part, sometimes. A judgment on paper is worth nothing until it's turned into money, and that means finding out where the assets actually are and which jurisdictions will help you get to them. We treat enforcement as its own phase of the matter, not a formality tacked on at the end, because a debtor who's had time to prepare is a very different problem from one who hasn't.
EU law shapes business decisions long before anyone thinks of it as legal: competition rules, cross-border data, freedom to provide services. We try to get ahead of it, because the alternative is dealing with it as a dispute later.
Some situations don't leave time to think it over. Assets are about to move, evidence is about to disappear, a decision is about to take effect and can't be undone once it does. In these matters, we work in hours, not weeks, because the delay itself is usually the biggest risk.
Executive departures, non-compete disputes, contested dismissals: these carry a reputational weight that ordinary disputes don't, and handling that badly in public can cost more than losing the case. We work the legal and reputational sides together, not one after the other.
Delays, defects, unpaid invoices. Construction disputes usually involve several parties with different contracts and different incentives: owner, developer, main contractor, subcontractors. Before anything else, we work out who actually carries the risk under that chain of contracts, because that's usually where the real argument is.
Sensitive Matters and White-Collar Issues
Risk Management
These cases often run on two tracks at once: the legal one and the reputational one, sometimes a civil track and a criminal one too. What you disclose, when, and to whom matters as much as the legal argument itself. Discretion isn't an add-on here. It's most of the job.
The cheapest dispute is the one you avoid. We work with businesses before anything's gone wrong: reading contracts, checking governance structures, flagging the relationships that look like they're heading for trouble, because all of this is far easier to fix before it becomes a case.
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A fixed monthly legal support package for SMEs, starting at €999/month (excl. VAT).​
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