Case Studies
Over the years we have advised on numerous cases covering different areas of fraud. These cases are our experience to help our future clients.
Shareholder dispute
The one with the shareholder with all the control but not the desire to share…
Advised an 50% shareholder in a specialist advisory business in relation to claims of unfair prejudice against the other 50% shareholder. Interesting issues arose in this case to the equal nature of the shareholding and the deadlock between the ...
Advised a co-director and 50% shareholder of a large property investment company in relation to allegations that his fellow shareholder and director had misappropriated and diverted funds for his own benefit unbeknown to the client.
Advised ...
Advised an individual director of a clinical monitoring pharmaceutical business in relation to allegations that they had misled contractors by creating false records and receipts in the performance of their contracts.
The allegations were successfully ...
Breach of fiduciary duties, Freezing Injunctions, Non-Party Disclosure
The one with the joint venture for the benefit of only one business partner
Advice was provided an individual to obtain a non-party disclosure order against banks holding accounts belonging to companies that were part of a joint venture set up to promote a construction product. Those joint venture companies and accounts ...
Financial Crime Compliance & Governance
The one with the consultation about football club owners…
Advice was provided to a leading Premier League football club’s Supporter’s Trust in relation to a submission to the government on its consultation as to corporate governance reforms for privately owned companies. Advice and assistance was provided ...
Advised an individual who had loaned approximately £13,000 to a friend for the purposes of investment in a property purchase. In order to protect the client and apply pressure to the Defendant in an approach with the least cost, the client successfully ...
Breach of trust, Freezing Injunctions
The one where money paid on account but not used for what was intended
Advised an individual in relation to payment of money on account to a third-party agent to purchase precious metal products for him. The agent company thereafter used those monies held for their own purchase in breach of what is known as a “quistclose ...
Shareholder dispute
The one with the manufactured accounts and forecasted future profit.
We were instructed to advise minority shareholders in relation to a dispute with majority shareholders arising from a previous offer to acquire the majority shareholders’ stake in a private company.
The minority shareholders made their offer ...
Acted as a Litigation Friend for an elderly individual seeking recovery from her son who had diverted monies due to the client when managing the estate of her late husband.
The Defendant was acting in his capacity as Executor and breached ...
