Settling and resolving disputes out of court to save your business time and money is the goal of our alternative dispute resolution solicitors. Our team are specialists in commercial dispute resolution, and reaching a settlement best suited to your needs is our focus. Through alternative dispute resolution (ADR), we focus on achieving fast and commercially pragmatic solutions that work for your business. Get in touch to see how we can help your business.
Why ADR?
Time is money is a saying that our expert ADR solicitors know well. Every hour spent preparing for court litigation and facing your opponent in court is time lost to achieving your business targets and goals.
The specialist ADR lawyers at IMD Solicitors believe it is best to act fast through ADR rather than litigation. Therefore, we always assess whether ADR is likely to be the quickest and most cost-effective means of resolving your commercial dispute by working with you.
We will give you an honest appraisal of:
- ADR options available to resolve the dispute
- likely costs of ADR so your business can reach an informed decision
- benefits of ADR or litigation
- timescales
- jurisdictional and cross-border issues
The benefits of ADR
Our ADR solicitors will only recommend ADR to you if it is the best strategic option. The benefits of ADR include:
- more flexibility, delivering tailored solutions
- if you want to continue a commercial relationship, you are more likely to achieve this using ADR
- it is confidential it is confidential
- it is quicker and often more cost-effective than litigation
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IMD Solicitors – the right lawyers for your business
As a full-service law firm, our ADR solicitors are here to build relationships with your business. We will work with you to find the best solution in the long term for your business. IMD is not simply here to help you with a one-off transaction or a piece of commercial litigation. Instead, we aim to be the trusted advisor for your business.
IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and several European cities, with many trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters governed by UK or EU law.
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- Multi-jurisdictional dispute involving international consortium of corporate shareholders of a Saudi oil and gas subsidiary, involving allegations of fraud and breaches of contractual obligations. Liquidation of the subsidiary was sought by a proportion of shareholders. Settlement was reached between all and liquidation successfully prevented.
- Dual-jurisdictional dispute involving essentially a battle between conglomerate of companies, with proceedings lodged with various courts across two jurisdictions involving complex jurisdictional and commercial matters.
- Claim against international plc involving defending allegations of fraud. Concluded successfully and saved the Client from insolvency.
- Acting for a Claimant in a dispute with a global payment processing institution, involving misconduct allegations and challenge to jurisdiction. Case settled at over 80% of the amount claimed despite initial arguments and denial by the institution.
- Defended a breach of contract claim involving a cross-border supply of goods. Using strong defence arguments but preserving our client’s commercial position, we managed to resolve the matter through a reduction of the main claim by 75% and potential costs liability by 80%.
- Acted for a construction company in a claim to recover an unpaid contractual fees. Judgment in favour of the Client secured a trial despite little documentary evidence available and relying mostly on witness evidence.
- Represented a company Director in a successfully defended claim involving allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duties
- Acting for a claimant in a construction dispute. The matter proceeded to trial where the Claimant successfully obtained a judgement for the full amount.
- Acting for a defendant who failed to file a defence and had default judgement entered against him prior to instructing our firm. The judgement was set aside and eventually the value of the claim was reduced by 75%.
- Acting for a creditor in a reported High Court case relating to enforcement of a foreign judgement in the UK. Successfully defended an application by a debtor to declare the judgement unenforceable.
- Regularly acting for a group of companies dealing with medical equipment manufacturing and worldwide distribution. Assisting with both contentious and non-contentious cases ranging from commercial and employment to GDPR compliance.
- Represented a Client in a complex shareholders’ dispute concluded by the way of agreement and voluntary liquidation of the company.
- Acting for the UK based construction company in a dispute with a contractors. Settled the claim for circa. 90% of the amount originally claimed.
- Pursuing a claim against a firm of solicitors who have provided our client with negligent advice. Successful recovery of circa 80% of the loss incurred.
- Acting for a large meat supplier in a dispute with the distributor arising due to faulty product being introduced earlier in the supply chain.
- Successfully defending a client from committal to prison, in a private prosecution brought by the insurers of a third party following a road traffic collision.
- Acting in a dispute with the main contractor on a construction project. Successfully recovered our client’s losses incurred as a result of the main contractor and successfully defended all counterclaims that were brought against our client.
- Acting for an investor in a dispute with a trading company. Successfully obtained a judgment for the sums deducted from the client’s account by the trading company.
- Acting for a landlord in possession proceedings. Successfully obtained a court order for possession and evicted the tenant using the court appointed bailiff.
- Acting for a claimant in a Professional Negligence matter, successfully settling the case before trial.
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