Commercial

7BR offers expertise across a diverse range of commercial matters affecting corporate entities and individuals at all levels of value and complexity.

At a corporate level, work covered includes all issues affecting SMEs: disputes between corporate entities including sale of goods and contractual disputes; director and shareholder disputes, including minority shareholders’ and derivative actions, breaches of statutory and fiduciary duties, and misappropriation of assets; joint ventures; agency; and partnership.

For individuals, work includes: acting for shareholders and directors and other high net worth individuals; consumer contracts; product liability; professional negligence; domestic building matters; property ownership (TOLATA claims), and claims involving boundaries and rights of way.

7BR has a strong Financial Crime and Regulatory team that can provide advice that complements commercial work where appropriate.

Members appear in the County Court, High Court, and appellate courts, conduct mediations, and international arbitrations. 7BR’s wide experience enables members to provide appropriate strategic advice at all stages of proceedings, including the crucial period prior to the commencement of proceedings, and in the use of pre-emptive injunctive relief.

Work covered includes:

• Company Law, Directors and Shareholders
• Partnership
• Sale of Goods
• Business contracts
• Consumer Contracts
• Franchises
• Joint ventures
• Civil fraud
• Asset recovery
• Freezing Orders and other interim relief
• Product liability
• Professional negligence
• Domestic building disputes
• Bailiffs and debt collection
• Insolvency
• Housing

7BR has a strong international presence, closely allied to its Financial Crime and Regulatory Work, dealing in overseas trusts, fraud and conspiracy, and asset tracing, as well as cross-border product liability and negligence claims. 7BR members act in a wide range of offshore common law jurisdictions, as well as cases in Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

Members sit as arbitrators and represent clients in and advise on disputes in financial services, construction, shipping, energy, mining, retail and other sectors, with world leading expertise in complex and high value international arbitrations seated in, among others, London, Paris, Geneva, Singapore and Hong Kong. This work includes significant disputes pertaining to company law, contract law, jurisdictional issues and commercial public law, some of which exceed one billion US dollars in value.