Shareholder disputes

Our commercial solicitors have experience dealing with shareholder disputes within companies ranging from small SMEs to multi-national corporations. By providing practical, commercially sound advice, we have successfully helped to resolve many shareholder disputes, allowing the businesses in question to break the deadlock and focus on their objectives and goals for the future.

The most crucial element in avoiding shareholder disputes is to have a clear, comprehensive shareholders agreement (this is especially important in the case of minority shareholders).

There are many potentially complex reasons for shareholders to come into dispute with the wider business regardless of size and even the most comprehensive agreement may not prevent disputes occurring, though it should enable quicker resolution.

As with all our dispute resolution procedures, if parties are in deadlock following a shareholder dispute, we will attempt to bring the parties together and offer mediation to resolve the issues. In all but a few cases, this usually brings about an end to the deadlock and a resuming of business as usual.

If mediation fails, and litigation becomes inevitable, our litigation team will move in to work with our commercial solicitors and fight for the resolution your desire with competence and professionalism.