Experience

Gatwick Airport

Securing an urgent injunction from the High Court in under 36 hours from instruction for Gatwick Airport, UK to prevent extremely disruptive threatened protestor action from environmental activist groups. Our team also secured a renewal of the injunction to provide continuity in protection

The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery

Acting in the high profile dispute between neighbouring flat owners at Neo Bankside and Tate Modern, London, concerning overlooking from a public viewing gallery. The case raised untested issues of private nuisance and human rights

Gamma Real Estate Capital

Obtained the dismissal with prejudice of the remaining lender liability claims against its clients Gamma Real Estate Capital and its affiliates in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The decision is an important victory for lenders

Bank of Scotland

Successfully defending a claim against Bank of Scotland plc for alleged breach of good faith terms of lending facilities and alleged forced sale of property assets. The value of the claim was in excess of £120 million. Our team secured an order for the claimant to pay our client's costs on an indemnity (enhanced) basis

UBS

Advising in its entirely successful heavily contested multi-party Court claim for the recovery of lender debt from Vijay Mallya (Bankrupt) by enforcement against a fixed charge in UBS's favour held over residential property in London. The amounts recovered exceeded £23 million and included all of UBS's legal costs

Almacantar

Advised on the completion of a conditional agreement for a 999-year lease of very valuable prime Central London premises on the corner of Marble Arch and Oxford Street, London W1, pursuing the matter to a remote summary judgment application hearing in the High Court, and winning specific performance of the lease completion, and outstanding sums due to our client under the agreement for lease

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