Ashurst is recognised as having a leading commercial litigation
practice across Europe. Commercial disputes are at the heart of our
litigation practice, and over the years we have acted for many
leading international companies in complex disputes across all
industry sectors. We have specialist litigators operating out of
all our European offices.
We have acted in matters in the following fields:
- mergers and acquisitions: disputes relating to public and private
deals;
- equity capital markets: disputes arising from IPOs and other
offerings;
- joint ventures: disputes arising from shareholder agreements and
deadlocked joint venture companies;
- professional negligence: accounting, banking, tax, legal and
surveying negligence cases;
- commercial: insurance, sale of goods, pensions and employment
disputes;
- technology, media and telecommunications: all contentious
contractual and regulatory matters;
- shareholder claims: requisitions for the removal of directors and
unfair prejudice petitions;
- public and administrative: judicial review; and
- tax: tax-related litigation and tribunal work.